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”
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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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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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”
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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