There’s a marvelous typo towards the end of ON JAVA ROAD, the sleekly satisfying new novel by Lawrence Osborne: “They’ll be hanging like ghosts in your wordrobe filling you with guilt”.
It’s fitting rather than a flaw and one can …
Bernadette Brennan has won the 2022 National Biography Award for Leaping into Waterfalls: The enigmatic Gillian Mears (A&U).
Brennan receives $25,000, while the other shortlisted authors receive $2000 each.
Judges Suzanne Falkiner, Rick Morton and Mandy Sayer called Leaping into …
“Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you”. Oprah Winfrey
Joe Matera’s book came through the post with an invitation to review. I took to the book easily because I identified a kindred spirit. …
At the most recent Dymocks Literary luncheon for his new book SO YOU WANT TO LIVE YOUNGER LONGER? Norman Swan did not discuss Covid19 but the topic was about health in a more general sense.
Of all the Sydney medical …
WONDERDOG is about how the scientific research into dog behaviour influences research into human behaviour. This is a fascinating book – fascinating because of what’s in it, and because of what’s not in it.
What’s not in it? For example, …
This is a relatively medium sized book in volume, divided into five parts with an introduction .There are fourteen chapters in the first four sections , the last section consisting of ‘occasional pieces’ .An index , notes and bibliography are …
“I did not choose to become a dancer, I was chosen, and with that you live all your life” Martha Graham
This is a relatively medium sized book, rather small perhaps, written in a dense but erudite style, crammed full …
SBS is looking to unearth a new crop of talented Australian writers, with the return of the SBS Emerging Writers’ Competition for 2022.
An initiative from SBS Voices, the competition aims to uncover bold new voices that reflect the diversity …
Acclaimed writer and poet Cate Kennedy has won the 2022 Furphy Literary Award with her entry ‘Art and Life’. As the winner of one of the richest short story writing prizes in Australia, Kennedy was awarded a $15,000 cash prize …
A Monash University exhibition will highlight the benefits of incorporating Indigenous ways of knowing with practice-led research.
Presented by the Wominjeka Djeembana Indigenous Research Lab, the Barreeng Yirramboi exhibition will launch on Tuesday, 19 July, with a symposium and showcase …