BY any measure, it was an unglamorous start to a literary career. Two years ago, Aaron Blabey, who had just turned his back on a flourishing acting career, started work on his first children’s book — writing on a toilet roll.
TWO years ago, Aaron Blabey chucked in a flourishing acting career. Soon after, he wrote his first children’s book, with another surprising twist.
ON the promotional trail for the new Sex and the City film, one of the leading ladies was in an unusually confessional mood.
WHEN author Robert Newton visits schools, the teachers, naturally enough, want him to discuss his fiction.
DURING a lunchtime adjournment, barrister Sarah Huggett sits at her computer in a horsehair wig, breastfeeding her infant. Crown prosecutor Frank Holles bursts out of the hatch of an army fighting vehicle, his horsehair wig half camouflaging his eyebrows.
WHEN Anita Amirrezvani gives speeches about her acclaimed debut novel, The Blood of Flowers, she tells her audiences: “I was born in the axis of evil and raised by the Great Satan.”
NINE Network executives, still choking on the banning of television crime drama Underbelly in Victoria, can only look on enviously as the tie-in book flies off the shelves there. Underbelly cannot be screened in Victoria because of a court ruling that it could influence a gangland murder trial. Yet the book Underbelly: The Gangland War, by crime reporting duo John Silvester and Andrew Rule, is available nationally and selling like hotcakes. One month after its mid-January release, it went into a third print run.
UNDERAGE sex can be a positive experience that makes many prostitutes “more comfortable and assertive” with their sexuality, according to a new book that draws on taxpayer-funded research.
INDIGENOUS communities must disown the violent aspects of their traditional culture or face “cultural oblivion,” warns the prominent playwright and screenwriter, Louis Nowra.
IT is a “national disgrace” that so many Australian novels, from classics to recent Miles Franklin prize-winners, are out of print, says eminent novelist David Malouf.
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