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Here is the full transcript of our interview with Jeana Vithoulas, author of the September Great Read, Love Begins with an A. **Q You’ve done a lot of jobs, worked as a union official, an interpreter, university tutor – were you always going to be a writer? A** Yes, I was always going to write […]

Julie Parsons was born in New Zealand but has lived most of her adult life in Ireland. Her fourth book, The Guilty Heart, has been selected as the Great Read in the August issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly. It is a gripping psychological thriller and a ‘must’ for all Minette Walters and Ruth Rendell […]

Full Fathom Five, by Kate Humphrey Flamingo, $29.95 The dark stormy night beloved of many mysteries is critical for a poor farming family. Their father, an erratically brilliant artist, is found hanging from a cliff face. What this means to Sara, who hasn’t left home for five years, her three brothers and wayward step-sister is […]

Louise Limerick is author of Dying For Cake (Pan Macmillan Australia), the Great Read in the May issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly.

Marika Cobbold’s Shooting Butterflies, published by Allen and Unwin, rrp $29.95, is this month’s Great Read. Look out for it in bookshops with our Great Read sticker on the cover. Q: When did you know you want to be a writer? A: Not until I was in my mid twenties. I grew up in a […]

The word is out… The Sydney Writers’ Festival (May 19-25), will feature an all-star line-up of 150 writers from Australia and the world. Most of the festival unfolds at Wharf 4/5 Hickson Road, Walsh Bay with these writers already lined up: Janette Turner Hospital, Iain Banks, Augusten Burroughs, Robert Dessaix, Jackie French, Louis Nowra and […]

Belinda Alexandra’s White Gardenia (HarperCollins), has been selected as the Great Read in the November issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly.(see page 303). Her debut novel is based on the true life story of her Russian mother, who was forced to flee China at the outbreak of WWII and eventually made her way to Australia. […]

Having trouble getting a publisher or literary agent to read your manuscript? The sad fact is that the majority of people involved in the business of books do not have time to read unsolicited manuscripts. Here are some hot tips from some of Australia’s top publishers and The Australian Women’s Weekly Book Club From The […]