I had hoped you’d notice. The stage was set. But you missed it.
Confronted with the inevitability of Margaret Simons’ book,the Labor figure co-operated with a cool generosity.
Online book sales are cheap and convenient,but a reader loses out on all the valuable things a bookshop offers. Icons such as Hill of Content,Readings and Paperback Bookshop prove this every week.
Viola Di Grado’s Blue Hunger mixes carnal lasciviousness and tenderness in its tale of a young woman embarking on a feverish love affair in Shanghai.
The past comes calling at the home of a retired detective in the Booker shortlisted author’s latest novel,Old God’s Time.
The Dictionary of Lost Words won prizes galore and was a Reese Witherspoon book club pick. Now it’s time for the anticipated follow-up.
The bestselling novel The Tattooist of Auschwitz is coming to the screen. And the woman adapting it expects controversy to follow.
Ann Mossop has assembled a diverse range of guests for her first writers’ festival.
“We have fewer and fewer publishers and we have poorer and poorer books as a result,” says publishing veteran Hilary McPhee.
If the Palestinian voices speaking in Adelaide had not been amplified,they would have had an audience of hundreds. Instead,multitudes have been introduced to their opinions and experiences.
It’s hard not to be swept up by My Father’s House,Joseph O’Connor’s mesmerising story set in Rome during the German occupation.