Australian lifestyleWhen Ruth Dawkins’ husband got a job halfway around the world 10 years ago, she wasn’t convinced. But a rosella and a rainbow changed her mind
Get Guardian Australia’s weekend culture and lifestyle email A little over a decade ago, I was living in a small English commuter town, a 40-minute train ride north of London, when my husband was approached about a job in Hobart.
“Hobart?” I said. Read More...
BooksLisa Marie Presley’s memoir to be posthumously published this autumnBook co-written with the star’s daughter Riley Keough promises to reveal ‘the complexity of being a Presley’
The posthumous memoir of Lisa Marie Presley written in collaboration with her daughter Riley Keough will be published later this year.
The as yet untitled book about Lisa Marie’s life as the daughter of Elvis will be released by Pan Macmillan on 15 October. Lisa Marie, who died on 12 January last year, had asked Keough to help her finish her memoir, parts of which she had recorded on tape. Read More...
Book of the dayFictionReviewA timely reissue for this gem from the archives, in which an ex-public schoolboy makes a gruesome fall from grace
Lord Jim at Home probably wasn’t aimed at the faint-hearted even in its year of original publication, 1973, when alarming the audience was at its height as both method and literary goal. Its target social anxieties – slyly presented and self-mirroring – belong to the two decades following the second world war, when the fear of the managing classes was that, given half a chance, whole sections of society would break the social and cultural contract, reject the capitalist project, and enjoy themselves instead. Read More...