Jonah

I first read 'Jonah' over twenty years ago, partly because it may be considered the Sydney-based equivalent to my all time favourite Australian book, 'The Songs of the Sentimental Bloke' (written by C.J. Dennis and set in Melbourne). After revisiting this novel I am blown away by how good Stone's wr......more

I stumbled across this book in the local library and absolutely loved it. Stone sets the scene of turn of the century Sydney's inner city slums. His central character Jonah, a born leader, is joined by some memorable, sensitively drawn characters: Mrs Yabsley, Pinkey, Chook, the ghastly Ada, Clara G......more

Geoffrey Dutton, a writer and editor, selected and reviewed almost a hundred classic Australian books, which was put into The Australian Collection: Australia's Greatest Books, published in 1985. Johah, by Louis Stone, is on that list. Set in the early 1900s in inner city Sydney, it manages to captu......more

Finally finished this, my second-favourite thing with my own name (the first is Jonah: A Veggietales Movie). A richly descriptive slices-of-life novel telling a quiet, understated tragedy in turn-of-the-century Sydney.......more

Eh. The writing was great but the characters seemed like yobbo thugs. If you like antiheroes by all means give it a try but I got sick of it pretty quickly.......more