Spies come in from Cold War
Former diplomat Sam Guthrie is determined to shift the focus of espionage fiction from Europe to Asia.
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Take your goon sack to the footy? You’re speaking Aussie
An update to the Oxford English Dictionary suggests the English think we’re all a bunch of booze-drinking, footy obsessives Down Under.
Davis has room to shine on stage
Judy Davis returns to the stage for the Belvoir’s adaptation of Helen Garner’s The Spare Room, and other news from the book world
Mystery of the writer who stopped
Helen Trinca’s new book about Elizabeth Harrower; the Peter Blazey fellowship opens, and other news from the book world
Dazzling author lets his writing do the talking
Nobel laureate for literature JM Coetzee has been described as reclusive. Friends say it isn’t so; in person, he’s kind, and interested, but shy.
Stella winner adds to Miles Franklins
News from the book world from literary editor Caroline Overington.
Fond farewell to a truly unique writer
Tracy Sorensen, who has died at 61, wrote two wildly original novels, including one narrated by a tumour inside a body
Come Writers & Critics
An inmate’s memoir, a stunning debut, and more from literary editor Caroline Overington’s wrap of news from the world of books
Take a tour of the outback to this reimagined sheep station
Arkaba used to be a sheep station. The new owners have turned it into a conservatory, meaning it’s being returned to a place where natural sounds of the Australian bush can thrive.
Trent Dalton’s forthcoming novel is his most personal yet
If this announcement – wait, what, a new Trent Dalton novel?! – seems to have come out of nowhere, it has. Few people knew Trent Dalton was writing another book, and he says it came out of him like a fever breaking.
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