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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…

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On Promise of Rain

"... a book of range and power..."

~ Tom Keneally

On Patent Lies

"Morgan is bravely experimental in her pursuit of ideas and means of expressing them."

~ Melbourne Herald

On Walk to Kulentufu

"Morgans observations contain some sharp truths about the nature of Australia, of culture, politics and relationships . She has written an angry, gripping novel, almost frightening in its intensity. Walk to Kulentufu is a big novel..."

~ Melbourne Herald

On Promise of Rain

".. managed with unhurried grace and a kindly eye for the varieties of Australian silliness. Gail Morgan's feel for the power of traditional story ... impresses and attracts."

~ The Observer