Articles tagged “today elsewhere”
'She has a gift for relating even life's most calamitous events in matter-of-fact prose, and in doing so laying bare their true devastation.' Mary Costello's Academy Street reviewed in the Financial Times.
'Text has done Australian readers a service putting Rohan's book back in print.' The Sydney Morning Herald on Criena Rohan's The Delinquents, now a Text Classic.
Mary Costello's Academy Street has won Book of the Year in the Irish Book Awards! Listen to an interview with Mary on ABC Radio National's Books and Arts Daily.
'Like pushing an elephant into a Volkswagen': Read more
'This novel is a masterpiece of war fiction.' Text Classic The Long Green Shore reviewed in Publishers Weekly.
'Productive writers reject the notion of "writer’s block" the way others shun gluten.' Read more
'I have a bottle of Scotch in my bag. Would you care for some?' Francis Plug, star of Paul Ewen's How to Be a Public Author, offers advice on how to talk to famous authors.
Simon Barnard's second career choice seems strange, but I suppose shouldn't be so surprising, given his choice of book subject.
'Francis Plug is the funniest book I've read in ages': Paul Ewen's novel Francis Plug: How to Be a Public Author reviewed in The Sunday Times.
What separates the books we talk about from those we don't talk about?
'Ms Harrower is one of the great Australian writers of the postwar era...Much like her chilling 1966 novel, The Watch Tower, [Read more
This list of ten experimental novels everyone should read leads with Eimear McBride's A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing.
What are your 'signature words'?
Writing tips on how to imitate your favourite writers in a thoughtful way.
'I wanted to show that we are inextricably linked in terms of our human experience with people we don't even know.' Mark Henshaw, author of The Snow Kimono, is interviewed by Susan Wyndham in the Sydney Morning Herald.