Eros, beauty and friction: what happened when Susan Johnson took her 85-year-old mother to live on a Greek island

This is a copy of a review that I wrote for The Conversation recently. Sydney…

Portrait of Deborah Levy with colourful geometric shapes

Position of the ‘I’ from observer to centre stage  

This passage is from the contemporary British author Deborah Levy’s memoir, The Cost of Living:…

The presence of the ‘I’ in memoir and creative nonfiction

One of the challenges of writing memoir and other forms of narrative nonfiction is how much presence the ‘I’ should have as the narrator at any moment in the text.  

Australia awash with political memoir

Do sales say anything meaningful about these books’ impact on our political process or cultural debate?