The impact of Darren Groth’s charming new Young Adult novel Are You Seeing Me? should be seismic. If it doesn’t cause a major publishing tremor similar to that caused by The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion, I swear I’ll watch Jackie Chan* movies back to back for a week (no cakewalk, for me, I’ve got
Squealing bats in suburbia, Shakespeare’s Iago talking firkins and vespiaries, Australian writer Dorothy Hewett stuck in a railway car toilet, and a sermonette in which a Jehovah’s Witness has froth at the corners of his lips “white light humming” … Mark O’Flynn’s first short story collection explores the spectrum of human experience. “Bats squeal in the trees,
I reread On Chesil Beach last weekend and it’s still one of the saddest and most beautiful books I know. Ian McEwan’s work has great soul; such a gift to our world. Other books I’ve happily revisited in the last two months include: Looking for Alibrandi (Melina Marchetta) I was given a pretty presentation copy
My story “Pelts” is being published in Spineless Wonders’ poem/micro-fiction anthology Writing To The Edge later in June. I’m in great company as the anthology includes invited authors and finalists from the 2013 joanne burns Award, judged by novelist and creative writing lecturer Shady Cosgrove. Ms Cosgrove said the anthology contains “tight, thoughtful writing that
The eight stories in Lorrie Moore’s new collection Bark may not have the dazzling urgency of pieces from earlier collections but they do leave traces as if you’ve been bitten. Why? They broach dark territory with light relief Moore wades straight in to the mess of human disappointment, disillusionment and dislocation with characters that are
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