Picnic at Hanging Rock

'Picnic at Hanging Rock fifty years on' by Marguerite Johnson

Marguerite Johnson

24 November 2017

Far from being a flimsy, frilly story for women full of antique charm and middle-class manners, Joan Lindsay’s Picnic at Hanging Rock is a novel of sharp social observations and nuanced More

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Danielle Clode reviews 'Tales from the Inner City' by Shaun Tan
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James Dunk reviews 'The Environment: A History of the Idea' by Paul Warde, Libby Robin, and Sverker Sörlin
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