Sunday, June 21, 2015

Books featured in Sydney Morning Herald

Judy Blume turns to a tragic story from her teenage years for her latest book.

Karen Heller 12:15am The women, and even a few men, line the hallway of her publisher's offices, waiting to meet Judy Blume, beloved author of 29 books, with an astonishing 86 million copies in print.

Hannah Rothschild's tale of art, love and deception

<i>La Surprise 1718 </i>, by Jean-Antoine Watteau (French, 1684-1721).
Daphne Guinness 12:15am Hannah Rothschild's debut novel is a savage satire on the art world.

Books that changed me: Paul West

Paul West, host of River Cottage Australia and author of The River Cottage Australia Cookbook 12:15am Paul West is a cook and small farmer on the NSW South Coast and presents the TV series River Cottage Australia on the Lifestyle Food channel. He is the author of The River Cottage Australia Cookbook (Bloomsbury), which features his recipes and presents his philosophy of sustainable food production. 

The ecstatic thrill of reading kickstarts life of writing

The Tintin stories were Luke Davies' Thuy On 12:15am Which author confessed that reading The Diary of Anne Frank gave her "an electric shock" upon receiving it for her 11th birthday?

Book reviews

Take three reviews of Red Icon, The Cellar, The Slaughter Man

Take Three dinkus Jeff Popple 11:45pm Jeff Popple looks at hot new titles in crime fiction.

Travel writer Dervla Murphy tells her most harrowing story

x Rosamund Burton After more than 50 years of travel, Dervla Murphy is calling it quits.

Crowdfunding: the joy of holding a book you helped create.

Marcus Westbury successfully crowdfunded his book Creating Cities. Jane Sullivan There are a lot of unusual things about Paul Kingsnorth's novel The Wake, longlisted for last year's Man Booker prize, which has now won the inaugural Book of the Year award at the UK Bookseller Industry Awards.

How to write a finalist for the Miles Franklin Literary Award

Sonya Hartnett. The finalists for the Miles Franklin Literary Award give insights into the creation of their very different novels about "Australian life in any of its phases".

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