Do you need to have read George Eliot’s Middlemarch to be a fully realised human being? Rebecca Mead, author of The Road to Middlemarch, believes so — and says she is barely exaggerating in making her claim. Mead is a British-born author and New Yorker journalist whose love affair with George Eliot’s famed work began
The Stella Prize, a major literary award celebrating Australian women’s writing, this week announced the 2014 Stella Prize longlist: Letter to George Clooney by Debra Adelaide Moving Among Strangers by Gabrielle Carey Burial Rites by Hannah Kent Night Games by Anna Krien Mullumbimby by Melissa Lucashenko The Night Guest by Fiona McFarlane Boy, Lost by
Forget defying old age by wearing purple. The septuagenarian and her coterie at the heart of this humorous novel have far more extreme acts of rebellion in mind. What are we talking about? The latest novel from Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg, featuring some spirited seniors on a madcap quest for a better life. Elevator pitch … Who
In 2012, 20,000 copies of her book A Ripple in Time were downloaded on Kindle devices in just five days. UK author, Julia Hughes, tells ABBW about shaping griffins, marketing e-books, finding inspiration in her village that has strong ANZAC connections, enjoying Aussie band, The Go-Betweens … and offering you two of her books free
Just as a city built on swamp and peat is vulnerable — so, too, is a family built on secrets and silences. New Zealand author, Lloyd Jones, said the earthquake that hit Christchurch on February 22, 2011, cracked the city open “like an eggshell”. Five weeks later, he visited the city and found it was
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