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Category Archives: Books
The Book that Changed Me
The opening session at the Newcastle Writers Festival was titled The Book that Changed Me with Helen Garner, Michael Robotham and Jessica Rudd in conversation with Caroline Baum. Baum led the way through a glad bag of topics, and at … Continue reading
Newcastle Writers Festival 20-22 March
This year’s lineup at the 2015 Newcastle Writers Festival at Newcastle City Hall will thrill any book lover. A taste of the talent: Helen Garner, Marion Halligan, Favel Parrett, Bob Brown, Michael Robotham, Les Murray, and proudly standing alongside them … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Newcastle Writers Festival
Tagged authors, books, Helen Garner, Newcastle Writers Festival, writing
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All is Not Well on the Australian Literary Front
Last Monday the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards Fiction Prize was split between Richard Flanagan for The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Steven Carroll for A World of Other People. When Richard Flanagan gave the $40,000 prize money he … Continue reading
Posted in Books, fiction
Tagged books, fiction, Louise Adler, Prime Minister's Literary Awards, Richard Flanagan, Steven Carroll
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Richard Flanagan on his Man Booker winner
Breaking News: Richard Flanagan won the 2014 Man Booker with his novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North. This morning I listened to his interview with Guardian Books. The first thing that struck me was here was someone who … Continue reading
Posted in Books, fiction
Tagged fiction, form, Man Booker, Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North
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Expanding the Moment
Sometimes I come across a passage of writing that stops time. It’s a magical moment where the writing creates a strange paradox: the words go on but time itself stops long enough for me to observe this expanded, intense and … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Writing
Tagged All the Birds Singing, details, Evie Wyld, Janette Turner Hospital, significant detail, The Claimant, time, writing, writing skills
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What is Time?
Two things happened last weekend that made me question Time. Firstly, I heard Jeanette Winterson discuss time at the Sydney Opera House. She grew up in a household that lived in End Time. When Mrs Winterson had drills to practice … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Reading, Writing
Tagged Cloud Atlas, Constellations, Eternity Playhouse, Jeanette Winterson, reading, time, Virginia Woolf
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David Malouf at Sydney Writers’ Festival
Sydney Theatre. 11.30 am. 22 May, 2014 The auditorium lights faded. Enter stage right, David Malouf. Australian Book Review’s first laureate. Multiple literary award winner, including the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. Man Booker short-lister. Enter Tegan Bennett Daylight. Interviewer. One of … Continue reading
Posted in Books
Tagged A First Place, character, David Malouf, form, structure, Sydney Writers' Festival, Tegan Bennett Daylight, Writing process
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Alex Miller at the SYDNEY WRITERS’ FESTIVAL
Hornsby Library, 21st May 2014 You would expect when an insightful author like Alex Miller stands up to talk to his readers he would make us think. Not only did he succeed, but more importantly, he made us feel. First … Continue reading
Posted in Books
Tagged Alex Miller, clarity, Coal Creek, novel, Sydney Writers' Festival, truth, Women's prison
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Books are Bad for You
There is no way someone who lives books, reading and writing can ignore a column piece called Books are Bad for You. My hackles go up immediately and I’m ready to argue with its author, Howard Jacobson, before I’ve even … Continue reading
Launch of ‘Mirrors – The Writing Workshop Anthology’
There’s nothing quite like the excitement and buzz that surrounds the launch of a book. The hard work is done. The clumps of hair you ripped out in despair have grown back. Your friends and family are here and are … Continue reading