The three stooges: Owen Marshall on his mates

Today Owen Marshall, Grahame Sydney and Brian Turner release a big hardback book called Landmarks. A braiding of essays, paintings and poems, it’s a companion title to the trio’s Timeless Land, published in 1995. It’s a tribute to place, but it’s also about low-key, enduring friendship, as Marshall explains.  In her emails to us, Harriet … Read more

‘When love is not madness, it is not love’: Owen Marshall’s latest work pulls all the right strings

Sue Orr admires the latest work of the master: Owen Marshall’s new novel, Love As a Stranger. I’ve always been wary of thrillers. I don’t like the way they so brashly presume they’re going to thrill me. That gets my goat, as my mum would say. Their ardent determination to surprise feels fated to self-sabotage. … Read more