![]() Margaret Hickey, crime novelist with a PhD on landscape in Australia literature. ![]() As the boys of Domrmy gather in the field, Joan is bent-backed over the ground, digging missiles out of the earth with blackened fingernails. Not pebbles but rocks of heft and edges and sharp corners. Chen DOMRMY, SUMMER 1422 Her job is picker-upper of stones. ![]() This is a haunting and deeply insightful novel’ Rebecca Stott, Costa award-winning author of In the Days of Rain ‘ Pacy but lyrical, which takes great skill. Joan: A Novel of Joan of Arc by Katherine J. ![]() Her books include Joan of Arc and Chistine de Pizan's Ditié, published in 2021 by Lexington Books Chen has given us a new Joan for our times, who is tender, magnetic, and courageous. Karen Green, Prof of Philosophy, University of Melbourne. ![]() (Keep scrolling for a list of all other books mentioned in the discussion) Katherine J Chen, Joan, Hodder and Stoughton Joan of Arc as a capable, scrappy young woman unmoored on a strange coastline and trees in both crime fiction and the Australian literary imaginary: reading Scott McCulloch's Basin, Katherine J Chen's Joan (with Prof of Philosophy Karen Green) and crime writer Margaret Hickey's Stone Town on both crime and landscape ![]()
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