Mandy Sayer
Chris Flynn reviews 'Sydney Noir' edited by John Dale
Chris Flynn
18 December 2018
In 2004, New York-based publisher Akashic Books released Brooklyn Noir, a collection of short fiction written under a specific brief. Stories had to be se More
Michael Winkler reviews 'Australian Gypsies: Their secret history' by Mandy Sayer
Michael Winkler
24 November 2017
In the Australia of my childhood, the Gypsy skirt was fashionable, ABC Radio played Django Reinhardt, ‘The Gypsy Rover’ was in school songbooks, peripatetic players were called ‘Gyps More
Gillian Dooley reviews 'Love in the Years of Lunacy' by Mandy Sayer
Gillian Dooley
21 April 2011
Mandy Sayer has been winning awards since the start of her career more than twenty years ago. Her first novel, Mood Indigo (1990), a pacy, absorbing account of a remarkable and rackety childhood, bagged the Vogel in 1989. Its autobiographical origins become clear when read in conjunction with her memoir Velocity (2005), which covers Sayer’s early ... More
