Salt Story, by Sarah Drummond
I don’t eat much meat, but I’m rather partial to fish, so I was very interested in this book which humanises the small-scale commercial fishing industry that brings the bounty of the sea to those of us...
View Article2014 Kibble and Dobbie Longlists
Behold! Another lot of award longlists, and it’s nice to see that books I’ve admired are here too:) Kibble Literary Award Debra Adelaide – Letter to George Clooney (Picador Australia) Georgia Blain –...
View ArticleWA Premier’s Book Awards 2014
I’ve been really slack about keeping up with the awards lately, (I blame Masterchef for taking up so much of my time!) but I am so delighted by the WA Premier’s Book Awards shortlists I am hastily...
View ArticleAuthors from Western Australia (Australian Authors #3)
I’ve had a draft of Australian Authors #2 in the innards of this blog for a while, but I’m scampering on to #3 because the Australian Society of Authors is tweeting that literature funding in WA is in...
View ArticleAussie and Kiwi authors on the 2018 Dublin Literary Award Longlist
As usual, the nominations for the Dublin Literary Award are a generous mixture of the great and the good, and as usual I will try to locate all the authors from Australia and New Zealand among the...
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