Number 3 chiller
After weeks of reading and discussion we have whittled more than 250 entries to this year’s prize down to five:
How to Be Happy by David Burton My Lips Are Sealed by Christina Cain Headland by Caitlin Crowley The Turners by Mick Elliott When the Sky Falls by Erin O'BrienThe
After Clare Wright’s Stella Prize win for The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka last week, Michelle Smith considers the importance of women’s literary prizes at The Conversation.
‘If childhood is life’s great force, and the novel is our unflinching explorer of that force, then Elena Ferrante is the most piercingly astute novelist of childhood we currently have.’ The Sydney Morning Herald on Elena Ferrante’s Read more
No one writes books to win prizes, but holy flip it feels astonishingly good to have won the Stella. Of all the literary prizes on offer, I reckon this one is the sweetest of all.
90s book titles that should actually exist.
The periodic table of storytelling.
You are what you read: bookshelves of famous people, visualised.
25 books every writer should read.
She cried out of her eyes.
Clare Wright’s groundbreaking new history of the Eureka Stockade has won the 2014 Stella Prize.
The Stella Prize aims to recognise and celebrate Australian women writers’ contribution to literature. The first Stella Prize was awarded in 2013.
Elizabeth Harrower’s long-lost final novel—completed in 1971 but never published—has just been released, and the response has been ecstatic.
‘In Certain Circles is subtle yet wounding, and very much alive,’ says Jessica Au in the Guardian.
Watch a concert with music composed by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, based on the characters and motifs of The Shadow of the Wind and The Angel’s Game.
Iconic fictional meals recreated in photographs.
To remind you never to skip the prelims: 17 incredible book epigraphs.
Page 57: The cholera epidemic reaches you anyway, while you are in the middle of dying in childbirth.
The LA Review of Books considers David Levithan’s writing career and his contribution to queer YA literature.
The problem with ‘women you should be reading’ lists.
Bonfire of the Humanities: on saving the famed manuscripts of Timbuktu.
