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A writer and journalist living in Australia, Mark Mordue is the author of Dastgah: Diary of a Headtrip, a collection of stories, poems, and impressions written during a one-year odyssey that took him through India, Iran, Turkey, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Book Lovers

The Death of Bunny Munro By Nick Cave

Issue No. 149 ~ October, 2009

"The Death of Bunny Munro should carry an EXPLICIT warning too, but the provocative cover art may similarly protect readers from being too surprised. Ironically, it's the depth - not the in-your-face shallowness - of the book that is the real jack in the box."

Another Country Stories by Nicholas Rothwell

Issue No. 143 ~ April, 2009

"A heady analyst of the world around him, [Rothwell is] overly fond of flashing his intelligence forward in the odd word certain to send you to a dictionary. His sense of other people's voices also jars, as if everyone is gifted with the Queen's English and a perfect philosophical riposte."

Another Country

Issue No. 141 ~ February, 2009

"A heady analyst of the world around him, [Rothwell is] overly fond of flashing his intelligence forward in the odd word certain to send you to a dictionary. His sense of other people's voices also jars, as if everyone is gifted with the Queen's English and a perfect philosophical riposte."

Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuscinski

Issue No. 133 ~ June, 2008

"...This tendency to slide between the past and present, to place events inside an historical echo chamber, to draw us into a world where fact and myth are entwined and time becomes `timeless', is classic `Kapuscinskian' territory."

On Chesil Beach

Issue No. 122 ~ July, 2007

"They were young, educated, and both virgins on this their wedding night, and they lived in a time when conversation about sexual difficulties was plainly impossible. But it is never easy."

The Road Fiction by Cormac McCarthy

Issue No. 117 ~ February, 2007

"Touted as something of a post-September 11 novel by the publisher, The Road actually harks as much to the disturbing imagery of the 1991 Basra road massacre in the First Gulf War and more recent Iraqi traumas..."