‘Jamaica' wins Colin Roderick Award22 October, 2008Malcolm Knox's novel Jamaica (A&U) has won this year's Colin Roderick Award for ‘the best book published in Australia in the preceding year dealing with an aspect of Australian life'.
The Best of Australian Poetry 2008 by David Brooks1 October, 2008It’s the sixth year of UQP’s ‘Best Australian Poetry’ series, and guest editor David Brooks, whose recent novel was shortlisted for the 2008 Miles Franklin award, invites us to once again sample the cream of contemporary Australian poetry.
The Fern Tattoo by David Brooks **1 July, 2007When Benedict Waters is summoned to an audience with an old friend of his mother’s he is seduced by a labyrinth of stories within stories that span several generations and travel from the South Coast of New South Wales to the Blue Mountains, the Hawkesbury and Sydney.