Susan Wyndham

Dec 12, 2024 | theguardian.com | Steph Harmon |Sian Cain |Susan Wyndham |James Bradley |Alyx Gorman |Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen | +9 more

Juice by Tim WintonFiction, Penguin, $49.99 (hardback)Juice opens as our unnamed narrator, surviving in a climate-ravaged Australia 200 years into the future, is captured by a hostile party and forced to tell his story to save his life – a sort of Scheherazade at the end of the world.

Jun 12, 2024 | unsw.press | Brigitta Olubas |Susan Wyndham

Shirley Hazzard and Elizabeth Harrower met in person for the first time in London in 1972, six years after they began a correspondence that would span four decades. They exchanged letters, cards and telegrams, and made occasional phone calls between Harrower’s home in Sydney and Hazzard’s apartments in New York, Naples and Capri. The two women wrote to each other of their daily lives, of impediments to writing, their reading, politics and world affairs, and in Hazzard’s case, her travels.

May 28, 2024 | unsw.press | Brigitta Olubas |Susan Wyndham

NewSouth has acquired a new authoritative biography of Australian novelist Elizabeth Harrower by writer, journalist and 2024 National Library of Australia Fellow Susan Wyndham. Due to publish in mid-2025, the new biography of Harrower provides insight into the powerful and ever-relevant work of this literary luminary. It explores her vast and influential friendship circle and how her life and relationships both shaped her work and led to her withdrawal from it.

Jan 4, 2024 | theguardian.com | Beejay Silcox |Susan Wyndham |Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen |Maddie Thomas |Tim Byrne |Sian Cain | +5 more

Guards! Guards! by Terry PratchettPenguin, $22.99Pure satirical wizardryThere are 41 novels in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series and you could pick any one of them to put on this list. But you’ll never forget your first wander into Pratchett’s antic imagination. It’s like walking through the wardrobe into Narnia, but with better jokes and crappier sanitation. Guards! Guards! was my gateway book and it’s a superb place to start, a high-fantasy parody of community policing and gun control.

Dec 17, 2023 | msn.com | Sian Cain |Susan Wyndham |Declan Fry |Imogen Dewey |Fiona Wright |Steph Harmon | +9 more