Cruel Catholic fictions haunt the Sydney childhood of Gail Morgan’s heroine in her most promising first novel, Promise of Rain …
The Observer Article by Valentine Cummingham December 1985
Continue reading “Dreams and Illusions – Promise of Rain Review”
Lovers of musicals will be inspired and entertained by Gail Morgan’s Valentino coming to the Illawarra Performing Arts Centre from November 3 to 11…
By Rebecca Hayter
Continue reading “Fans can swoon again as Valentino returns”
To generalise about culture is to fall into the irrationalities often encountered in the most execrable prejudices. Sometimes it is humorous. Most of the time it kneels at the alter of myth …
All Asia Review Article by Brian Castro 1989 Continue reading “Misreading the Myths – Walk to Kulentufu Review by Brian Castro”
Now I know why so many Catholic Women in Australia have fought their way to the top: those bleak Irish/Catholic primary schools they attend define the war zones of life…
Weekend Australian Article December 1985 Continue reading “News from the War Zone – Promise of Rain Review”
Walk to Kulentufu is not a novel for the faint-hearted. It is an aggressive, tense novel of ideas, full of acute observations and analogies Continue reading “Walking a tightrope”
In this impressive novel a Sicilian migrant, a soapie star and others are seeking the lost journal of James Cook, quotation from which are a sheer delight.. Continue reading “The Weekend Review – The Best in New Books ’93”
Of nobel prize winner author Grave Heatherton we read “Nobody has forgotton her rudeness to the King and Queen of Sweden in the late 1960s, when the prize still mattered, shaking the regal hand and asking if she could get a cleaning job in the summer palace”. Grace is actually a character in Gail Morgan’s impressive novel Patent Lies… Continue reading “The Australian – Comic Plot in a Classic Cooking of the Books”
This is a clever novel. Nobel prize-winning author Grave Heatherton “the corpse of post war Australia”, lies in state. Continue reading “Australia Today – Patent Lies Review”
A rich bend of reminiscence and discovery, disillusionment and hope, this is a startling new novel by a young Australian… Continue reading “Australian Book Review – Promise of Rain”
Gail Morgan observes the growth at her old school. Santa Sabina College. If, as Jane Austen maintains with some irony, that young…
Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) Summer Agenda article 08 Jan 1991
Continue reading “The Bloom of Youth”