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Paula Weston’s US blog tour
Shadows Paula Weston $0.00 Haze Paula Weston $0.00 Shimmer Paula Weston $0.00

Paula Weston, author of the Rephaim series, has been touring US blogs to promote book two, Haze, which has just been released in North America.

Today, Elsewhere
A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing Eimear McBride $0.00

This list of ten experimental novels everyone should read leads with Eimear McBride's A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing.

What are your 'signature words'?

Writing tips on how to imitate your favourite writers in a thoughtful way.

Today, Elsewhere
This House of Grief Helen Garner $0.00

A funny Q&A with Helen Garner, author of This House of Grief, over at the Justinian.

Did you know that the New Yorker won't use the word 'gotten'?

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Today, Elsewhere
The Snow Kimono Mark Henshaw $0.00

'I wanted to show that we are inextricably linked in terms of our human experience with people we don't even know.' Mark Henshaw, author of The Snow Kimono, is interviewed by Susan Wyndham in the Sydney Morning Herald.

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10 unusual and beautiful public libraries.

Real perfumes for fictional people.

All of Kate Bush's studio albums reimagined as books.

Quiz: Can you guess the book from the first line in emoji form?

6 reactions book lovers have to people who don't read.

Writer: the game.

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Today, Elsewhere
Silence Once Begun Jesse Ball $0.00

'Saying almost anything as well as you can say it, or doing anything properly and with your whole being, is a political act.' Jesse Ball, author of Silence Once Begun, interviewed for the Paris Review blog.

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Today, Elsewhere
The Snow Kimono Mark Henshaw $0.00

'Gripping...Like a Japanese puzzle, prized for their infinite solutions and depth of revelation, each chapter builds on the one before, unfolding through levels of story to unpack deeper and deeper truths...

Today, Elsewhere
Game Changer Paul McNamee $0.00

'Good on ya, Macca!': Paul McNamee's Game Changer reviewed in the New York Journal of Books.

‘How I Saved the World’ Writing Competition Winners
The Firebird Mystery Darrell Pitt $0.00

Nellie Gray, a Year 7 student at Vincentia High School in NSW, is the winner of Text's 'How I Saved the World' writing competition.

Students were tasked with writing an imaginative story of up to 500 words about how they saved the world.

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