Writing Political Satire in Australia

On the back cover of each of my Everest Grafton novels, in addition to Barry Humphries’s endorsement, the publisher cleverly highlighted four words from a humourless critic’s utterly negative review published in the utterly humourless Melbourne Age: “I never laughed once.” I’ve found that it’s often helpful to tip negative criticism on its head!

Ross Fitzgerald & Ian McFadyen

Mar 30 2022

18 mins