Creative Australia has revealed the shortlist for the 2025 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, the richest literary prize in the nation. The awards celebrate the exceptional talents of emerging and established Australian writers, illustrators, poets, and historians.
The Prime Minister’s Literary …
Japanese healing fiction seems to be a new niche in publishing. Offering cosy comfort for some, suggesting wanky woke woo woo in others, I’m sure.
Forget the labelling, the marketing, any initial adverse reaction to this advertising is averted and …
Long live the short form fiction. Not that it shows any sign of dying, in fact it is enjoying rude health from a number of highly skilled practitioners. From a long list of eleven short stories selected from over 1,200 …
On the eightieth anniversary year of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it is interesting to reflect a third “bomb” that specifically rendered the Japanese surrender.
In the August edition of the Australian Book Review, the lead essay, Without …
Asymptotic, hypnotic, mythic, YILKARI, co-written by the prize-winning author Nicolas Rothwell and his wife, the acclaimed artist Alison Nampitjinpa Anderson, captivatingly defies classification.
YILKARI reads like a rodeo – the dust, the light, the tension, the undercurrents, the constant moving, …
A whole new system of thinking about political economy or a simple blueprint to solve all of America’s problems?
Walk ins welcome. Defectors encouraged.
It’s not a shingle openly displayed on diplomatic outposts, but the traitor’s gates are always open. Then it’s a process of determining the enfumage, which in espionage parlance means a fake person or …
…Somehow, throughout the war, Hiroshima stood untouched. Military leaders were mystified considering it was the major staging site for embarkation for Japanese activism in South-East Asia and China. War industries, military installations, submarine pens and 50,000 servicemen were located
A BEAUTIFUL FAMILY is the beautifully ironic title of Jennifer Trevelyan’s debut novel.
It’s the summer of 85/86 and a family of four, mum, dad and their two daughters trek from Wellington to the Kapiti coast of New Zealand for …
After reading the huge tome The Great War for Civilization, some readers may conclude that the book lacks any real political perspective but that’s why further reading opens an exploration of different realities. The book suffers from being …