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Long Reads for a Long Weekend

The March long weekend always seems to sneak up when you feel the year is just starting to settle into its routine: summer is over, kids are back at school and the credit card is looking a little weary, then, presto! Up pops another holiday, but this time when you have no plans

Remembering James Aldridge

I first encountered James Aldridge’s books in the Kangaroo Flat Library when I was a braces-wearing, freckled eleven-year-old in zinc cream and Ken Done shorts.

Hannie Rayson’s Hello, Beautiful!
Hello, Beautiful! Hannie Rayson $0.00

I am a playwright. I have spent thirty years pretending to be other people. I lie on the floor in my study and try to imagine I am someone else. It’s exhausting. Right now I am a dying man with drug-resistant tuberculosis.

Jayne Keeney P. I. in Thailand
Behind the Night Bazaar Angela Savage $0.00

Sex. Death. Corruption. Jayne Keeney P. I. on the case in Thailand.

Angela Savage's first Jayne Keeney novel came to our attention when it won the 2004 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript.

The Meaning of Things: Kate Grenville on The Lieutenant
The Lieutenant Kate Grenville $0.00

Jill Fitzsimons, English teacher at Whitefriars College, interviewed Kate Grenville about her novel The Lieutenant, which is a set text for the VCE English 'Encountering Conflict' context.

The Amazing Kelly Link
Get In Trouble Kelly Link $0.00

Kelly Link has been attracting some terrific press for her new collection of stories, Get in Trouble.

Scarlett Thomas in the Read more

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Love notes found between the covers of books at the Strand bookshop.

The love DNA of classic novels: now in handy infographic form!

17 ways to squeeze in a few extra books around the house.

'Oh, I don't need help moving' and other things you won't ever hear a book lover say.

Today, Elsewhere
Second Life S. J. Watson $0.00

I’ve always thought the best ideas are magnetic. One attracts another, they fit together, or meld into something new, and gradually build. S. J. Watson, author of Before I Go to Sleep, on the ideas behind and genesis of his new novel, Read more

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Here's a weekend project: make some DIY quotation-mark bookends.

Take the Harry Potter Sorting Hat quiz! (No cheating to get Gryffindor.)

The illustrated A–Z guide to author wardrobe staples.

Am I a famous writer yet? You can check with this handy infographic.

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Eula Biss’s On Immunity
On Immunity Eula Biss $0.00

'I just read this book called On Immunity: An Inoculation,' says Bill Gates. '[It's] so well written, it’s unbelievable.'

'[Biss] advances from all sides, like a chess player, drawing on science, myth, literature,' says the Read more

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