Truthful Fictions

9. Twyborn? Tri-born? Or some lives as they might have happened?

8. A master of prose because he knows he shares it

7. The living are few, Frank tells us, But The Dead Are Many

6. How the world failed the League of Nations, then began again

5. Another journey with another Frank

4. Questions of scale: a term in Geneva, starting in 1926

3. Capricornia

2. Strangely humble: The Tree of Man by Patrick White

19. An afterword

18. The goddess allows herself to be seen. But not forever; Shirley Hazzard’s The Transit of Venus (1980)

17. Tirra Lirra by the River

16. A place too big: Australia as a collection of regions

15. Style: often mentioned, less commonly analysed

14. Good, better, best/Never let it rest. Till your good is better/And your better best.

13. Names galore, and the need for disguise

12. Instead of mockery, a many-sided scrutiny

11. A Kangaroo still hopping around in our minds

10. Judith Wright: from The Moving Image to Fourth Quarter

1. Gippsland’s first great book