Our interest group has turned to reading books by Australian writers for this year of 2021. We began the year with reading Peter Carey and in March, early twentieth century Australian writers. Those which our group collectively read for the March 2021 meeting were: Ethel Turner (1870 – 1958) Seven Little Australians Judy and Punch […]
Man Alone by John Mulgan
The book Man Alone by New Zealander author John Mulgan was reviewed in the Newsroom Reading Room website during the week starting 15 March. Here are some excerpts: • Monday : The introduction from Reading Room literary editor Steve Braunias reads: Man Alone is an incredible book …. John Mulgan, the book’s doomed author, dead […]
Family History
Here is a collection of recent links to family history sites, which may be of interest to those interested in this area. Thanks to Yvonne Milbank for sharing these. • March 2021 newsletter of ‘Europeana’ on Women’s History Month https://mailchi.mp/europeana/animating-culture-gif-it-up-is-back-520060?e=6a6de4273e • The NZ Society of Genealogists https://www.genealogy.org.nz/ now has a good set of short videos […]
March 21 Meeting
NZ Country Homesteads: March 2021 Meeting Topic Debra Millar spoke about her writing the book on NZ country homesteads: Homesteads: The story of New Zealand’s grand country houses. You can find information about our speaker Debra Millar on:https://www.pointpublishing.co.nz/about/ An introduction to Debra’s book, is given on her publishing webpage: https://www.pointpublishing.co.nz/books/ Homesteads shares a remarkable […]
Australian Writers Group
At our February 2021 group meeting we read books by the Australian-born author Peter Carey. This website gives much information about each of his books: the story, jackets, reviews and video and TV footage: http://petercareybooks.com/all-titles/ We collectively read these books: Bliss (1981) Oscar and Lucinda (1988) The Tax Collector (1991) True History of the Kelly […]