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”
The Weekend Review – The Best in New Books ’93
Patent Lies
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”
The Australian – Comic Plot in a Classic Cooking of the Books
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”
Australia Today – Patent Lies Review
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”
Australian Book Review – Promise of Rain
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”
Seriously Australian
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
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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