Number 3 chiller
‘I choose areas I’d quite like to explore and then the novel’s an excuse for exploring it.’ Margaret Drabble interviewed in the Australian. Margaret Drabble will be a guest of the Perth Writers Festival (February 20-23) and Adelaide Writers' Week (March 1-6).
Rebecca Mead’s lifelong relationship with George Eliot’s most beloved novel forms the basis of The Road to Middlemarch: My Life with George Eliot, which has been striking a chord with readers and reviewers around the world.
Oy, Frankenstein: the five least watchable book-to-movie adaptations.
Cats: peeing on your books since the fifteenth century.
29 things you must read before you get married, if you want to change your mind about the whole marriage thing, maybe?
50 books by women authors to read for #readwomen2014, including Lionel Shriver’s We Need to Talk About Kevin, Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend and Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being—at number 1!
Nobody uses ‘usen’t to’ any more—and the Read more
Now that the first major heatwave has passed, there is officially no way we can delude ourselves that the holidays are still here.
The telemovie adaptation of Peter Temple’s The Broken Shore, starring Don Hany and Claudia Karvan, screens this Sunday 2 February on ABC1.
Read an extract from Rebecca Mead’s book about her love affair with George Eliot’s Middlemarch, The Road to Middlemarch, in the New Yorker. The Road to Middlemarch is out tomorrow.
Judging books by their (UK v US) covers.
Thomas Mallon and Daniel Mendelsohn on the question: Read more
9 video games based on classic literature.
Paragraphs lost: when a bibliophile tries to find a single book in his book-filled house.
Quiz: match the writer to their odd job.
Elementary, my dear Yorick: 10 literary quotes we all get wrong.
It is with great sorrow that we share the news that Boyd Oxlade, author of Death in Brunswick, has passed away.
Boyd Oxlade was born in Sydney, and educated by the Jesuits in Ireland and at Xavier College, Melbourne.
Elizabeth Harrower and Portishead—a perfect literary and music match? Nikki Lusk thinks so.
The ‘common core’ v books: when teachers are unable to foster a love of reading in students.
