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An ibis wading through an iridescent oil slick adorns the cover of John Kinsella’s latest short fiction collection. It’s an unnervingly beautiful image of despoliation that captures the uncanniness these 29 stories often summon to mind.
Decades later, her daughter Emma shoots to stardom on the alt-rock scene in LA, partly by discovering unfinished songs her mother wrote and finishing them in her own style. Friction between mother and daughter rises, as long-buried secrets surface from the heady days of sex drugs and rock’n’roll in the ’60s, and Emma learns the price of her own fame.
The convent to which they went, Servants of the Blessed Sacrament in Melbourne, did not allow the sisters to go outside other than to see a doctor and was dedicated entirely to the contemplative life. The counter-point is the success of the 1967 referendum to amend the constitution in relation to the Indigenous population, which was supported by both parties. A timely study that addresses the question of why yes, like sorry, is so often the hardest word.Churchill called Henry V “a gleam of splendour in the dark, troubled story of medieval England”, Shakespeare mythologised him and Olivier mobilised him during WWII.
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