Number 3 chiller
It was a weekend of fanfare for Danielle Wood’s Housewife Superstar: The Very Best of Marjorie Bligh and the star of the book herself.
Marjorie Bligh, housewife superstar, offers a pronunciation guide to tricksy food terms:
Au gratin (or-grar-tan)
Bisque (bisk)
Bechamel (Beshamel)
Bolognese (bol-on-asee)
Bouillon (Boo-yawn)
Cafe au Lait (Kafay-o-lay)
Canape (can-a-pay)
Chantilly (shahnte-yi)
Coq Au Vin
Liao Yiwu, Chinese dissident, poet, musician and author of The Corpse Walker and Other True Stories of Life in China, will finally be in Australia in November.
Tiny DIY books made by Victorian tweens.
Here’s a playlist of songs about books and authors.
In time for Halloween, here are some literary pumpkins.
Geoff Dyer opens a series in the Guardian on how to write fiction.
Danielle Wood came in to the office on Friday to celebrate the arrival of finished copies of her book, Housewife Superstar.
Housewife Superstar is the life story of eccentric Tasmanian domestic goddess, Marjorie Bligh.
Follow our #fridayfrivolity tag on twitter every Friday to find funny and interesting links to things book-related.
Some more great words with no English equivalent (we’re definitely going to need to use ‘tartle’ a lot).
Helen Hodgman is the author of Blue Skies and Jack and Jill, both recently republished by Text. Blue Skies was Helen’s debut novel, originally published in 1976; her follow-up, Jack and Jill, won the Somerset Maugham Award.
The Text Publishing Company seeks an experienced and highly motivated Production Coordinator/Designer to manage the delivery of print and ebooks.
You can’t understand Australian publishing without knowing about Diana Gribble.
She came to publishing almost by accident. Born in 1942, she grew up in a boisterous, supportive family where the key idea was to chip in. As a child she contracted rheumatic fever.
