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Liao Yiwu, author of For a Song and a Hundred Songs, remembers the Tiananmen massacre, 25 years on.

Tiananmen Square, 25 Years On

Twenty-five years ago today the People’s Army moved into Tiananmen Square, killing hundreds of civilians as well as the nascent Chinese protest movement.

Poet, musician and writer Liao Yiwu was there.

Today, Elsewhere

Listen to Darrell Pitt, author of The Firebird Mystery, discuss WWII steampunk, Sherlock Holmes homages and self-publishing.

The cost of being a writer.

Enter our ‘How I Saved the World’ Writing Competition!

To celebrate the release of the second Jack Mason Adventure book, The Secret Abyss, Text Publishing and your school’s local bookshop are offering you the chance to win $1000 worth of books for your school and $100 worth of books for yourself!

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Today, Elsewhere

‘His command of extravagant action and idiom never flags.’ Peter Pierce on Chris Flynn’s new novel, The Glass Kingdom, in the Australian.

This Atlantic piece will give you some useful background information on the Hachette/Amazon tussle.

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10 writers and their favourite drinks.

Men can be muses, too, you know.

Every English novel ever.

The novel is dead, apparently, so it should probably have an epitaph or two.

John Green tells us 47 charming facts about children’s books.

Today, Elsewhere

Watch Graeme Simsion, author of The Rosie Project, discuss his wins at the ABIA awards, the sequel to his international bestseller and the plans for the movie on ABC News Breakfast.

Why the short story is the perfect literary form for the 21st century.

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Geoff Dyer and Another Great Day at Sea

Geoff Dyer experienced one of the most unusual literary residencies we’ve heard of—he got to spend time on the aircraft carrier USS George H. W.

Today, Elsewhere

‘This combination of extravagant talent, extreme subject matter, emotional intensity, and a radical and difficult style has led McBride to be generally regarded, since the publication of her novel, as the literary love child of two writers she is eager to acknowledge as

Today, Elsewhere

Chris Flynn’s second novel, The Glass Kingdom, is Book of the Month at Readings for June. Reviewing The Glass Kingdom for Readings, Alan Vaarwerk says, ‘Chris Flynn has a real flair for language…Smart and wryly funny, Read more

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