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‘This short, funny and often beautifully written novel—completed in the early 1970s but just now being published—provides an excellent occasion for remembering the weird wisdom and genuine talent of Janet Frame.’ The New York Times Sunday Book Review considers Janet Frame’s Read more
Here you’ll find a collection of links to various ‘Best Books of 2013’ lists featuring titles we’ve published this year. This post will be updated regularly.
Kirkus Reviews: Best of 2013
(including Toni Jordan’s Nine Days, Herman Koch’s The Dinner, Ruth Ozeki’s Read more
Hanging out with Hemingway’s excessively toed cats.
Go on Amazon and give the book one star because ‘the plastic wrapping was slightly ripped when it arrived from the seller.’ 14 ways to tick off a writer.
Ben Schott, author of Schottenfreude: German Words for the Human Condition, chats with Adam Spencer on 702 ABC and with Jonathan Green on Radio National’s Sunday Extra.
Whom or what are literary prizes for?
Guy Rundle bids farewell to the second-hand bookshop.
When Macs Attack: Paul McNamee’s Game Changer: My Tennis Life, a memoir of his career in pro tennis, featured in the Age. Game Changer is out today; for a full list of events with Paul McNamee, visit our events page.
Readings reviews our two November Classics: Gerald Murnane’s A Lifetime on Clouds and Elizabeth Harrower’s Down in the City.
‘This latest issue of the Griffith Review confirms its position as Australia’s most stimulating literary journal.’ Griffith REVIEW 42: Once Upon a Time in Oz reviewed in the Sydney Morning Herald.
I’m just going to close my eyes and imagine I’m relaxing in one of these idyllic reading nooks.
12 vintage advertisements starring famous authors.
Julian Peters has done some beautiful illustrations for a comic book adaptation of ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’.
‘Though the techniques that McBride is employing have a lineage in modernist writing, their most significant innovators also Irish by birth, her efforts feel unusually fresh and inimitable.
Eimear McBride has won the inaugural Goldsmiths Prize, worth 10,000, for her debut novel, A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing.
The Goldsmiths Prize, launched this year by Goldsmiths' College, seeks to reward those who break new ground and ‘fiction at its most novel’.
