Rosie Milne
Rosie Milne is a writer living in Hong Kong. Her first novel How To Change Your Life was published by Pan Macmillan in May 2002.
The Touch by Colleen McCullough
ROSIE MILNE | 05 January 2004It is nearly thirty years since COLLEEN MCCULLOUGH published The Thorn Birds, one of the biggest bestsellers of all time. She chose not to stay in the genre, a cross between family saga and historical drama, but moved on to write other kinds of fiction, culminating in her Masters of Rome series. Now she has returned to Thorn Birds territory, with a book which is sure to satisfy her multitude of fans.
[ more ]
Facing The Light by Adele Geras
ROSIE MILNE | 22 June 2003ADELE GERAS is a prolific author of children's books, and books for young adults. FACING THE LIGHT is her first novel for adults, and it contains plenty to admire. It is commercial women's fiction, but it is miles away from the cliches of any easily identifiable sub-genre. Geras's themes are dark, and interesting, and genuinely feminist.
FACING THE LIGHT unfolds against the backdrop of preparations for a party in honour of... [ more ]
Sacking The Stork by Kris Webb and Kathy Wilson
ROSIE MILNE | 29 April 2003SACKING THE STORK is slick Ozzie mum-lit written by two mothers, who are also sisters. It is set in Sydney and in Hong Kong, where one sister, Kris Webb, once worked as a lawyer.
The warm and funny protagonist, Sophie, has just dumped Max, her commitment phobic boyfriend, when she discovers she's pregnant. She... [ more ]
The Crimson Petal and The White by Michel Faber
ROSIE MILNE | 18 January 2003At 835 pages, THE CRIMSON PETAL AND THE WHITE is one of the longest books I've read for ages, but it was well worth the time and effort.
It is set in the late nineteenth century, and its length is perhaps intended to suggest those fat Victorian novels, written for a slower-paced age than ours, when people weren't distracted by television and didn't think in sound bites. We are used to slimmer novels, and perhaps this one's... [ more ]
Dorian by Will Self
ROSIE MILNE | 25 November 2002DORIAN bills itself as an imitation, a shameless reworking of "our" (whose?) most significant myth of shamelessness: Oscar Wilde's The Picture Of Dorian Gray.
In Self's version, the eponymous Dorian is beautiful, but wanton, a psychopath, who manages to hang onto his looks, and his allure, despite the facts that he is HIV positive, takes drugs, drinks, smokes, and is without compunction.... [ more ]
