Pip Smith: Half Wild
Based on the true lives of Eugenia Falleni, Half Wild is Pip Smith’s stunningly original debut novel. Sydney, 1938. After being hit by a car on Oxford Street, sixty-three-year-old Jean Ford lies in a coma in Sydney...
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Tall ships, tall tales, and the mysteries of Eugenia Falleni
I’m an unlikely sailor of tall ships. Too clumsy, too prone to motion sickness, too white and nervous about symbols of colonisation. Nevertheless, in 2013 I found myself up the mast in the middle of the Tasman sea, surro...
Discovering Dobell
Discovering Dobell offers an intimate glimpse of William Dobell, the artist whose heart remained anchored in the daily life of everyday people, from the streets of Depression-raked London to Sydney’s Kings Cross. Christo...
Anna Spargo-Ryan: The Gulf
The Gulf is an acute, moving and uplifting story from the inimitable, alchemical imagination of Anna Spargo-Ryan. Skye’s sixteen, and her mum’s got yet another new boyfriend. Trouble is, Jason’s bad new...
Luke Buckmaster: Miller and Max
Miller and Max is the story of two heroes. One, a leather jacket-clad road warrior whose adventures in a dystopian future have made an indelible imprint on global popular culture. The second, the artist who created him: ...
Revealing Reading: A Survey of Australian Reading Habits
The Australia Council for the Arts has released a summary of new research into Australian book reading habits which reveals Australians rank reading as their favourite leisure activity and they still prefer a printed boo...
Discovering Charles Meere: an intriguing, subversive artist
Charles Meere’s painting Australian Beach Pattern is an iconic representation of Australian sybaritic beach culture. It has been widely reproduced, appropriated and copied, and is a big seller on the postcard stands at t...
Emma Viskic: Resurrection Bay
Caleb Zelic has been profoundly deaf since early childhood and has always lived on the outside, observing tell-tale signs people hide in a smile, a cough, a kiss. When a childhood friend is murdered, a sense of guilt and...
