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Craig Sherborne’s second novel, Tree Palace, is ‘a novel as beautiful in its conjunctions as the chandelier swinging over its landscapes,’ writes Felicity Plunkett in the Australian.
True Detective, if it were a series of Hardy Boys books.
I saw the best minds of my generation
Destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked
See me and hope I’m intoxicated or slightly faded
18 famous literary first lines perfectly paired with rap lyrics.
‘Sherborne had me at chapter one. Yes this comes down to the writing, which is, quite simply, sublime, but it goes further than that…This is timeless, universal storytelling that is nonetheless quintessentially Australian.’ Craig Sherborne’s new novel, Read more
‘She was my mask, my elsewhere, my alibi.’ Jay Griffiths on Frida Kahlo and what inspired her to write A Love Letter From a Stray Moon.
Geoff Dyer on robust health, moving to California and having a stroke, anyway.
What happens in a book auction?
N+1 continues their investigation into Amazon.
‘An immensely satisfying book, one that rewards slow and careful reading, it confirms his status as a writer of the highest caliber’: Murray Bail’s The Voyage reviewed in the New York Times.
Book editors do actually edit books, despite what you may have heard.
‘A delightful take on what it means to be family’: Craig Sherborne’s Tree Palace reviewed on the Hoopla.
‘Write what you know'—helpful advice or idle cliché?
Nobody tells you, “This is how to edit. Follow these steps.” A Read more
This incredible debut novel is a sensation: since its publication, A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing has received rapturous critical acclaim, with all reviewers agreeing that it is a book unlike any other.
‘Fiction that matches the complexity of history’: Rabih Alameddine’s An Unnecessary Woman in the New York Review of Books.
Your book sucks: are authors being bullied by one-star Amazon reviews?
The neurological similarities between successful writers and the mentally ill.
