Beautiful Revolutionary, Laura Elizabeth Woollett’s novel that delves into the people of Peoples Temple, was published in August 2018 by Scribe Publications in Australia. A contributor to the jonestown report for several years while she worked on the book, Woollett offers her thoughts upon completion of the book in her article So I Wrote A Cult Novel.
Reviews of the book from past contributors to the jonestown report reviews include:
- Reading Evelyn, Finding Carolyn, by Kathy Sparrow
- More a Whisper Than a Shout, by Rikke Wettendorff
- This Is Not a Beach Book, by Jennifer Kathleen Gibbons
- Revolutionary Beauty, by Katherine Hill
Reviews during the first months after publication include:
- Ambition, desire and the search for meaning: inside the mind of a cult leader’s lover
by Chris Johnston, The Guardian (Australia), July 25, 2018 - Beautiful Revolutionary
by Susan Stevenson, readings.com.au, July 25, 2018 - Laura Elizabeth Woollett, Beautiful Revolutionary
The Saturday Paper (Australia) July 21, 2018 - Aussie author tackles Jonestown massacre
The New Daily (Australia) August 4, 2018 - Jonestown Re-Visited: Review of Beautiful Revolutionary by Laura Elizabeth Woollett
Better Reading (Australia) August 7, 2018 - ‘They Believed in Jim Jones’: A Review of Laura Elizabeth Woollett’s Beautiful Revolutionary
by Rebecca Varcoe, The Lifted Brow (Australia) August 13, 2018 - Books of the week, September 1, 2018: Beautiful Revolutionary
Stuff (New Zealand), September 1, 2018 - Beautiful Revolutionary, What You Might Find
by Ed Wright, The Weekend Australian, Sept 8, 2018 - Anna MacDonald reviews ‘Beautiful Revolutionary’ by Laura Elizabeth Woollett
Australian Book Review, Sept 10, 2018 - The Best Books Of 2018
Elle Australia, October 3, 2018 - Laura Elizabeth Woollett’s new novel Beautiful Revolutionary is Jonestown, but not as we know it
by Emily Paull, The AU Review, January 15, 2019
Broadcast interviews and reviews include:
- Jonestown – a revolutionary suicide, Late Night Live (Australia), July 31, 2018
- On crime writer Ann Cleeves, Laura Elizabeth Woollett’s Beautiful Revolutionary, … , The Bookshelf (Australia), August 10, 2018
Originally posted on October 1st, 2018.
Last modified on May 30th, 2020.