Acknowledgment of Country
The Triangle is a community paper, principally for the region bounded by the three prominent mountains: Peak Alone, Gulaga and Mumbulla. It is produced on the traditional lands of the Yuin nation and we acknowledge that this was and will always be Yuin Country. We are grateful for their thousands of years of careful and deliberate stewardship of Country and pay our respects to Yuin Elders past, present and emerging.
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The Dark Flood Rises
/in Books, Fiction /by Darryl ButlerMargaret Drabble, The Dark Flood Rises, $29.99
I haven’t read any book by Margaret Drabble for years, so this was a bit of trip down memory lane. I can’t remember her being quite so “earnest” – I’ll have to re-read some of her earlier works. One reviewer of this, her nineteenth novel, remarked that people under 60 might not get much out of this book, but … Read more »
Nutshell
/in Books, Fiction /by Darryl ButlerNutshell
Ian McEwan
Reviewed by Heather O’Connor
I think I have mentioned before how excited I get when my favourite authors bring out a new book: here we go again! Ian McEwan has surpassed himself this time: the novel is short (200 pages) and can easily be read in one sitting—which I did. The narrator is his youngest ever—in fact, a third-term foetus. He’s described as a modern day Hamlet, who lies helpless in his mother’s womb, listening to her plot to kill her husband, the … Read more »
Incest: Shhh, Keep it in the family
/in Books, Non-Fiction /by Darryl ButlerYasmine Bonner
Incest: Shhh, Keep it in the family
Reviewed by Sarah Gardiner
Everyone Brave is Forgiven
/in Biography, Books /by Darryl ButlerChris Cleave, Everyone Brave is Forgiven, $29.99 (reviewed October 2016)
Chris Cleave in his notes at the conclusion of the book tells us that he was inspired to write this book as a tribute to his maternal grandfather, Captain David Hill of the Royal Artillery. Captain Hill served on the island of Malta, where near starvation was as challenging as the almost daily bombing raids by the Germans. Some of the facts of his service are reproduced in the novel, but otherwise, the plot is as imagined by the author. The first few chapters didn’t grab me, mainly because … Read more »
The Natural Way of Things
/in Books, Fiction /by Darryl ButlerCharlotte Wood, The Natural Way of Things, $29.99 (August 2016)
Two friends said is was the best and the most important book they had read for years; two couldn’t finish it, one commenting that it was taking … Read more »
The Neapolitan Novels
/in Books, Fiction /by Darryl ButlerElana Ferrante, The Neapolitan Novels Text Publishing $22.99 (July 2016)