Number 3 chiller
What’s so wrong about giving up on a book? Nothing, says Oliver Burkeman, as long as you do it right.
This Stilton-like blue is a mix of narratives—the Mrs Dalloway of cheeses, if you will. 10 cheeses and their literary counterparts.
22 books that need to be written. Someone please write Enough Foucault, Let’s Disco now so I can read it.
This is a harrowing novel, relentless in its depiction of marital enslavement, spiritual self-destruction and the exploited condition of women in a masculinist society…It is a brilliant achievement. Michael Dirda in the Washington Post on Elizabeth Harrower’s The Watch Tower.
Frame’s delicious satire here is reminiscent of Jane Austen.
Felicity Plunkett on Janet Frame’s In the Memorial Room in the Sydney Review of Books.
How typeface influences the way we read and think (and why everyone hates Comic Sans MS).
To some of us, Romy Ash might be in familiar west coast territory with her first novel, Floundering, but her unsentimental, suspenseful and strangely elegant story is as powerful as its backdrop is instantly recognisable. Robert Drewe’s rave review for Floundering in the Read more
Congratulations to Romy Ash and Vikki Wakefield, both shortlisted in the 2013 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards!
Romy Ash is on the shortlist for fiction for her debut novel, Floundering. Vikki Wakefield has been shortlisted in the young adult fiction category for Read more
Famous authors' funniest inscriptions in their books.
25 signs you’re addicted to books. (#13 is a perennial problem for me.)
Jack Kerouac was a mummy’s boy, or, five authors who do not live up to their mythology.
Damien Echols talks to Salon about how death row prepared him for his new life.
Sales of George Orwell’s 1984 have skyrocketed following the NSA data collection scandal. Here, some more examples of current events influencing book sales.
Watch a short film based on Diego Marani’s The Last of the Vostyachs.
The Sydney Morning Herald says the author’s latest novel ‘shows his extraordinary skills and erudition’; Lisa Hill calls it ‘a work of comic genius’.
