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‘Tree Palace intelligently muses on the nature of human connections, to place and one another.’ Peter Pierce reviews Craig Sherborne’s new novel in the Sydney Morning Herald.
The case for Gerald Murnane’s The Plains as the great Australian novel.
‘Don’t ever do it for the money’: a conversation with a literary agent.
‘Sian Prior’s beautiful and confessional memoir, Shy, starts with her dismantling a bedroom mirror and removing it from her sight—not for the truth it tells, but the illusion it feeds.’ Sian Prior is profiled in the Sydney Morning Herald. Read more
I’m not interested in irony and I’m not interested in clever. I’m interested in trying to dig out parts of human life that cannot be expressed in a straightforward way, that don’t fit neatly into the vocabulary and grammar that are available.
The 25 greatest homes in literature. (Whither Pemberley, the whole reason for the love story in Pride and Prejudice? Don’t try to tell me Lizzie would still have fallen for Darcy without seeing his swell digs.)
…David Burton’s How to Be Happy, a funny, sad and serious memoir of a personal journey through adolescence. How to Be Happy tackles depression, friendship, sexual confusion, academic pressure, love and self-discovery.
Cory Taylor’s second novel, My Beautiful Enemy, has been shortlisted for the 2014 Miles Franklin Literary Award.
My Beautiful Enemy explores questions of desire and redemption against the background of a savage racial war. Cory Taylor’s debut novel, Read more
‘What would it be like to be the guy who punched Harry Houdini in the stomach?…Unless you believe the conspiracy theories, it was probably just some guy who thought it would be a funny, dumb-ass thing to do.’ Steven Galloway talks to the Globe and Mail about his new novel, Read more
