With historical must-reads from Peter FitzSimons on Sir Douglas Mawson, to the brilliant fiction that is Elliot Perlman's The Street Sweeper, to highly anticipated autobiographies from cricket fast bowler Brett Lee and Tour de France Green Jersey winner Robbie McEwen you will have all your Christmas gifts covered Read more
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Elliot Perlman chats to Toni Whitmont about his new book, The Street Sweeper
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W3TiniTYJ4&rel=0] The Street Sweeper by Elliot Perlman From the scars of the civil rights struggle in the United States to the crematoria of Auschwitz-Birkenau, there are even more stories than there are people passing each other every day on the crowded streets of any major city. Only some of these stories survive to become history. Adam Zignelik, a... Read more
Elliot Perlman, author of The Street Sweeper, answers Ten Terrifying Questions
The Booktopia Book Guru asks Elliot Perlman author of Seven Types of Ambiguity, Three Dollars, The Reasons I Won’t Be Coming and now, The Street Sweeper Ten Terrifying Questions —————————- 1. To begin with why don’t you tell us a little bit about yourself – where were you born? Raised? Schooled? I was born in Melbourne and spent... Read more
The Street Sweeper by Elliot Perlman: review by Toni Whitmont
A page later I knew I was in the hands of a master - someone whose deliberately crafted prose, stunning ability to weave a story, intelligently thought through issues leaves the reader humbled, in a state of grace, in awe. Read more