Driving out of a cavernous IKEA car park a couple of months ago I glimpsed a fleeting movement in the shadows. This prompted me to think about abandoned landscapes and I really liked the idea that such “dead space” might contain life known to none other than those inhabiting it. The tale of the three
Perth writer M. L. Stedman’s The Light Between Oceans has been awarded Book of the Year at the 2013 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs). Kate Morton’s The Secret Keeper won General Fiction Book of the Year. Award winners, announced on May 24 at the Four Seasons, Sydney, included: Chain/Franchise Bookseller of the Year 2013: Dymocks
“When you share a book, you’re sharing more than just pages of paper and ink. You’re sharing the opportunity to learn, discover and feel cared for.” The Footpath Library donates near-new and new books to homeless and marginalised people. Its vision is to enrich the quality of life for homeless and disadvantaged people and promote
The Commonwealth Foundation has announced the regional winners for the 2013 Commonwealth Book Prize and Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Regional Winner, Pacific, for the Commonwealth Book Prize is The Last Thread by Michael Sala (Affirm Press). Awarded for best first book, the prize was open to writers who had their first novel (full length work
Three diverse books about “travel” have made me a thoughtful, happy wanderer on the first leg of my trip through Germany, Italy, Spain and Andorra this European spring. I’ve been doing a lot of walking (right now I’m in the Andorran Pyrenees) and, as I also want to focus more on my poetry in coming
These days I’m travelling overseas so Romy Ash’s novel Floundering held some travel narrative synergy and a touch of nostalgia for Australia’s ragged landscape. Two sons are being driven to an uncertain destination by their mother (who asks the boys to call her Loretta) in a car “yellow, brown and bubbled with rust” they call
The all-female finalists for the Miles Franklin Literary Award are Carrie Tiffany for Mateship with Birds (Picador), Michelle de Kretser for Questions of Travel (Allen & Unwin), Romy Ash for Floundering (Text Publishing), Annah Faulkner for The Beloved (Picador) and Drusilla Modjeska for The Mountain (Vintage). The prize is awarded for the novel judged to
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