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Small-m mentor: Terri-ann White remembers Veronica Brady (1929-2015)

February 26, 2016 • UWA Publishing • Terri-ann White • Veronica Brady • Westerly Centre

My testimony is all about care and community.

I was straight out of university, after a detour in rock and roll entrepreneurship: wild nights and risky behavior. At 23, because in those days BA degrees could last as long as you wanted them to, I opened a bookshop in Perth. A bookshop full of books I was interested in – one of those rare enterprises where self-interest works. Through my role as owner and operator of this bookshop, I was initiated into another world: of ideas, passion, politics and commitment to a personal ethics of care and responsibility.

Getting to know Mick: Suzanne Falkiner on writing the first biography of Randolph Stow

February 5, 2016 • UWA Publishing • Mick: A Life of Randolph Stow • Perth Writers Festival • PWF16 • Randolph Stow • Suzanne Falkiner

Randolph Stow at Adelaide University, October 1957

Collection: ABC publicity photograph: National Archives of Australia NAA

One of the surprising things about researching the life of Randolph Stow is to find out how surprising he is. Outside Western Australia at least, and among those who remember him at all, people tend to think of him as a quiet recluse, associated in his childhood with rural Geraldton, who in later life lived in an English backwater and, after writing a handful of extraordinary novels, gradually retreated from public life.