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← Back to all issuesGranta 70: Australia: The New New World
Summer 2000
This special issue of Granta is devoted to Australia, as it was and is, in new fiction, reportage, memoir and photography.
From this Issue
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New New World
Peter Conrad
‘I left Australia at the age of twenty, carrying with me everything I thought I would need.’
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Aquifer
Tim Winton
‘Through the open window I smelt dead lupin and for a long time forgot my age.’
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Marrying Eddie
Robyn Davidson
‘By the end of our journey together we had signally failed to understand each other, yet an unlikely, even unprecedented connection had formed.’
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True History of the Kelly Gang, First Part
Peter Carey
‘I lost my own father at 12 yrs. of age and know what it is to be raised on lies and silences’.
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Pobby and Dingan
Ben Rice
“I’m looking for my daughter’s imaginary friends and you’d better bloody well believe it, mate!”
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The Weeping Pom
Howard Jacobson
‘I hold the view that Australia is a more sweetly civilized country than England, but I don’t want people to think I’ve gone soft in the head.’
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The Road to Ginger Riley’s
Paul Toohey
‘Mike Fordham lies under a makeshift canvas shelter at the turn-off, dying.’
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Mate
Kate Grenville
‘He’d bought the Akubra and the elastic-sided boots but anyone could see he was a city bugger.’
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Voyage South
Murray Bail
‘The decks are brick red, the colour of old Australian verandas, as are the metal steps, the rails gloss white.’
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My Father’s Australia
Thomas Keneally
My ninety-two-year-old father, like many of his generation, grew up in the bush and lives...
