Number 3 chiller
Helen Trinca’s Madeleine, a biography of the brilliant but troubled Madeleine St John, reviewed in the Spectator.
‘I can still hear his voice whenever I read his books. It is for such interactions that people become booksellers.’ An elegy for bookshops past.
We’ll be accepting entries for the 2014 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing from Monday 3 March until Friday 4 April.
The New York Review of Books considers Margaret Drabble’s The Pure Gold Baby in light of the author’s body of work.
Recovering the Classics: a collection of crowdsourced covers for great works of fiction in the public domain.
Great literary catchphrases. (Stretching the definition of ‘catchphrase’ a little, perhaps.)
Adele Walsh from the Centre for Youth Literature raved to 3RRR about Laurie Halse Anderson’s The Impossible Knife of Memory (jump to 1hr 42mins to hear it).
Point: Why we should stop teaching novels to high school students. Counterpoint: Read more
‘I’ve been very lucky. Five suicides and a murder and growing up in beautiful places. You couldn’t have hoped for anything better for writing.’ David Vann on life and landscape.
Scientists find the secret formula for writing a bestselling novel. (Handy tip: use fewer adverbs.
PUBLICIST/ SENIOR PUBLICIST — Text Publishing, Melbourne
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Books that sizzle: The Conversation considers summer in relation to Australian literature, and looks forward to upcoming releases including Suzanne McCourt’s The Lost Child and Stephen Orr’s One Boy Missing.
Appropriate on such a scorcher of a day: Read more
It’s set to reach 43 degrees celsius in Melbourne today, and the rest of the country isn’t faring much better. So if you can, we recommend sitting in a cooled room with a cold drink and one of these chilly titles.
The Rosie Project was the most requested book last year at ACT libraries, according to the Age.
Just Say No: an argument for straight-forward rejection letters.
Are you a writer? Read more
