Books & Poetry
In his latest story collection, Adelaide author Stephen Orr charts a child’s progress ‘from the Outer Hebrides to a Mongolian desert, from war to kidnapping, a Midwestern American nightmare, (and) falling from the wheel-well of a Dreamliner’.
Books & Poetry
In his imaginative and wryly witty new novel, Sincerely, Ethel Malley, Adelaide author Stephen Orr reimagines Australia’s greatest literary hoax, the Ern Malley Affair.
Adelaide author Stephen Orr’s latest novel is autobiographical, set in suburban Australia in the 1980s where a young boy struggles to make sense of the world and figure out what he wants to do with his life.
Mexican writer Juan Rulfo’s dark fable Pedro Páramo ignores boundaries between the living and the dead – but is more than just a ghost story. It is, writes Stephen Orr, a book that created a genre.
Ernst Haffner’s novel Blutsbrüder (Blood Brothers), set in the shadows of Berlin, was burned by the Nazis a year after publication. While the lost gem has been rediscovered, the fate of its author remains a mystery, writes Stephen Orr.
The ‘strange/beautiful’ work of Flannery O’Connor – a writer who died too soon and who many have spent years trying to understand – is explored by Adelaide author Stephen Orr as part of his series on books that have changed or challenged fiction.
