Patent Lies, Gail Morgan’s fourth novel, and her first in four years, is that rare beast, a piece of genuine Australian literature…
Courier Mail – Patent Lies article ‘Seriously Australian’ 27 Nov 19934
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Le Chien Andalou – Vogue Magazine Interview
Novelist Gail Morgan has reversed the ‘tradional’ publishing path for writers. After two succesful books, she has decided to publish her third, the surreal The Day my Publisher Turned into a Dog, by herself …
Vogue Magazine Interview by Jamie Grant AUG/SEPT ’89
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It’s a Dog’s Life
In an extract from Gail Morgan’s The Day my Publisher Turned into a Dog, frustrated novel writer Jane Haracre has another run-in with the annoying Delphine …
SMH book review
Valentino – New York Fringe Festival Propoganda magazine
Rudolph Valentino is and always will be known as “the world’s greatest lover.” The New Australian Theatre Company brings to the 2001 New York Fringe Festival a two act original play …
Reviewed by John Jordan
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Harry Messel and cursive writing changed my life – by Gail Morgan
Harry Messel, the Wyndham scheme and modified cursive handwriting wrecked my life, says Gail Morgan, 30, who like many people her age experienced an education suspended between the old and the new…
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Archetypal mix cooks up into a concoction to savour
There is so much microwave , take-away fiction around . The plots are predictable , the words accessible, the tastings immediate. And with a lot already on my plate…
The Canberra Times article 11 Dec 1994
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Morgan Sends a publisher to the dog house (The Sunday Herald)
Beware, this book bites. So much seems at stake in reviewing The Day my Publisher Turned into a Dog. It’s author, Gail Morgan, is savage, and after she skims these words, may be tempted to plot the transformation of this critic into a cat …
The Sunday Herald book review by Kathy Bail
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A Letter from Tom Keneally
Thank you for the chance of reading A Promise of Rain, which I enjoyed greatly. It is a book of range and power, and I am delighted to be able to say so …
The Sydney Weekly – Patent Lies Review ’93
Patent Lies is an engaging satire by Gail Morgan (Allen and Unwin) has three dead characters who rather steal the show… Continue reading “The Sydney Weekly – Patent Lies Review ’93”
Weekend Magazine Book Review – Patent Lies
In search of truth and justice
If you only read one book this summer, make sure it is these two.
Gail Morgan’s Patent Lies and Victor Kline’s Rough Justice are, each in their own way, valuable reappraisals of the Australian way of life and the notion that there could even be such a thing. Continue reading “Weekend Magazine Book Review – Patent Lies”