Feather Man
Rhyll McMaster
Brandl & Schlesinger, Australia, 2007
Marion Boyars, UK and USA 2008
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I wish to thank my editor, Diana Giese, for her invaluable and erudite assistance in the final shaping of my work. She knew when not to interfere, and when to apply pressure to make necessary changes.
Rhyll McMaster
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The Cat of Portovecchio
Diana Giese’s support and advice have been invaluable. Working with her has been a great pleasure. It was a delight to read her almost daily emails. They were always encouraging, correct, professional and kind.
Maria Strani-Potts, whose book was edited online between Greece and Australia
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Too Much, Too Soon
Stephanie Green
Pandanus Books, 2006
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Green reveals her passions gradually. Like her characters, she is a collector of old, discarded and lost things. Time presses down throughout her stories. Younger people watch and learn from the generations before them; they sort through the belongings of somebody no longer present…the voice in many stories is close, whispery, intimate. Come here, the narrator seems to say. Look what I’ve found…
The Weekend Australian, 4 Nov. 2006
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To Silence
Subhash Jaireth
Puncher & Wattmann, 2011
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Highly plausible fictional characters help create intricate and tantalising stories around three ageing figures, all of whom have lived through terrible times…Within punctuating silences and solitudes, the joy and grief, laughter and pain, beauty and ugliness of the three lives is relived, in a finely-crafted book that reads like poetry.
Australian Book Review, 31 October 2011
Maria Chekhova, who dedicated her life to her brother’s memory, lived through the Russian Revolution. ‘She asks herself how she has survived through silence, and questions why she was silent,’ says Caroline Stacey, co-director of a theatre piece adapted from ‘fictional autobiographies’ by Canberra writer Subhash Jaireth.
The Australian, 8 February 2012
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