Avalanche: A Love Story (Julia Leigh, Hamish Hamilton)
Author and director Julia Leigh began IVF treatment at 38, knowing that the odds were stacked against her yet still hoping that she would be ‘one of the lucky ones’....
Haigh wins Waverley Library Award 2013
Gideon Haigh has won the 2013 Waverley Library Award for Literature, known as the ‘Nib’, for his book On Warne (Hamish Hamilton). Haigh was presented with the award, worth $20,000,...
Tulba shortlisted for Dylan Thomas Prize
Australian author Majok Tulba has been shortlisted for this year’s Dylan Thomas Prize in the UK. Tulba’s novel Beneath the Darkening Sky (Hamish Hamilton) is shortlisted along with two other...
Complex Chinese characters: Dominique Wilson on ‘The Yellow Papers’
Dominique Wilson’s The Yellow Papers (Transit Lounge, March) is a ‘captivating historical epic, and a unique view of the formation of modern China’, writes Jennifer Peterson-Ward. She spoke to the...