Interview: Christopher Koch

Tasmania’s landscape and the long reach of its convict history have been recurring features of Christopher Koch’s novels – not least his latest.

By Guy Somerset In Books

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20th October, 2012

Interview

It’s early afternoon when I arrive in Tasmania to interview Christopher Koch and I can’t help but think of the line in his Miles Franklin Literary Award-winning novel Highways to a War about 2.30pm on a hot afternoon being “the time of tedium and madness, when the light was like congealed fat; when murder moved in the wood-heap”. I can’t vouch for the tedium and madness, or the murder moving in the wood-heap, but this particular afternoon is cool and the light regulation grey as the rain descends and mists lie low, masking the top of Mt Wellington, on whose foothills the ...

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