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1 week ago | 
abc.net.au | Claire Nichols |Sarah L'Estrange |David Le May |Rhiannon Brown
From Sydney Writers Festival, two bestselling writers, David Nicholls and Liane Moriarty, reveal what it's like to see their stories go from the page to the screen. The British writer David Nicholls is best known for his novel One Day, which has been adapted to film and to television. While Australia's Liane Moriarty has seen every one of her books optioned for the screen and hit the big time with the starry TV adaptation of her novel Big Little Lies.
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2 weeks ago | 
abc.net.au | Claire Nichols |Sarah L'Estrange |David Le May |Rhiannon Brown
Kaliane Bradley shares the serious side to her obsession with muttonchops and time travel, with her book The Ministry of Time, and Rumaan Alam reflects on the success of his novels, Entitlement and Leave the World Behind which was adapted to the screen starring Julia Roberts and Ethan Hawke. British Cambodian author Kaliane Bradley shares the inspiration behind her hit 2024 debut The Ministry of Time.
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3 weeks ago | 
abc.net.au | Claire Nichols |Sarah L'Estrange |David Le May |Rhiannon Brown
Marian Keyes, the queen of commercial fiction, explains why she fetishes family, the getting of wisdom and writing books she wants to read. Irish writer Marian Keyes is known for her funny and relatable books which also explore difficult topics like addiction, depression, domestic violence and abortion. Marian's 16th novel, My Favourite Mistake (Penguin), is another story about one of her beloved Walsh sisters, a family she's been writing about for 30 years.
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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | Claire Nichols |Sarah L'Estrange |David Le May |Rhiannon Brown
Irish writer Eimear McBride revisits favourite characters on a rainy night, actor-turned-writer Tasma Walton dredges up a family story of abduction and James Bradley's crime novel about climate catastrophe. Irish writer Eimear McBride is a past winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction whose writing is celebrated for its originality and inventive use of language.
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Claire Nichols |Sarah L'Estrange |Carey Dell |Rhiannon Brown
Scottish author Andrew O'Hagan explains why finishing his latest novel Caledonian Road was like "landing 65 planes on the tarmac" and award-winning author Evie Wyld on her new book The Echoes, and why there are so many sharks in her fiction. Scottish author Andrew O'Hagan's latest book Caledonian Road (Faber and Faber) is a big in length and Dickensian scope.
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Dec 13, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Kate Evans |Claire Nichols |Sarah L'Estrange |Nicola Heath |Declan Fry |Rosie Ward
You know that uncomfortable feeling when you don't know what to read next? Well, get ready to take some notes because we're about to obliterate it. The Bookshelf's Kate Evans, The Book Show's Claire Nichols and Sarah L'Estrange, ABC Arts' Nicola Heath and critics Declan Fry and Rosie Ofori Ward offer up their best reads of 2024, leading us from grieving sisters to mismatched detectives, and from short stories based on real crimes to satire and dystopian futures.
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Claire Nichols |Sarah L'Estrange |Ariel D. Gross |Rhiannon Brown
British writer Will Self reveals the extent of his 'mother-worship' in his writing which has culminated in his latest novel, Elaine. The book was inspired by his mother's own diaries. Actor and comedian Steph Tisdell has added 'novelist' to her resume with her young adult novel, The Skin I'm In, and Kylie Mirmohamadi's novel Diving, Falling is about a grieving woman of a 'certain age' whose life is about to get messy. What would you do if you found your mother's diaries under her bed?
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Kate Evans |Sarah L'Estrange |Declan Fry |Katherine Smyrk
As summer holidays steadily approach, the pile of bedside books you'll need to see you through isn't going to grow itself. Take note of these new releases our group of critics — The Bookshelf's Kate Evans, The Book Show's Sarah L'Estrange, ABC Arts' Katherine Smyrk and writer Declan Fry — have tucked into this month.
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Nov 24, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Claire Nichols |Sarah L'Estrange |Ariel D. Gross |Rhiannon Brown
Comic book legend, Alan Moore has renounced comics for novels and his new book The Great When uncovers a secret, fictional London. Rosalie Ham returns with a prequel to her bestselling novel The Dressmaker, and why Tigest Girma wrote a black vampire novel. British author Alan Moore has created iconic comics including Watchmen, V for Vendetta, From Hell, and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
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Nov 17, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Claire Nichols |Sarah L'Estrange |Ariel D. Gross |Rhiannon Brown
Booker Prize winner Roddy Doyle returns to the character Paula Spencer who first appeared in his fiction in the 1990s, we visit author of The Wedding Forecast Nina Kenwood in her seaside childhood home and Michelle de Kretser pushes the boundaries of fiction in Theory and Practice. Roddy Doyle is an Irish novelist and Booker Prize winner (Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha). His latest novel is the last in a trio of books that he began almost 30 years ago.
