Top review: Lily and the Octopus
When screenwriter Steven Rowley’s daschund died, he wrote a novel in 100 days to vent his grief. Lily and the Octopus is the result, reviewed here by our editorial assistant, […]
Author Archives: angusdalton
A Wasted Life: An interview with Elspeth Muir
Think of the typical problem drinker, and we usually imagine alcoholics, drink-drivers, underage drinkers and the perpetrators of one-punch attacks. The brother of Brisbane writer ELSPETH MUIR was none of these […]
Top review: The Bricks that Built the Houses by Kate Tempest
Kate Tempest is a spoken-word performance artist, hip-hop musician, and is perhaps Britain’s best young poet. If you know anything about the Sydney Writers’ Festival, you’ll know she’s taking on […]
March cover story: An interview with L S Hilton on ‘Maestra’
Angus Dalton meets UK-based historian, journalist and author L S HILTON as she publicises the most hotly anticipated thriller of 2016, Maestra. ‘My thought on Virginia Woolf,’ Lisa Hilton pauses […]
Interview with Monica McInerney
Born in Australia but now based in Dublin, MONICA McINERNEY chats with ANGUS DALTON about family secrets, the sham cheeriness of Christmas update letters, and Hello from the Gillespies, her […]
