Book review : Mr JW Lewin, Painter & Naturalist

  JW [John William] Lewin was the first professional artist to emigrate to Australia in 1800, not much more than ten years after the first white settlement was established in the “new country”. Encouraged to go by a wealthy patron to collect and...

Books : The World Ornament Sourcebook

  This one’s for all keen surface and graphic designers! The book is a re-release of a two volume set first published in 1888 in Paris by August Racinet, and is principally aimed at artists and designers for use as a reference book. It contains a pretty...

Book review : The Dressmaker – Posie Graeme-Evans

    On the face of it, The Dressmaker is a girly book. Rags to riches, romance and intrigue, and lots of luscious clothes. And in the pages? Well, yes, it’s just what you expect. Although perhaps a little bit less than you expect. Set in London and...

Book Review : Cloudstreet by Tim Winton

    I know sometimes I am waaaay behind the game. I know this book was published in 1991, and I know that far greater heads than mine have critiqued it. But for those of you like me, who have somehow missed out on reading it until now, I would recommend that...

Book Review : The Children – Charlotte Wood

  The Children {Charlotte Wood}     The Children by Charlotte Wood is an intriguing story of a family, as normal as most. ‘As normal as most’ includes the usual collection of an elderly mother coming to grips with prospect of a life alone,...