by Janine Rizzetti | Feb 22, 2017 | Round-ups
Non-fiction has a strong presence on this year’s Stella Prize longlist, with eight works of non-fiction, three novels and a collection of short stories in contention. In announcing the longlist Brenda Walker, the chair of the Judges Panel, noted the importance of...
by Debbie Robson | Jun 20, 2016 | Round-ups
We have 18 reviews this month of 18 books by 15 authors. A little bit up from last month which is good but I’m hoping for more next month so get those To Be Read books out and open. Now let’s see what we’ve all been reading in May. The three authors...
by Debbie Robson | Feb 15, 2016 | Round-ups
A good start to 2016 with 20 reviews and a lot of books that I haven’t seen reviewed before. It’s February but I’m still having trouble getting used to 2016. I keep writing 2006! Am I the only one? To kick this roundup off we are going back a few...
by Elizabeth Lhuede | Mar 28, 2012 | News
(Imported from Blogger; formatting glitches need to be fixed) Congratulations to all the writers longlisted for this year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award including the following: Charlotte Wood, Animal People Favel Parrett, Past the Shallows Gillian Mears,...
by Elizabeth Lhuede | Jan 31, 2012 | Guest Posts, Reviews
Last year I stood in the authors’ green room at the Brisbane Writers Festival while friend and author Veny Armanno introduced me to one of my writing heroes, Kate Grenville. I’m not sure what I gabbled out: whether I told her about the snail-mail fan letter I’d sent...
