Sulari Gentill is funny, artistic, a loving wife and mother, a loyal Harry Potter fan, a truffle farmer, a lawyer “refugee”, a board member… oh, and a self-confessed murderer. Of characters, that is. In the six years she’s been writing, …
I had the very great pleasure of chatting recently with the talented Australian author Sulari Gentill. Click here for my review of Chasing Odysseus (Sulari’s pacy YA reinvention of Homer’s Odyssey). I’ll be posting a review of the first book …
Welcome to my first (written form of) “In the Hotseat” – where I pose 10 quick questions to authors, publishers and other bookish types for their immediate, off-the-cuff responses. I mean sure, it’s great to know what they’re reading, what …
Happy weekend everyone! I’ve got a treat for you today. I interviewed the delightful Kate Forsyth this week about her novel Bitter Greens and she’s come back with some brilliant, thoughtful answers you’ll love. There aren’t really any spoilers – so feel free to …
Last week I confessed I have never read any of Jeffrey Eugenides’ books, but that I was planning to fix this soon. Having seen him speak on Thursday (May 17) at the 2012 Sydney Writers’ Festival I now absolutely cannot wait to …
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jeffrey Eugenides has criticised the Pulitzer Prize board’s decision not to award a fiction prize this year, during an interview at the 2012 Sydney Writers’ Festival, warning the move could detriment the industry. “There’s not too many people that think …
