by Lynette Washington | Apr 10, 2016 | Books, Reviews
Kim Lock (Macmillan Australia) 2016, 320pp, RRP $29.99 Fairlie Winter and Jenna Rudolph are best friends and have been since birth. Their mothers were best friends who lived a few doors away from each other and the young women grew up bonded and inseparable. But all...
by Lynette Washington | Apr 4, 2016 | Books, Reviews
Mick Jackson (Faber) 2016, 240pp, RRP $27.99 Yuki Chan is a Japanese student who travels to the UK to unravel tragic family secrets. Ten years earlier her mother toured Brönte country and left behind a series of mysterious and enigmatic photos which Yuki sees as clues...
by Lynette Washington | Mar 3, 2016 | Adelaide Festivals, Comedy, Reviews
The Garden Of Unearthly Delights – Studio 7, Wed 2 Mar Nazeem Hussain – comedian, failed boxer and brown person – is at his best when he’s pointing out the absurdities of racist Australian culture. Hussain’s take on being brown in a largely white country is on...
by Lynette Washington | Feb 28, 2016 | Adelaide Festivals, Circus & Physical Theatre, Reviews
Gluttony – The Octagon, Sat 27 Feb AERIAL’s White Team opening silk display was adequate but not brilliant. From the audience – which is up close and personal to the performers in The Octagon tent – you could see and feel the mechanics of the teamwork and the...
by Lynette Washington | Feb 20, 2016 | Books, Reviews
Jon Steiner (Spineless Wonders) 2016, 162pp, RRP $24.99 The stories in this collection range from the extremely brief (Gail in which Gail attempts to print some work and fails) to the lengthy (the eponymous The Last Wilkie’s in which Erin is sent to a remote town to...