Friday 13 June, 2008
Bird Reviews
About 10 days ago Bird was launched. It was fabulous. About 120 people came. Jane Gleeson-White, a writer and friend from Sydney flew down just to launch me which was an exceptionally nice thing to do. Virginia took photos. You'll find them here.
There have been a few reviews. A very nice one in the Sydney Morning Herald, which there isn't a link to, and a perfectly respectable but ambivalent one ran last week in the Australian.
And a good one in the Age.
Here's an article published in the Age on the background to the novel.
And a review from the Courier Mail.
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Aug 30
Melbourne
If you'd like to read an extract from my latest book, Melbourne, you'll find the one the Age published a couple of weeks ago here. You'll find Jane Sullivan's review here, and Kate Holden's review here. There was a really...More»
Aug 30
Why we still need feminism
I gave a lecture at the Melbourne Writers Festival on Sunday night as a part of their Big Ideas series. It was on why we still need feminism. You can read an extract of it here, on Crikey. Or read...More»
Jan 24
Booki.sh has arrived
Today's an important day for Australian publishing. Readings bookshop has launched its new ebook store. Australian, independent publishers now have access to a multi-platform ebook that is NOT a part of a monolith like Amazon or Google. Everyone who's contributed...More»
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