Another early (?) contender for my book of the year award, I just finished reading Nicolas Rothwell’s The Red Highway, a strange kind of disconnected personal journey into the heart of Australia, that grew on me the more I read it.

Sure, it’s ‘implausible’, and I had trouble figuring out whether I was framing this as fiction or non-fiction, but it’s not ‘implausible nonsense’ as one reviewer put it. There’s a range of viewpoints on the Crikey blogs HERE and a fairly positive review by Liam Davison in The Australian HERE, but some passages were wonderful.  I asked my daughter, who works at ‘Readings’ how I should categorise this and she didn’t hesitate: “Landscape Memoir”.  That’s my favourite category!