Fight Like A Girl was published in October last year and I’ve listened to friends rave about it ever since. It’s taken me nearly a year to pick it up myself. Why? Because I didn’t want to feel any more angry at the world than I already was. I needn’t have worried. Clementine Ford’s ironic, […]
memoir
Book review: The Hate Race, by Maxine Beneba Clarke
The Hate Race is Maxine Beneba Clarke’s memoir of growing up black in a white, middle-class Australian suburb in the 1980s and 1990s. It’s an enjoyable, rollicking tale of happy childhood memories peppered with shocking jolts of ingrained racism and unchecked bullying. It’s always fun to read a childhood memoir by someone who grew up […]