The Australian author is ‘incredibly influential’, but has had to survive decades of ‘cultural cringe’ and genre snobbery to make finally ‘a decent sort of living’Before parched and dusty towns across Australia became full of fictional sinister people; before the explosion of outback noir and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-04-05 23:00:18 UTC ]
She might not have written an entire book in one day, but Australian author Karina May has a pretty good, pretty sweat-smile story behind the rom-commy Duck à l’Orange for Breakfast, which comes out March 28 from Pan Macmillan Australia. First, you need to understand the plot: The novel centers... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-03-22 08:59:40 UTC ]
Australian author Aaron Blabey's popular graphic novel series The Bad Guys is hitting the big screen. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-04-14 04:00:00 UTC ]
Flatiron signs a book about a civil rights leader by Beto O’Rourke, Australian author Helen Garner sells seven to Pantheon, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-03-04 05:00:00 UTC ]
The author of 70 novels translated into 29 languages, Valerie Parv has passed away just before her 70th birthday. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Conversation | 2021-04-30 05:02:04 UTC ]
Australian author Charlotte McConaghy brings 'Migrations' to the L.A. Times Book Club Feb. 24. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2021-02-17 16:00:28 UTC ]
Canongate will publish the "explosive" new novel by Booker-shortlisted Australian author Kate Grenville. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-11-22 08:51:53 UTC ]
Faber has snapped up rights to Australian author and playwright Gabriel Bergmoser's Sunburnt Country. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-07-09 10:12:57 UTC ]
HarperCollins Publishers has acquired world all languages rights for two novels by Australian author, Sandy Barker. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-04-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Yassmin Abdel-Magied, an Australian author and Muslim activist who was slated to speak at the PEN World Voices festival in New York this month, has been deported from the U.S. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Richard Neville, the Australian author and co-founder of controversial 60s counterculture magazine Oz, has died in Byron Bay aged 74. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2016-09-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Simon & Schuster has bought a "unique" debut from an Australian author. S&S ssistant fiction editor Carla Josephson bought UK, Commonwealth & ANZ rights in All These Perfect Strangers by Australian prize-winning author Aoife Clifford from Rebecca Ritchie and Clare Forster at Curtis... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-06-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Colleen McCullough, the Australian author of The Thorn Birds, has died at the age of 77. The author died in hospital on Norfolk Island on Thursday afternoon, her publisher HarperCollins Australia confirmed. Shona Martyn of HarperCollins Australia paid tribute to McCullough, calling her "one of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Tinder Press has acquired a “smart, brilliantly written” novel by Australian author... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-07-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Liane Moriarty is the Australian author of five internationally bestselling novels, including The Husband’s Secret. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]