Patrick Allington

Amnesia is Peter Carey’s thirteenth novel for adults. In telling the story of Gaby, a young woman who is a cyber-activist, it draws together strands of Australian history – focusing on the 1975 constitutional crisis and the dismissal of the Whitlam Labor government by the Governor-General, John Kerr. Carey is a creator of worlds at […]

‘Slavery? In our times? Whoever would have thought it?’ Lady Mary Canongate stared beyond the coffin and into the faces of the rapt, star-studded congregation. ‘Walt went after every link in the chain: the slave masters, the multinational confectioner – you all know who I’m talking about – the Ye Olde Lolly Shop franchise and […]