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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.

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Author Patti Miller has been teaching people how to write their memoirs since 1991. She has had thousands of students from all over Australia attend her courses and has worked with a number of published authors. From 1984 to 1992, Patti was a lecturer in Writing & Literature at the University of Technology and the […]

Shooting Butterflies by Marika Cobbold, published by Allen and Unwin, $29.95, is our Great Read for April. The remarkable thing about this morning was not that it was Grace’s birthday; after all, that occurred once a year so by the time you got to forty you should have ceased to be surprised. Nor was there […]

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 […]

An american author weighs in on the laid-back aussie nature. I thank the customs agent who has graciously allowed me to enter Australia. “No worries,” he says. This stops me for a second. It sounds as if he is absolving me from some sin rather than simply responding to my perfunctory gratitude. In the cab, […]

Angel On My Shoulder – An Autobiography by Natalie Cole, (written with Digby Diehl), Warner Books, $19.95. The Grammy Award-winning singer and daughter of the legendary Nat King Cole dishes up her amazing life story with honesty and bravura. Told in straightforward and simple prose, Cole resembles a prize fighter the way she manages to […]

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 […]