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May 10, 2024 | 
readings.com.au | Melissa Kang |Yumi Stynes |Melissa Lucashenko
The winners of the annual Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) were announced last night! Our congratulations to the winning authors, illustrators and publishers.
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Nov 28, 2023 | 
readings.com.au | Melissa Lucashenko
Every year our staff vote for their favourite books of the past 12 months. Here are the best Australian fiction books of the year, as voted for by Readings' staff, and displayed in alphabetical order by author. Women & Children by Tony BirchIn Women & Children, beloved local writer Tony Birch takes us to 1965 and, in his inimitable style, introduces us to Joe Cluny and his sister Ruby, who are growing up in a working-class suburb with their mum, Marion.
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Nov 8, 2023 | 
readings.com.au | Melissa Lucashenko |David Mitchell
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Oct 26, 2023 | 
readings.com.au | Melissa Lucashenko
Edenglassieby Melissa LucashenkoWhen Mulanyin meets the beautiful Nita in Edenglassie, their saltwater people still outnumber the British. As colonial unrest peaks, Mulanyin dreams of taking his bride home to Yugambeh Country, but his plans for independence collide with white justice. Two centuries later, fiery activist Winona meets Dr Johnny. Together they care for obstinate centenarian Grannie Eddie, and sparks fly, but not always in the right direction.
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Oct 19, 2023 | 
killyourdarlings.com.au | Melissa Lucashenko
In her long life, Granny Eddie reflected from her hospital bed that afternoon, she had seen a great deal of time. A lot of time, and more than one variety of it, but this sort of time—or life (which amounted to the same thing)—was altogether new. The blurred colours of the hospital ward were far too bright, everything shining and glowing with colours a person had never imagined before. All colour and no detail, and a pain in her temple that had taken a fair whack of morphine to knock over.
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Oct 13, 2023 | 
readings.com.au | Melissa Lucashenko |Leslye Penelope
Each week our amazing staff bring you a sample of the books or music they're immersed in. Rosalind McClintock is reading Edenglassieby Melissa LucashenkoI was lucky enough to see Melissa Lucashenko in conversation with David Marr at the BookPeople conference. Lucashenko came across as fiercely intelligent, generous and funny, that along with the passages she read aloud from her new book Edenglassie prompted me to hunt down a copy. It did not disappoint, it is all these things and more.
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Oct 6, 2023 | 
brisbanetimes.com.au | Melissa Lucashenko
The October 7 EditionWe’re sorry, this feature is currently unavailable. We’re working to restore it. Please try again later. Here comes the son: Is Lachlan Murdoch up to the job? | Melissa Lucashenko on playing with simple black/white binaries | The photojournalist who captured daily life in Afghanistan | Matthew Reilly on how to write good sex scenes | The issue with supermarket self-checkouts | Is it okay to tell a friend to take you off speakerphone?
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Oct 6, 2023 | 
brisbanetimes.com.au | Jacqueline Maley |Melissa Lucashenko
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Melissa Lucashenko, the only person ever to have won both the Miles Franklin Literary Award and TV’s Millionaire Hot Seat, is struggling to concentrate. We’re sitting on the back terrace of the Avid Reader bookstore in Brisbane’s West End, drinking coffee in the late-winter warmth, which even in August is hinting at humidity. We’re shaded by a fig tree, which bursts with bird life.
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Oct 4, 2023 | 
themonthly.com.au | Michael Williams |Melissa Lucashenko
MELISSA: It had to be a funny book, you know, I couldn't write about colonial atrocity and colonial hardship without it being a funny book. Melissa Lucashenko writes about big ideas and brutal experiences, but she does so with grace, with generosity and – maybe above all else – a rich sense of humour. It’s one of the things that made her novel Too Much Lip such a well-received winner of the Miles Franklin Award back in 2019.
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Jul 27, 2023 | 
themonthly.com.au | Kate Grenville |Judith Brett |Melissa Lucashenko |Claire Connelly
I was a shy teenager and Mum had to propel me out the door to the few social opportunities my 1960s milieu offered. When she said “But you never know who you might meet”, of course, being a teenager, I rolled my eyes.
It might be a banal line, but it’s served me well. For a start, it’s how I met the man I married, the father of my children, the good companion of happy years. Instead of saying no when a man I definitely didn’t want invited me to a book launch, I said yes.
