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”
‘The only thing Australian publishers will take a chance on is a cookbook’
Gail Morgan’s first novel is firmly rooted in Australian soil yet it took an English publisher to launch her career…
Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) article 12 Nov 1985
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Mystery, interest flows from diaries
Books within books and fiction woven out of fact are much in vogue at the present. Gail Morgan’s new novel builds a literary mystery an intellectual paperchase, round the primary diary of Captain Cook…
The Adelaide Advertiser article 8 Jan 1994
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Writer publishes book with a bite
Writer Gail Morgan decided the appropriate way to tackle the corporate publishing world was not to. So Gail is now the owner of Frances Allen, a new Australian publishing house …
The Advertiser article by Stephanie Dale
Australian Bookseller and Publisher – Review ’93
This is a clever novel. Nobel prize-winning author Grave Heatherton “the corpse of post war Australia”, lies in state. Continue reading “Australian Bookseller and Publisher – Review ’93”
Publishing tale wags the ‘dog’
Many a writer has experienced that dreadful feeling of sitting across the desk from a publisher awaiting the verdict …
The Sunday Mail article by Sandra McLean
Morgan unleashes savage satire on publishing
If you can’t join ’em, lick ’em. That seems to be Sydney novelist Gail Morgan’s new approach to the dog-eat-dog world of publishing in Australia …
The Canberra Times article by Robert Hefner
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Dog-fighting words and fragrant memories
Chaucer, Erasmus, Pope, Swift, Heller – and now Gail Morgan, scourge from a Sydney inner city convent school …
The Weekend Australian article by Mary Rose Liverani