Like so many avid readers around the world, I was fascinated by the recent The New York Times list of the Best Books of the 21st century, as voted by 503 authors, critics and book lovers.
But, like many Australians, I was disappointed to see no Australian books on the list. Even those authors who’ve made a splash in the US literary scene this century – Helen Garner, Gerald Murnane, Maria Tumarkin – didn’t get a guernsey.
