Miles Allinson
Miles Allinson is from Readings St Kilda. He is also the author of two award-winning novels, Fever Of Animals and In Moonland.
Review — 25 Jun 2019
The Yield by Tara June Winch
The Yield, Tara June Winch’s inspired second novel, begins and ends with an injunction: ‘Every person around should learn the word for country in the old language’ Albert Gondiwindi…
Blog post — 9 Jul 2014
What I Loved: The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald
At certain times a book is able to take hold of you in such a way as to direct the angle of your life for a while. W.G. Sebald’s The…
Blog post — 30 Apr 2014
Meet the Bookseller with Miles Allinson
We chat with bookseller Miles Allinson about the value of well-made objects and his desire to develop a rare skin disease (so he can find the time to read Proust…
Review — 1 May 2013
Forty-one False Starts by Janet Malcolm
In a lovely essay on J.D. Salinger in her new book, Janet Malcolm quotes a dismissively ironic review by Arthur Kazin. ‘Some day’, Kazin wrote, ‘there will be learned theses…
Review — 25 Sep 2012
Blasphemy: New And Selected Stories by Sherman Alexie
[[sherman-alexie]]Sherman Alexie is something of a big deal in American fiction. He’s published 20 books, directed films, and in 2010 he won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Blasphemy is a…
Review — 29 Jul 2012
Tarcutta Wake by Josephine Rowe
Josephine Rowe is a Melbourne writer who has been quietly accumulating adulation for some years now. In truth, Tarcutta Wake is her fourth collection of very short stories, although the…