Category: Book Reviews
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How High Can Everest Rise?
This appears in Quadrant magazine’s November 2019 issue, just out. The Dizzying Heights Ross Fitzgerald and Ian McFadyen ISBN No: 978-1-925736-30-4 Hybrid Publishing : Melbourne pp. 248, $24.99. Review by Richard Laidlaw It’s plainly very difficult being a political satirist these days, when the politicians seem to have cornered the market themselves and to have…
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Let Him Eat Cake
RICHARD LAIDLAW Book Review IT must be very difficult being a political satirist these days. So many politicians, to a man and woman, get underfoot with plots that would outdo a Goon Show episode and leave their writers wringing their hands in frustration: Why couldn’t we think of that? So we owe a deep…
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