Bernadette Brennan Livres

Exploring themes of migration and identity, Brian Castro's writing stands out for its innovative and challenging nature. As an Australian author with roots in Hong Kong, he navigates the fringes of mainstream literature while engaging in deep intertextual dialogues with renowned modernist figures such as Proust, Kafka, and Woolf. His intellectual and ironic style draws parallels with Patrick White, marking him as a significant voice in contemporary literature that resonates with both Australian and European modernist traditions.

Tania Aebe was an eighteen-year-old dropout and barfly. She was going nowhere until her father offered her a challenge. He would offer her either a college education or a twenty-six-foot sloop in which she had to sail around the world alone. She chose the boat and for two years it was her home, as she negotiated weather, illness, fear, and ultimately, a spiritual quest that brought her home to herself....From the Paperback edition.

The anthology highlights the richness of Australian literature through contributions from 25 esteemed writers, both past and present, associated with UQP. It features a blend of specially commissioned fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, exploring profound themes like legacy, country, vision, and hope. This collection not only celebrates UQP's 70 years of publishing but also emphasizes the diverse voices and narratives that shape the Australian literary landscape.

Helen Garner is one of Australia's most important, and some would say, most admired living writers. That admiration is inspired by a sense that she is honest, authentic and fearless in the pursuit of her craft. But Garner also courts controversy, not least because she refuses to be constrained by the rules of literary form. She appears to write so much of herself into her non-fiction, and many of her own experiences inform her fiction. But who is the 'I' in Helen Garner's work? Dr Bernadette Brennan has had access to previously unavailable papers in Garner's archive, and she provides a lively and rigorous reading of the books, journals and correspondence of one of Australia's most beloved women of letters.A Writing Lifeis the first full-length study of Garner's work, a literary portrait that maps Garner's writing against the different stages of her life.