Kipling once wrote a poem lamenting that the three-volume romantic novel (‘The old three-decker’) was said to be extinct. It had, he wrote, an unequalled power to carry ‘tired people’ to another world.
Tasmanian author James Talbot has proved, in his trilogy, The Alchemy of Distance, that reports of its death have been exaggerated.
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Hal G.P. Colebatch is an historian, author and regular book reviewer for The Speccie
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