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The top ten books lost to time.
The Swedes have produced some pretty amazing book covers.
Spike Jonze has made a beautiful short film, featuring embroidered first editions gallivanting around the Shakespeare and Company Bookshop in Paris.
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Rodney Croome, renowned Tasmanian gay-rights activist and former Island editor, gave a moving speech to launch Danielle Wood’s Housewife Superstar: The Very Best of Marjorie Bligh, which he’s kindly allowed us to reproduce here.
It was a weekend of fanfare for Danielle Wood’s Housewife Superstar: The Very Best of Marjorie Bligh and the star of the book herself.
Marjorie Bligh, housewife superstar, offers a pronunciation guide to tricksy food terms:
Au gratin (or-grar-tan)
Bisque (bisk)
Bechamel (Beshamel)
Bolognese (bol-on-asee)
Bouillon (Boo-yawn)
Cafe au Lait (Kafay-o-lay)
Canape (can-a-pay)
Chantilly (shahnte-yi)
Coq Au Vin
Liao Yiwu, Chinese dissident, poet, musician and author of The Corpse Walker and Other True Stories of Life in China, will finally be in Australia in November.
Tiny DIY books made by Victorian tweens.
Here’s a playlist of songs about books and authors.
In time for Halloween, here are some literary pumpkins.
Geoff Dyer opens a series in the Guardian on how to write fiction.
Danielle Wood came in to the office on Friday to celebrate the arrival of finished copies of her book, Housewife Superstar.
Housewife Superstar is the life story of eccentric Tasmanian domestic goddess, Marjorie Bligh.
Follow our #fridayfrivolity tag on twitter every Friday to find funny and interesting links to things book-related.
Some more great words with no English equivalent (we’re definitely going to need to use ‘tartle’ a lot).
Helen Hodgman is the author of Blue Skies and Jack and Jill, both recently republished by Text. Blue Skies was Helen’s debut novel, originally published in 1976; her follow-up, Jack and Jill, won the Somerset Maugham Award.
