Reading Miss Fisher involves consistently encountering the words ‘Hispano-Suiza’. This is her car, which in the TV series is a wonderfully sourced piece of authentic motoring history that remains mostly in the background. In the written stories each mention seems to invoke far more than a sense of conveyance; rather an exotic and barely restrainable …
Bought In God They Trust? by Roy Williams today. It has articles of varying length and depth about the spiritual backgrounds and beliefs of those who held the office of Prime Minister of Australia up until the publication in 2013. We’ve had three more PMs since then. Given the times when all these were born …
One thing the TV version of Miss Fisher cannot include is the arch narrative voice of author Kerry Greenwood: ‘What is wrong with them?’ asked the doctor, who had tired of Miss Gately’s company some time before she met her.
Clearing my head on holidays is usually helped by reading: fiction, biography, history. This Phryne Fisher collection by Kerry Greenwood is a good start. I first encountered this character through an early morning ABC radio book reading I used to listen to while walking the streets at early hours. It was only after that that …
