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Liane Moriarty w @katemildenhall was honest & generous packing in transit delays, writerly instinct, getting stuck every day, permission to write about everyday people plus death, dying &belief. I know! It’s a lot but none of it was half as heavy as it sounds. Pan Macmillan

Totally bereft!! Finished this and I just miss them all so!

Yay, not even a week now until I’m in conversation with the #DebutCrew2024 grandmaster herself @LisaKenway about her debut novel All You Took From Me! Join us at Club Lambton Tues 12 Nov for Books at the Bowlo. Free entry but book a table by calling Club Lambton on 02 4957 3272.

Congratulations to Samantha Harvey, whose novel ‘Orbital’ won the 2024 Booker Prize. In honour of this achievement we have removed the paywall on her short story ‘Flowers Appear on the Earth’, which appeared in Granta 122: Betrayal. granta.com/flowers-appear…

It was a great #BooksAtTheBowlo on Tuesday with Lisa Kenway & her debut All You Took From Me. We talked memory & consciousness, amnesia, emotional isolation, atmospheric settings and of course the writing (and re-writing) process.

On the train trying to nut out what the r'ship is between the guy behind me & his caller. He said he was wearing contact lenses & a blue polo shirt. Then said he was about to go through a tunnel when we were no where near one & yet somehow they hung up on him 1st?

More tales from the Syd-Newy train - our guard message is so kind and he tells us where he's located and to come and see him if we need anything and I feel like we might all just line up to get some advice or life reassurance from him.

What have I been reading this year? Here’s a haphazard and incomplete list, leaving out those I didn’t enjoy, or didn’t finish. Life’s too short! Love to hear in the comments what YOU'VE been reading. michellescotttucker.com/what-ive-been-…

The November Bookstack is leading with local ladies @LisaKenway, Nova Weetman & Kristina Ross are joined by the explosion that is @Egangoonsquads ‘The Candy House’, Kaliane Bradley’s ‘the Ministry of Time’ & Miranda July’s All Fours. ninacullen.com/2024/11/28/the…

It feels disloyal saying so but I think the Royel Otis cover of Mazzy Star's 'Fade into you' is better than the original. youtu.be/kWJPLyL64rY?si…

"Everyone is dying, everything is dying, and the earth is dying also. I don’t know where I get the courage to keep on living in the midst of these ruins. Let us love each other to the end." --George Sand, (in a letter to Gustave Flaubert)

My Summer Bookstack is an all lady lineup including Mhairi McFarlane Miranda Cowley Heller Karen Viggers Author Lauren Groff Anna Quindlen. It’s love, art, soccer, computer games, mice plagues & childhood summers👇 ninacullen.com/2025/02/05/the… #writingcommunity #readingcommunity #amreading

The Feb bookstack has dark shorts by Eliza Clark (mostly offline), a mental health diary, truth which is stranger than fiction by Lech Blaine and 2 achingly beautiful wartime coming of age stories – one set is Tassie by Robbie Arnott ninacullen.com/2025/02/26/the… #readingcommunity #amreading

to all the nice people who asked me what help I needed after that ridiculous QLD politician stole a $15,000 literary award from me, I need an income. Freelance work/writing gigs. I need people to mention me around tables discussing opportunities for writers. Work such as >