"In Lionel Shriver’s novel Big Brother, a woman puts her marriage on the line to help a drastically obese sibling lose weight.” An unexpected topic for Shriver's new novel 'Big...
Tag: fiction
In the week before her 82nd birthday, short story writer Alice Munro has revealed “I’m probably not going to write any more” to a newspaper interviewer. For those of us who’ve studied...
It's a glamourous time of year for us readers and writers with the Australian Book Industry Award winners having just been announced. A couple of highlights: Taking out the categories: Book of...
Are book club members as qualified as trained editors when it comes to assessing an unpublished, unedited manuscript?