On Saturday the 14th I attended a couple of sessions at Writers at the Convent, a mini writers' festival run by Reader's Feast Bookstore, at the gorgeous Abbotsford Convent. Unfortunately, the 'Australian Fiction' session with Peter Goldsworthy, Robert Drewe, and Steven Carroll was cancelled, but I skipped the other big sessions and decided to spend … Continue reading Love, Literature and Evolution – Writers at the Convent
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Racists – Kunal Basu
2006, Phoenix, 9780753821503 (Aus, US) The ultimate experiment. A black boy and a white girl, raised equally as savages by a mute Nurse on a desolate island. Her only instruction is to keep them alive. It is 1855, and expert British Craniologist Samuel Bates is debating with French scientist Jean-Louis Belavoix about racial superiority. The … Continue reading Racists – Kunal Basu
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