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The French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe spoke eloquently, and from the heart, this week when he drew forth the words of Erich Maria Remarque to speak of the death and sacrifice of soldiers on the Western Front. Remarque, who fought for Germany during WWI, a decade after the war ended, wrote what quickly became a classic,
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Like James Joyce and other literary exiles, Peter Carey left his homeland to live elsewhere and has never ceased writing about the place he departed. A permanent resident of New York for almost 30 years, Carey, in his 14th novel, offers a densely imagined recreation of the Australia of his youth. It is also one of the
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The National Young Writers’ Festival is entering its 20th year, with the festival giving a designated platform to LGBTIQ writers in its 2017 program. Between September 28 and October 1, artists from around the country will arrive in Newcastle to participate in over 80 events including panels, roundtables, workshops and debates. October 1 will play host
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Scandinavian noir goes south to the Young Adult market in Christoffer Carlsson’s October is the Coldest Month published in Australia by Scribe. In the extract below the 16 year old protagonist, Vega Gillberg, is hunting for clues after her brother Jakob has disappeared. *** On the way back I called Jakob twice, but there was no answer. I needed
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For the comfortable middle class of the western world, politics is usually conscripted for a verbal tournament. It’s rarely a matter of life or death, more a jousting tool over dinner parties or a dance of metaphorical sabre thrusts around the garden barbecue. For 24-year-old Édouard Louis, the most compelling novelist to emerge from the
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Pachyderm is the second novel of Melbourne writer and musician Hugh McGinlay. As part of Daily Review‘s highlighting of work by self-published writers or those produced by small publishers, this novel is published by threekookaburras. McGinlay’s previous novel was Jinx and Pachyderm follows his characters milliner Catherine Kint and her best pal and barman Boris Shakovsky in another Melbourne crime caper. The
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Winners of the 17th Annual Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) were announced at the Art Gallery of NSW last night with The Gold ABIA for Book of the Year and ABIA Fiction Book of the Year won by Jane Harper’s The Dry (Pan Macmillan Australia), a crime novel set in a drought-stricken rural Australia. READ
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Sally Abbott’s debut novel Closing Down (Hachette Australia) imagines Australia in the near future. It’s an Australia in which climate change and its geo-political repercussions have wrought social breakdown in small communities across the country. Abbott will be at the Sydney Writers; Festival this week talking about the novel and she is included on the panel “It’s
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The Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) has announced its 2017 best books of the year shortlist with the winner to be announced on May 25 at the Art Gallery of NSW in Sydney presented by the Australian Publishers Association (APA). The short list is: Biography Book of the Year ● Songs of a War Boy, Deng Adut
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By Raymond Gill
Sally Abbott has spent much of a early life as a journalist working in country towns across several states, so if the adage goes ‘write what you know’, then Abbott has – her novel, Closing Down, released this week, is set in an Australian rural town. But don’t expect this 57 year-old first time novelist who makes her living from
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