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Watch Graeme Simsion, author of The Rosie Project, on ABC TV’s The Business, discussing the business of writing (from 19.40).
Literary confessions: what books have you not read?
Cartoonist Bob Eckstein drew his favourite bookshops for the New Yorker.
Harvard confirms book is bound in human skin. (This headline makes me happier than it should.)
‘I grow pissed…I grow pissed…’ More drunk texts from famous authors.
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Eimear McBride has won the 2014 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction for her debut novel, A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing.
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Liao Yiwu, author of For a Song and a Hundred Songs, remembers the Tiananmen massacre, 25 years on.
Listen to Darrell Pitt, author of The Firebird Mystery, discuss WWII steampunk, Sherlock Holmes homages and self-publishing.
To celebrate the release of the second Jack Mason Adventure book, The Secret Abyss, Text Publishing and your school’s local bookshop are offering you the chance to win $1000 worth of books for your school and $100 worth of books for yourself!
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‘His command of extravagant action and idiom never flags.’ Peter Pierce on Chris Flynn’s new novel, The Glass Kingdom, in the Australian.
This Atlantic piece will give you some useful background information on the Hachette/Amazon tussle.
10 writers and their favourite drinks.
Men can be muses, too, you know.
The novel is dead, apparently, so it should probably have an epitaph or two.
John Green tells us 47 charming facts about children’s books.
Watch Graeme Simsion, author of The Rosie Project, discuss his wins at the ABIA awards, the sequel to his international bestseller and the plans for the movie on ABC News Breakfast.
Why the short story is the perfect literary form for the 21st century.
