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Handsome, smart, adventurous and philothranthopic? Stand back girls, 26-year-old Sebastian Terry is too busy zipping all over our fair planet achieving extraordinary things to stop for a quick flirtatious chat. Alas. This brand new author, with a degree in Human Movement, is certainly a jack of all trades. Having held almost 100 jobs in his…Read More
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‘Write what you know.’ It’s the often repeated mantra of creative writing teachers the world over, but according to best-selling author Kate Forsyth, it does have its merits: “As writers, we can’t help but express our own philosophies of life.” This is certainly true of Kate’s work. Although many of her novels are set in…Read More
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In 2000, Kay Danes and her husband Kerry, endured 10 months of wrongful imprisonment and torture in Laos. Waiting for the Australian government to secure their freedom, Kay witnessed the untold suffering of prisoners, many detained for years without trial and with little or no contact with family. Kay promised that if she survived that…Read More
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On February 4, 2009 I woke up to find that my husband had died in his sleep from an undetected heart condition. He was forty-nine years old. I was thirty-nine. It was the biggest shock of my life. The first two hours were a blur of emotion, pain, fear, shock, and denial. The next two…Read More
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Kim Scott is this year’s winner of the prestigious Miles Franklin Literary Award. At the Miles Franklin Award dinner held at the State Library of Victoria last night, the multi-award winning author received his second Miles Franklin Literary Award for That Deadman Dance. Speaking on behalf of the 2011 judging panel, Morag Fraser AM, said:…Read More
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Interested in self-publishing a children’s book? Want to know if it’s worth it and if you can remain sane in the process? Well, what do they say about working with animals and children? Toss that into a blender with endless days at the computer and even more endless days promoting and marketing one teensy book,…Read More
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Caroline Overington has some stories to tell. Her novels, first Ghost Child and now I Came to Say Goodbye, speak of families struggling and battling their demons, and of children as victims amidst it all. These are difficult subjects – parents harming their children and the systems in place in Australia to deal with such…Read More
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Fleur McDonald is an author with her feet firmly on the land that she loves working with. Beginning her farming career straight out of boarding school, McDonald found herself working one hundred kilometres west of Esperance in Western Australia within a year. While working there, McDonald met her now-husband, Anthony. She says, “It’s a funny…Read More
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As a woman who gave birth to her first child at the age of 18, I can’t even imagine what it’s like to want a child and not be able to have one. In a society that values it’s working families, it must be heart breaking to be constantly reminded that for whatever reason, you…Read More
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As a teenager in the 1960s, Ellen Mary Wilton (pictured), spent a year at a Muslim girls boarding school in the ancient Egyptian city of Alexandria. For years Ellen has fascinated audiences with her insights and experience of Islamic culture in the Middle East. But up until now, she has resisted all calls to retell…Read More
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