From The Guardian’s series “Writers on Writing”, Joyce Carol Oates gives us some wise but sobering advice.
- Adair V
- In Search of…
- On Reading
- On Writing
- Reviews
- Fiction
- A Perfectly Good Family, Lionel Shriver
- An Illiad: A Story of War, Allessandro Baricco
- Ascent, Jed Mercurio
- Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Dai Sijie
- blueeyedboy by Joanne Harris
- Breath, Tim Winton
- Call It Tender, John Saul
- City of Thieves, David Benioff
- Clay, David Almond
- Exit Ghost, Philip Roth
- Fredy Neptune, Les Murray
- Harry, Revised, by Mark Sarvas
- In and Out of the Goldfish Bowl, Rachel Trezise
- Lasting Damage, Sophie Hannah
- Lovesong, Alex Miller
- Mr. Shivers, Robert Jackson Bennett
- My Mistress’s Sparrow is Dead, Jeffrey Eugenides
- Of Love and Evil, Anne Rice
- Remember June, Damien Leith
- Sons of the Rumour, David Foster
- South of the Border, West of the Sun, Haruki Murakami
- Sunshine State, James Miller
- The Biographer, Virginia Duigan
- The Book of Rachael, Leslie Cannold
- The Distant Hours, Kate Morton
- The Gate at the Stairs, Lorrie Moore
- The Gravedigger’s Daughter, Joyce Carol Oates
- The Housekeeper and the Professor
- The Ice Age, Kirsten Reed
- The Life of an Unknown Man, Andreï Makine
- The Lightkeeper’s Wife, Karen Viggers
- The Road Home, Rose Tremain
- The Secrets of the Chess Machine, Robert Löhr
- The Story of Danny Dunn, Bryce Courtenay
- The Turning, Tim Winton
- The Tygrine Cat, Inbali Iserles
- The Widow and Her Hero, Tom Keneally
- This Book is Not Good for You, Pseudonymous Bosch
- Non-Fiction
- 5 Ways to Carry a Goat, Ben Groundwater
- Affection, Krissy Kneen
- American Fascists, Chris Hedges
- Buda’s Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb, Mike Davis
- City of Quartz, Mike Davis
- Crossing Mandelbaum Gate, Kai Bird
- Don’t Look Behind You, But– Peter Allison
- Elvis is Titanic, Ian Klaus
- Four Fish, Paul Greenberg
- Here on Earth, Tim Flannery
- I am a Strange Loop, Douglas Hofstadter
- Lazarus Rising, John Howard
- Lion’s Head, Four Happiness, Xiaomei Martell
- Mennonite in a Little Black Dress, Rhoda Janzen
- Muhajababes, Allegra Stratton
- Our Father Who Wasn’t There, David Carlin
- Perfection, Julie Metz
- Requiem for a Species, Clive Hamilton
- Speaking our Language: The Story of Australian English, Bruce Moore
- The Plundered Planet, Paul Collier
- The Upside of Irrationality, Dan Ariely
- The Wayward Tourist, Mark Twain in Australia
- The Wisdom of Water, John Archer
- Tintin and the Secret of Literature, Tom McCarthy
- Together Alone, Jeff Apter
- Unpolished Gem, Alice Pung
- Why Manners Matter, Lucinda Holdforth
- Why Men are Necessary, Richard Glover
- Against Religion, Tamas Pataki
- Bringing Nothing to the Party: True Confessions of a New Media Whore, Paul Carr
- Fiction
