Geordie Williamson

It's about the lovers in a platonic, homosocial sense and the father figures in his life.

And it is a book about love.

I just loved the final section where he talks about the way in which Saul Bellow, for instance, was a phenomenon of love.

And he continues, he says, this is literature's dewy little secret.

Its energy is the energy of love.

All evocations of people, places, animals, objects, feelings, concepts, landscapes, seascapes and cloudscapes.

All such evocations are in spirit, amorous and celebratory.

Love gets put into the writing and love gets taken out.

And when you come across a passage like that, you might say you've got to put the other things aside just for a moment and say, well done, sir, well done.

Thank you.

It's been lovely to be with you all.

Thanks so much, Cassie.

And thanks, Kate.

Lovely to be with you.

Do your shelf a favour and keep on reading.

Hi, Nicole.

Taking a first look at San Francisco comes a cargo of Australian GI brides and babies.

Wives rate high on the list of world exports.

On board the Monterey are 500 brides from Australia and New Zealand with 250 babies heading for a chewing gum future.

Yes.