When she was at Radcliffe, Gertrude Stein always wore black and refused to wear a corset. Samuel Beckett liked Wallabee boots and Aran sweaters and settled on his hairstyle when he was 17. Edith Sitwell bought furnishing fabrics and had them made into dresses. William Burroughs "branded himself" in a suit and tie. Zadie Smith is rarely photographed without her head wrap.
A new theory suggests that George Orwell made a crucial change to the text of Nineteen Eighty-Four not long before he died.
Steven Lang's third novel, Hinterland, focuses on the interactions of a group of people in s amll Queensland country town that is the focus of an environmental campaign.
Literary events in Canberra.
Book which details offences allegedly committed by Cardinal Pell will be removed from sale in Victoria.
Bond's character is beloved by generations, selling millions of books and spawning TV and film versions.
In 2012, I had one of those experiences about which every book collector dreams. I'd spent a beautiful late summer's day in Oxfordshire researching George Orwell's childhood and had arranged to meet a friend in my favourite English pub, The Three Tuns.
Is there a place for apostrophes or hyphens in crossword clues? Opinions differ.
It began with a Facebook share that awakened the trolls and ended with more than 2000 people showing their support to an iconic Brisbane bookstore.
Judith Mackrell weaves together stories of three unique women and the palazzo they each at one time owned on Venice's Grand Canal.
Though Wayne Macauley's allegorical prowess remains undimmed, his latest is straightforward and direct.
According to Jodie Archer and Matthew Jockers, there is an answer to the apparent randomness of major commercial success in popular fiction that emerges when the data is mined by computers.
Cities can provide the perfect atmospheric backdrop to a crime novel, says Booker Prize winner John Banville. Just think of Raymond Chandler's mean streets of Los Angeles.
Writers looking for a quiet, inspirational space are seeking out the worn past.
In the doll-house setting of See What I Have Done, the tension rises with the thermometer. The reader knows blood will flow, but who will crack first?
In telling her father's story, Rebecca Stott also tells her own – what it was like to be a child in such a fundamentalist sect and how it left its mark on her.
White Fur is as much about class difference and privilege as it is about obsessive love. Elise is a streetwise girl from the wrong side of the tracks, and Jamey is a young heir to an East Coast fortune.
A reader needs some compelling reason to remain in the company of an unlikeable narrator. In Andrea's case in All Grown Up, the reason is her family.
The key to parenting, says Helen Hayward, is to accept that family life is infused with "two distinct feelings – love and panic".
Even at their most amplified Joy Williams' stories are more flash fiction or micro-fiction. But all are thought-provoking and most of them very funny.
Stephen Orr's work continues to have a prominent place in the literary mapping and recording of South Australia and Adelaide.
As well as revisiting memorable moments of the tour, Dominic Dromgoole's account explores Hamlet itself in light of particular issues thrown up by the country in question.
All the essayists in this collection acknowledge the crucial importance of the support of their mothers, grandmothers, aunts, sisters and elders in sustaining them.
Do you know your Pogrebin from your Porlock?
Boxes of books are popping up on front lawns, in parks and on streets all over Australia. They're getting communities reading, fostering friendships and even sparking romances.
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