Sunday, January 11, 2026

Helen Garner, Chloe Hooper and Sarah Krasnostein - The Mushroom Tapes

A woman killed some family members with poisonous mushrooms in a meal she cooked, somewhere in regional Victoria - to great public fascination. That's pretty much literally all I knew about the matter, having avoided nearly all the detail and discussion at the time. So for me this was a readable more-or-less introduction to the events and the surrounding public discussion, in three safe-feeling sets of hands, and probably about as much insight - at about the level of 'certainty' - as I wanted and would've trusted.