Well, that didn’t take long. Fifty Shades of Gray by EL James has been banned and pulled from library shelves in three US states. Apparently, it’s too ‘controversial’. Read the HuffPost article about that here. I work in a public library and when I was on desk duty the other day, a patron who had [...]
“The great thing about this book is that it’s not like one of those boring old paper books where you have to start at the start and keep reading and reading and reading and reading …”, writes Griffiths in the intro to Andypedia. If there is anyone left on the planet who has not heard of [...]
If the name ‘Macleay’ sounds familiar, you have probably visited the family’s former residence, Elizabeth Bay House, or are thinking of Macleay Street, the Macleay Ranges or the Macleay Museum at the University of Sydney. Dr Derelie Cherry, fell in love with Elizabeth Bay House when she visited there in the late 1980s and started [...]
This is the compelling story of Captain Thunderbolt (Frederick Wordsworth Ward), a ticket-of-leave convict turned bushranger and his part-Aboriginal lover and loyal companion in crime Mary Ann Bugg. Ward was a ‘gentleman robber’ and ‘the longest- roaming bushranger in Australian history’. Although he caused the troopers plenty of grief, Ward gained support from the public [...]
My interview with Kim Scott was published in Issue 7 Nov-Dec 2011 of Inside History magazine. The article (available as a pdf below) is about these gorgeous picture books published by UWA Publishing as a result of the Wirlomin Noongar Language and Stories Project. Hope you enjoy reading the article and that you’ll be inspired [...]
Slabscape: Reset is described by the author as “a web-back — a work of fiction published in print/eBook format with addenda, back-stories and tangentially linked information available online through Slabscapedia”. The first book in the trilogy is a humourous, fast-paced romp through a sci-fi world which could be the result of Ben Elton getting hold [...]
Ships in the Field, by Susanne Gervay, illustrated by Anna Pignataro, was launched by Lisa Forrest on Friday 17 February at the Hughenden Hotel in Woollahra. Never having written a picture book before, Gervay was asked by her publisher to to write a novel about ‘finding home’. She decided not to because she wanted to [...]
On the evening of 14 February 2012, there was an official launch of the National Year of Reading 2012 at the State Library of New South Wales. There were four speakers: the State Librarian, Dr Alex Byrne, radio broadcaster/author Richard Glover, NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell, and last but by no means least, children’s author and [...]
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