Michael Briody‘Two Peas in a Podcast.’Chalk and Cheese: A Fabricationby Ross Fitzgerald & Ian McFadyenHybrid, 2 025, 262 pages,$24.99

Ross Fitzgerald and Ian McFadyen’s powerful new novel, Chalk and Cheese: A Fabrication (Hybrid, Melbourne, $24.99), features two octogenarian former rival radio stars, Bill and Ben, who detest each other—until they find themselves in the same nursing home.The plot centres around these two men in the twilight of their lives who refuse, as Dylan Thomas wrote, to “go gentle into that good night”. The novel sets the scene for the flood of …

The first review of Chalk and Cheese: A Fabrication

Michael Briody‘Two Peas in a Podcast.’Chalk and Cheese: A Fabricationby Ross Fitzgerald & Ian McFadyenHybrid, 2 025, 262 pages,$24.99Ross Fitzgerald and Ian McFadyen’s powerful new novel, Chalk and Cheese: A Fabrication (Hybrid, Melbourne, $24.99), features two octogenarian former rival radio stars, Bill and Ben, who detest each other—until they find themselves in the same nursing home.The plot centres around these two men in the twilight of their lives who refuse, as Dylan Thomas wrote, to “go gentle into that good night”. The …

Chalk and Cheese: A Fabrication, by Ross Fitzgerald and Ian McFadyen, Hybrid Publishers,$24.99,

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Chalk and Cheese: A Fabrication, by Ross Fitzgerald and Ian McFadyenCategories: Fiction, Released Soon. Product ID: 8193

“Chalk and Cheese is a work of brilliantly cinematic quality.”–Nigel Marsh, Smart, Stupid & Sixty

Ross Fitzgerald and Ian McFadyen’s powerful new fiction, Chalk and Cheese, is a tale of two 80-year-old former radio stars, Bill and Ben, who hate each other, but who end up in the same nursing home.Even though …

Letter To The EditorWinning decisionIt would be a wise and potentially vote-winning choice for the State ALP to change tack and, instead of supporting the building of a hugely expensive Aussie Rules Stadium in Hobart, to redevelop the existing stadium in Launceston.This would not only deliver a long hoped for AFL team for Tasmanians but at the same time protect Hobart-heritage-values and the state’s financial condition.As a lifetime Collingwood supporter I do understand that “football isn’t a matter of life or death. It’s much more important than that!”But this has …