In his review, John Purcell credited Inga Simpson’s Mr Wigg with giving him ‘that warm feeling which comes from having read something that has strengthened or even reawakened a sense of what is right and good about the world’. John spoke with the author about her life and work. John: You’ve taken some of the most conservative aspects of rural life and have turned them into a rebel’s song. What ... Read more

The book which comes to mind on having finished Inga Simpson’s Mr Wigg is Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird. They share nothing much in common; Mr Wigg is set in country Australia in 1970, is about a man at the end of his long life and the most contentious issue touched on is the sacking of Bill Lawry as captain of the Australian Cricket team. But even so, that warm feeling which comes from ha... Read more