The Waiting Room is an intense portrait of a woman unravelling and an intriguing study of the complexity of the mother-daughter bond. It also explores the legacy of the Holocaust and the ripple effect of its damage: How hard is it for a child of a Holocaust survivor to carve out her own identity? What
Here’s my project. I read a poem a day, imbibe its rhythms and use this as an inspiration for my own writing. Because it’s 2016, I’ll choose 16 quotes from 16 of these poems to feature on A Bigger Brighter World so you’ll get to enjoy a taste of them too. I may not manage
Acclaimed Indigenous author Anita Heiss knows reading opens doors. Her own books and her work with the Indigenous Literacy Foundation are helping to break down barriers and getting good books into the Australian communities that need them most. Harry’s Secret is her latest creative contribution to this important cause. In 2015 you released Harry’s Secret, which
What are we talking about? Wild Chicory is the accomplished first novella from Australian author Kim Kelly. It follows several generations of the Kennedy family as they move from the coast of County Kerry in Ireland to rural New South Wales and the slums of Sydney’s Surry Hills. Nell Kennedy comes to Australia as a
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