Roger McDonald, one of my favourite authors, has a rare ability to transport the reader to unfamiliar worlds. For me, he did this most notably in When Colts Ran when I found myself in the Outba...
https://anzlitlovers.com/2017/10/15/a-sea-chase-2017-by-roger-mcdonald/
Roger McDonald is an author whose work straddles the rise of the internet, so it’s his later work which tends to be reviewed online while reviews of his earlier work are hard to find. I’ve...
https://anzlitlovers.com/2015/08/18/the-ballad-of-desmond-kale-2005-by-roger-mcdonald/
I was part way through writing my review of Roger McDonald’s Miles Franklin Award-winning seventh novel, The Ballad of Desmond Kale, when I realised that I hadn’t posted its opening lines. ...
https://anzlitlovers.com/2015/08/11/opening-lines-the-ballad-of-desmond-kale-2005-by-roger-mcdonald/
I am reading Roger McDonald’s Miles Franklin Award-winning seventh novel, The Ballad of Desmond Kale, and amongst other things in this rollicking chronicle of the fledgling sheep industry in Au...
As you know if you read my recent post about the Bendigo Writers Festival, one of the sessions I’m presenting there is The Chronicler of Oz, in conversation with Roger McDonald. I know Roger�...
https://anzlitlovers.com/2015/06/27/shearers-motel-1992-by-roger-mcdonald/