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‘Brutal and touching detail’: The Lost Child reviewed in the Guardian.
Lloyd Jones’s memoir, A History of Silence, is ‘a knockout…one of the bravest and best-written memoirs I have read’, says Nicholas Shakespeare in his five-star review in the Telegraph.
When lit becomes a science: culturomics and results-based reading.
Celebrated novelist Rana Dasgupta’s first work of non-fiction, Capital: A Portrait of Twenty-First Century Delhi, is the inside story of India’s fastest-growing megacity.
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Clare Wright’s The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka has been shortlisted in the 2014 Stella Prize. Clare spoke to the Age about gender equality in literature and her own brand of ‘retail sabotage’.
Clare Wright’s remarkable history of one of Australia’s foundation legends, The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka, has been shortlisted in the 2014 Stella Prize.
Now in its second year, the Stella Prize aims to recognise great books by Australian women.
Darrell Pitt on writing The Firebird Mystery: A Jack Mason Adventure, over at Readings.
New words added to the Oxford English Dictionary in March include beatboxer, bestie and c**ted.
Emrys Westacott: Why Amazon reminds me of the British Empire.
Eleanor Learmonth and Jenny Tabakoff, authors of No Mercy : True Stories of Disaster, Survival and Brutality, in the Independent on our dark and bloody history of disaster.
‘Try to break them, every single one’: on the rules of writing.
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‘If you had to argue for the merits of one Australian book, one piece of writing, what would it be?’ The case for Henry Handel Richardson’s The Getting of Wisdom.
