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How To Write Your Novel in a Year, and Other Workshops at the Byron Bay Writers Festival

Fancy discovering ways to develop strong and believable characters, with the help of Hannie Rayson? Or learn how to just sit down and write that book in a year, under the guidance of the talented and productive Krissy Kneen?

These are two of the workshops available at Byron Bay

Six Brilliant Books That Would Make Great Films

What happens when you take an absolutely charming and bestselling book, add the brightest Hollywood movie star and mix it with one of the best directors of our time?

It’s got to be awesome, right?

We’re falling over ourselves with delight at the news that Jennifer Lawrence is

A Q&A with Sonja Dechian, Author of An Astronaut’s Life

Sonja Dechian is a writer, editor, and radio and TV producer. She has co-edited two collections of stories about the Australian refugee experience, Dark Dreams and No Place Like Home. Her beautiful and moving debut collection, An Astronaut’s Life, is released today.

Don’t Miss Author and Publisher Jonathan Galassi in Australia

In a few short weeks publishing legend Jonathan Galassi will be visiting our shores to promote his wonderful debut novel, Muse.

The Ten Best Novels for When You Have A Cold

Have you got the winter blues? Cold, tired, achy, bored, depressed?

Rifling through this wonderful collection will make you feel better, even before you start reading a prescribed list of ‘medication’.

Translating the 2014 Nobel Prize Winner Patrick Modiano, by Penny Hueston

Translator and senior editor Penny Hueston introduces the ‘haunting, sometimes hallucinatory tones’ of 2014 Nobel Prize winner, Patrick Modiano, and his forthcoming books Paris Nocturne and Little Jewel.

New Dark and Thrilling YA from Rebecca Lim

Rebecca Lim is the much-loved author of the Mercy series and The Astrologer’s Daughter. Her new book, Afterlight, is a creepy and compulsive thriller with a paranormal edge.

Sophie Teague’s life has fallen apart since her parents died in a freak motorbike accident.

Haunting and Poetic: A Cure for Suicide by Jesse Ball

‘[A Cure for Suicide is] a puzzle box and a haunting love story...Whatever the source of this book’s elusive magic, it should cement Ball’s reputation as a technical innovator whose work delivers a powerful emotional impact.’ STARRED review, Read more

What Do Women Want? Female Desire and Magic Mike XXL

Image from Magic Mike XXL official teaser trailer

Sales and Marketing Director Kirsty Wilson on Magic Mike XXL and what women really want.

After reading Clem Bastow’s utterly joyful review of the new Steven Soderbergh film Read more

Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Letter to His Son

Ta-Nehisi Coates and his son, Samori.

After the Charleston shootings, journalist David Remnick, musician John Legend and others started talking about a powerful new book about the black experience in America: Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me.

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