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Helen Trinca’s new biography, Madeleine: A Life of Madeleine St John, was launched by Richard Walsh in Sydney last Saturday. His wonderful speech is below.
Towards the very end of her life, Madeleine St John saw herself not as an Australian novelist, but as an English novelist.
Watch Ramona Koval and Raimond Gaita discuss J. M. Coetzee’s new novel, The Childhood of Jesus.
What’s in a title, asks an author who had to change his.
The great Richard Nash on the business of literature and the future of the book.
The Rosie Project has just been released in the UK and has already captured the hearts and minds of the nation’s reviewers.
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The hero of The Rosie Project is one of those rare fictional characters destined to take up residence in the popular consciousness.
Tarantino films as Penguin-style book covers.
Back from the dead and taking selfies: classic authors on Instagram.
Hot on the news of their Goodreads acquisition, Amazon announces they have purchased English.
Listen to Helen Trinca discuss her new biography of Madeleine St John on ABC Classic FM.
12 non-Amazon-owned alternatives to Goodreads.
Look around your current writing workshop. Look right and left. Most of those people will stop writing.
Suddenly, it seems like gay characters are everywhere in YA literature. Or, if not everywhere, certainly in far more places and in a greater variety than ever before. On the state of LGBT characters in young adult fiction. (Read more
The Wheeler Centre interviewed Helen Trinca, author of Madeleine: A Life of Madeleine St John.
Author Matt Haig on why authors should embrace Twitter. (Related: the 10 most prolific authors on Twitter.
Read about this amazing graffiti portrait of Raimond Gaita and the process of its creation.
The Californian Department of Education released a list of recommended reading that included some LGBT-themed books; what you’d expect to happen, happened.
Oscar Wilde’s advice to writers: don’t give up your day job.
Matt Haig, author of The Radleys, lists 30 things every writer should know.
25 turns, pivots and twists to complicate your story. (Warning: there be swears.
