The Coast

In the first of a six-part series of memoirs by Australian writers, Man Booker Prize winner Tom Keneally recalls one memorable summer spent on the NSW North Coast, dodging death and courting romance.

Revoke The Rules And Help Book Pirates

It is one of the mysteries of the book publishing world that the market in India is so small. Even in gross terms, let alone per capita, fewer Indians buy fiction and nonfiction than Australians, despite India's high literacy rate, strong education system, growing middle class and a 50-fold population. parallel importation,

Searching For The Holly Grail

As Christmas and the summer reading season loom we asked a group of writers from home and abroad to tell us which books had tickled their fancies over the past year.

Letters & Emails

Words have the power to make or break

Journey Into The Past On A Train Of Thought

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Bringing Back The Ballroom Blitz

The queen of underground rock is calling on friends to help stage a benefit concert. By Jo Roberts.

Cornered

Sorry, did I miss something? A war, perhaps? This impartial observer is concerned that far too much chicken-counting is going on at the moment. Not one serviceman immolated by friendly fire, not one Iraqi diaper factory neutralised by Tomahawks, yet we'realready in there pitching our visions of apost-Saddam paradise. Oil-sodden tiger economy? Sun-blessed constitutional monarchy? Or maybe a genteel social democracy on the Swedish model? (``I'm told the soused herring is reliable here, Achmed.")

What The Dickens?

Victorian London is the setting for New York-based Australian writer Peter Carey's latest novel. What in the world is he up to? Peter Carey reckons he knows when a writer has been at work. "You go into this weird place that's not this world, it's some other place," he says. "You c

(companions Of The Order Of Australia - Officers Of The Order Of Australia - Members Of The Order Of Australia - Medal Of The Order Of Australia)

AC. Companions of the Order of Australia. Franco BELGIORNO-NETTIS, CBE, AM, Clontarf NSW, for service to the arts, to Australian business through the engineering and construction industry, and to the community. Dr Peter Charles DOHERTY, Memphis Tennessee, USA, for service to scientific rese

Who Cares About The Miles Franklin?

On Tuesday, the winner of one of Australia's most prestigious literary awards will be announced. Jane Freeman looks at the contenders and what winning means to authors, publishers and the reading public. THE most striking thing about the short- list for the 1992 Miles Franklin literary award, to