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A video of Hugh Laurie and the rest of the cast of Mr. Pip, the film of Lloyd Jones' brilliant Mister Pip, at the film’s premiere at Toronto International Film Festival.
After the controversy of paid and ‘sock puppet’ reviews, here is a defence of online reader reviews.
Judge approves ebook pricing settlement between government and publishers.
Philip Roth tries to correct the Wikipedia page on his novel The Human Stain, is rejected because they require ‘secondary sources’, writes open letter to Wikipedia.
In the New York Times, Read more
56 Broken Kindle Screens: a print-on-demand book of found photos of broken Kindle screens.
A ranking of literary devils by their relative fearsomeness.
Here’s a century of bookmobiles, and here’s to a century more.
The finalists in the Melbourne Prize for Literature 2012 have been announced, and we’re delighted that three of our authors—Peter Temple, Wayne Macauley and Craig Sherborne—are on the list.
‘Beautiful Evidence’ by Thomas Allen: more gorgeous book art.
The books from The Royal Tenenbaums. It is sad that we can never read Old Custer.
You might think you’re sick of gif tumblrs, but I think you’re probably not quite there yet.
‘I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now…’ C.S. Lewis
As I Lay Frying, a site for all your literary-quotes-with-pictures-of-doughnuts needs.
Patrick White died in 1990, more than two decades ago. In that time sales of his novels have dwindled almost to nothing. His work is barely taught in our universities or schools.
Zane Lovitt’s debut, The Midnight Promise: A Detective’s Story in Ten Cases, is a brilliant hardboiled crime novel set in Melbourne. We asked Zane about his inspirations and his advice to aspiring writers.
The Midnight Promise is your first novel.
Congratulations to Kate Grenville and Vikki Wakefield, both shortlisted authors in the just-announced Queensland Literary Awards!
Kate Grenville’s Sarah Thornhill has been shortlisted for the Fiction Award, and Vikki Wakefield’s Read more
C'mon, kids, let’s all go to the book bindery!
Quebec’s garden of decaying books.
Doodling on the faces of famous writers. Is it just me or does DH Lawrence look great with all that extra hair?
Very cute jungle bookmarks.
A fantastic Read more
