About the Book: Winner of the Miles Franklin Award and recognised as one of the greatest works of Australian literature, Cloudstreet is Tim Winton’s sprawling, comic epic about luck and love, fortitude and forgiveness, and the magic of the everyday. After two separate catastrophes, two very different families leave the country for the bright lights of Perth. … Continue reading Cloudstreet by Tim Winton| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: Franny Glass and Lane Coutell are the perfect campus couple: beautiful, intelligent, their whole lives ahead of them. But on the weekend of the big game, when Franny comes to visit, something goes wrong and tensions begin to surface. Franny’s older brother is Zooey. They come from a sophisticated and highly eccentric … Continue reading Book Review: Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: A classic of alienation and horror, The Birds was immortalised by Hitchcock in his celebrated film. My Thoughts: ‘Something has happened to the birds.’ I have never watched Hitchcock’s film, The Birds, as it’s always been a film I’ve considered far too terrifying for me on account of, well, the birds in it. When … Continue reading Short Story Review: The Birds by Daphne du Maurier| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: Elizabeth Harrower wrote some of the most intense, original and highly regarded novels of the twentieth century. Then she abruptly stopped writing in the 1970s and became one of the most puzzling mysteries of Australian literature. Why didn’t she continue? Harrower gave evasive answers to friends and interviewers, and only since her … Continue reading Elizabeth Harrower: The Woman in the Watch Tower by Susan Wyndham| Theresa Smith Writes
Welcome to this week’s Top 5 Tuesday post. Top 5 Tuesday was created by Shanah at Bionic Book Worm, and it is now being hosted by the lovely Meeghan at Meeghan reads!! For details o…| Wicked Witch's Blog
About the Book: Internationally acclaimed for her five brilliant novels, Elizabeth Harrower is also the author of a small body of short fiction. A Few Days in the Country brings together …| Theresa Smith Writes
