Author Archives: raprideaux

Rebecca McLaughlin: Confronting Christianity: 12 Hard Questions for the World’s Largest   Religion, h/b, Wheaton, Crossway, 2019 I have read many books on Christian apologetics but Rebecca McLaughlin has trumped them all with this incisive, delightfully and personally written, searingly … Continue reading →

Cassandra Pybus: Truganini: Journey Through the Apocalypse, p/b,  Sydney, Allen & Unwin, 2020  Cassandra Pybus is descended from Richard Pybus, who having ventured to Australia from England in 1829 was handed a large grant of land on North Bruny Island … Continue reading →

BOOKS READ JANUARY 2021 Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse – Five or The Chidren’s Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death, p/b, London, Vintage, 2000 (1969). Cult anti-war novel made into an equally off beat film centring on the carpet bombing of the German … Continue reading →

BOOKS READ DECEMBER 2020 Alex Miller: Max, p/b, Sydney, Allen & Unwin, 2020 Max is a complete departure for Alex Miller. It is hard core research into the early life of the hard to find holocaust survivor Moses (“Max) Blatt … Continue reading →

Alex Miller:  The Passage of Love, p/b, Sydney, Allen & Unwin,  2017  I  am totally hooked on Alex Miller and have just reread the autobiographical The Passage of Love after first reading it two years ago.  Our book club is … Continue reading →

Andrew O’Hagan: Mayflies, p/b, London, Faber, 2020   Glasgow born Andrew O’Hagan has won applause in Britain and the United States for his thoughtful, engaging and edgy writing. Mayflies is a book about male friendships in two parts. Part 1 … Continue reading →

Marcel Proust: In Search of Lost Time: Volume 2, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower,  Trans. with Introduction and Notes, James Grieve, p/b, Camberwell, Penguin, 2003 (orig.1919) In Volume 2 of Proust’s epic seven volume In Search of … Continue reading →

Heather Rose: Bruny, p/b, Crows Nest, Allen & Unwin, 2019 New novel by prize-winning Tasmanian author Heather Rose who did well with The Museum of Modern Love in 2017. Bruny is  set on Bruny Island  in South east Tasmania in … Continue reading →

Rebecca Solnit: A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in   Disaster, p/b, Camberwell, Penguin, 2010 US Activist journalist, historian and writer has written extensively on feminism, landscape, art and politics. The middle of a Covid19 pandemic … Continue reading →