Radio National recently lifted the lid on the Australian book publishing slush pile, that 'unlovely place' (according to Picador publisher Geordie Williamson) where unsolicited manuscripts go for assessment by an anonymous reader…
[F]irst novels that reshape familiar historical material with originality and dash; sustain their strange tales with assurance; move confidently between countries and eras, intimate and national histories; offer two more…
Here's my client Jenny Ackland's wrap-up of the launch of her novel The Secret Son a few days ago. It was a large crowd at the Bella Union in Melbourne. Jenny…
The Secret Son explores the provocative idea that Australian bushranger Ned Kelly had a son James, who not only fought in Gallipoli, but stayed in Turkey and lived out his…