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The Rise and Fall of Great Powers is the second novel by Tom Rachman, the much-lauded author of The Imperfectionists.
‘Tom Rachman’s ingenious second novel, The Rise and Fall of Great Powers, is harder to describe than The Imperfectionists, his sensational first,’ says the Read more
‘For St John, words were about keeping the darkness at bay.’ Lucy Sussex reviews Helen Trinca’s Madeleine : A Life of Madeleine St John in the Sydney Review of Books.
Two writers on how parenthood has informed their writing lives.
‘Books are sacred’: Read more
An artist bio gets real. (Too real?)
The report cards of famous authors.
“You are a parasite,” Alice said. Ayn Rand’s Alice in Wonderland.
Watch Graeme Simsion, author of The Rosie Project, on ABC TV’s The Business, discussing the business of writing (from 19.40).
Literary confessions: what books have you not read?
Cartoonist Bob Eckstein drew his favourite bookshops for the New Yorker.
Harvard confirms book is bound in human skin. (This headline makes me happier than it should.)
‘I grow pissed…I grow pissed…’ More drunk texts from famous authors.
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Eimear McBride has won the 2014 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction for her debut novel, A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing.
It took many years for Read more
Liao Yiwu, author of For a Song and a Hundred Songs, remembers the Tiananmen massacre, 25 years on.
Listen to Darrell Pitt, author of The Firebird Mystery, discuss WWII steampunk, Sherlock Holmes homages and self-publishing.
To celebrate the release of the second Jack Mason Adventure book, The Secret Abyss, Text Publishing and your school’s local bookshop are offering you the chance to win $1000 worth of books for your school and $100 worth of books for yourself!
In Darrell Pitt’s action-packed Read more
