Number 3 chiller
9 video games based on classic literature.
Paragraphs lost: when a bibliophile tries to find a single book in his book-filled house.
Quiz: match the writer to their odd job.
Elementary, my dear Yorick: 10 literary quotes we all get wrong.
It is with great sorrow that we share the news that Boyd Oxlade, author of Death in Brunswick, has passed away.
Boyd Oxlade was born in Sydney, and educated by the Jesuits in Ireland and at Xavier College, Melbourne.
Elizabeth Harrower and Portishead—a perfect literary and music match? Nikki Lusk thinks so.
The ‘common core’ v books: when teachers are unable to foster a love of reading in students.
“We’re told we need to breastfeed for six months otherwise we have done nothing for our child! For a year even, like some in Scandinavia, to protect boys from prostate cancer when they are 60. What can I say!” The Financial Times has lunch with Elisabeth Badinter, author of Read more
Helen Trinca’s Madeleine, a biography of the brilliant but troubled Madeleine St John, reviewed in the Spectator.
‘I can still hear his voice whenever I read his books. It is for such interactions that people become booksellers.’ An elegy for bookshops past.
We’ll be accepting entries for the 2014 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing from Monday 3 March until Friday 4 April.
The New York Review of Books considers Margaret Drabble’s The Pure Gold Baby in light of the author’s body of work.
Recovering the Classics: a collection of crowdsourced covers for great works of fiction in the public domain.
Great literary catchphrases. (Stretching the definition of ‘catchphrase’ a little, perhaps.)
Adele Walsh from the Centre for Youth Literature raved to 3RRR about Laurie Halse Anderson’s The Impossible Knife of Memory (jump to 1hr 42mins to hear it).
Point: Why we should stop teaching novels to high school students. Counterpoint: Read more
‘I’ve been very lucky. Five suicides and a murder and growing up in beautiful places. You couldn’t have hoped for anything better for writing.’ David Vann on life and landscape.
Scientists find the secret formula for writing a bestselling novel. (Handy tip: use fewer adverbs.
