Number 3 chiller
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.
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Laurie Halse Anderson’s latest novel, The Impossible Knife of Memory, is ‘a riveting study of a psychologically scarred teenager, peeling back layers of internal defenses to reveal a girl’s deepest wounds,’ says Publishers Weekly.
The Text office will be closed from the afternoon of 24 December 2013, reopening on 6 January 2014.
In the meantime, we wish you a happy and safe holiday season.
This is our last #fridayfrivolity of the year. We’ll revel in literary oddities again in 2014. Have a safe and happy holiday!
14 places to talk to a stranger about books.
‘David Ireland offers a fiercely brilliant comic portrait of Australia in the grip of a dehumanising labour system’: The Unknown Industrial Prisoner, reviewed.
In praise of little books: a nod to the internet’s ‘too long; didn’t read’ syndrome.
Daniel Bergner, author of What Do Women Want?, spoke to Guernica about lust, the myth of female monogamy, and why ‘voyeurism is essential to good writing’.
‘Bitter Wash Road continues the work of reimagining the crime genre in a very Australian way, and does it beautifully.’ Sue Turnbull reviews Garry Disher’s latest novel in the Sydney Morning Herald.
Famous writers’ sleep habits v literary productivity, visualised.
In reading Margaret Drabble’s latest novel, The Pure Gold Baby, ‘sometimes, you stumble across a sentence so exact and lyrical it stops you short,’ says the Guardian.
