Kibble and Dobbie shortlists announced13 May, 2009The shortlists for the Kibble Literary award and Dobbie Encouragement award 2009 have been announced.
The After Life: A Memoir by Kathleen Stewart1 May, 2008There’s no doubt in my mind that this memoir is excellent. The prose is literary with a reflective tone, and I enjoyed the fact that this book is not structured with a blow-by-blow commentary of the author’s life.
The Red Room by Kathleen Stewart10 January, 1999Recording the horror of her narrow domestic existence in a secret book, Eleanora, the narrator, tells the reader of an abusive father, now dead, and a cold, controlling mother, very much alive, who refuses to accept her daughter's version of reality.