The Saturday Paper, James Bradley, ‘Catherine McKinnon, To Sing of War’

Catherine McKinnon’s last novel, the Miles Franklin-shortlisted Storyland, is one of the more striking Australian novels of recent years. Spanning almost a thousand years, from the 1700s to the 28th century, it powerfully captures the links between colonial destruction and ecological crisis and speaks to the violence inherent in trying to understand the human in separation from the natural world.

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