A selection of posts from In That Howling Infinite on books and authors
Fiction
- The Sport of Kings– CE Morgan’s “great American novel”
- Fact or friction = fiction – considering historical fiction
- Go ask Alice. I think she’ll know – celebrating Alice’s 150th birthday
- The Incorrigible Optimists Club – Jean-Michel Guenassia’s debut masterpiece
- Laugh out loud – listing the funniest books eve
- Cuddling up to Caligula – the fictional warm and fuzzy emperor
- Whoar! And Peace (or gone with the balalaikas)
- The last rains came gently – Steinbeck’s dustbowl ballad
- Martin Sparrow’s Blues– a tale the young colony of New South Wales
- The Wild Wood and the Wide World – celebrating The Wind in the Willows
- Exit West – a hejira of hope
- Beyond Wolf Hall (1) – Revolution Road
- Beyond Wolf Hall (2) – Icarus ascending
- Banjo’s Not So Jolly Swagman – Australia’s could’ve been anthem
- One ring to rule us all – does Tolkien matter?
- Lilith – a poem of The Fall by Meniscus Diabetes
Non-fiction
- Sailing to Byzantium – Richard Fidler’s Ghost Empire
- The View From a Balcony in Jerusalem – Journalist John Lyon’s Israel memoir
- Outside looking in– Nick Cater’s The Lucky Culture
- What have the Romans done for us? – Mary Beard’s SPQR
- Getting back to the garden – Tom Holland’s Dominion
- The Magic of Dylan Thomas
- Legends, bibles, plagues – Bob Dylan’s Nobel lecture
- Lost in the rain with no direction home – Dylan’s poem for Woody
- Little Town of Bethlehem – the biography of a famous town
- The Twilight of the Equine Gods – Farewell to the horse
- Dark Deeds in a Sunny Land – poet Judith Wright’s memorial to a forgotten crime
- O Beirut – Songs for a wounded city
- The ballad of ‘the Breaker’ – Australia’s Boer War – Peter FitzSimmons’ biography of Harry Morant
- Ghayath al Madhoun – the agony of an exiled poet
- Muzaffar al Nawab, poet of revolutions and sorrow
- We did not weep when we were leaving – the poet of Nazareth
- A Son Goes To War – the grief of Rudyard Kipling
- I am the enemy you killed – Wilfred Owen’s solemn testament
- 1922 – the year that changed literature
- One ring to rule us all – does Tolkien matter?
- A bridge from past to present – the forgotten memoirs of Alice Duncan-Kemp
- Killing for Country … dark deeds in a sunny land
- Farewell to Old England forever … reappraising The Fatal Shore
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