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It’s Father’s Day on 6 September—what would your dad like, you wonder, that won’t be stashed with the stubby holders and golf calendars of Father’s Days past?
Here’s a thought: get him a book! It’s thoughtful and says many thousands of words, none of which you have to think up
Publicist Léa Antigny recounts the highs and lows of this year’s Byron Bay Writers Festival.
What’s your favourite kind of bookshop?
Do you like them to be expansive and exhaustive, or do you prefer the cramped and cosy? Even if you love your e-reader, there’s nothing quite like a bricks-and-mortar bookshop to explore.
Fancy discovering ways to develop strong and believable characters, with the help of Hannie Rayson? Or learn how to just sit down and write that book in a year, under the guidance of the talented and productive Krissy Kneen?
These are two of the workshops available at Byron Bay
What happens when you take an absolutely charming and bestselling book, add the brightest Hollywood movie star and mix it with one of the best directors of our time?
It’s got to be awesome, right?
We’re falling over ourselves with delight at the news that Jennifer Lawrence is
Sonja Dechian is a writer, editor, and radio and TV producer. She has co-edited two collections of stories about the Australian refugee experience, Dark Dreams and No Place Like Home. Her beautiful and moving debut collection, An Astronaut’s Life, is released today.
Translator and senior editor Penny Hueston introduces the ‘haunting, sometimes hallucinatory tones’ of 2014 Nobel Prize winner, Patrick Modiano, and his forthcoming books Paris Nocturne and Little Jewel.
Rebecca Lim is the much-loved author of the Mercy series and The Astrologer’s Daughter. Her new book, Afterlight, is a creepy and compulsive thriller with a paranormal edge.
Sophie Teague’s life has fallen apart since her parents died in a freak motorbike accident.
