Trouble Down Under - cover of New York Times Sunday Book review features two antipodean authors

'The Hanging Garden'

By PATRICK WHITE
Reviewed by JOHN SUTHERLAND

In the eyes of Patrick White's two refugee children, most Australians are horrible and very few are kind.

'Between My Father and the King: New and Uncollected Stories'

By JANET FRAME
Reviewed by ALISON McCULLOCH

Janet Frame was saved from undergoing a lobotomy when a book of her stories won a local literary prize.