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Win a SIGNED Ricky Ponting Cricket Bat

Clayton Wehner — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 10:29:16 +0000

Well, there hasn’t been too much to write home about when it comes to Australia’s sub-par performance in the Ashes in England, but here’s some writing that cricket lovers need to get their hands on – Ricky Ponting’s new autobiography, to be launched on 1 November, just in time for the return Ashes Test … Continue reading Win a SIGNED Ricky Ponting Cricket Bat

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Player Profile: Shady Cosgrove, author of What the Ground Can’t Hold

Clayton Wehner — Sun, 14 Jul 2013 23:58:17 +0000

Shady Cosgrove, author of What the Ground Can’t Hold Tell us about your latest creation… What the Ground Can’t Hold is about a group of people stranded in the Andes because of an avalanche. They are from all over the world (Australia, the United States, Germany and Argentina) and each one is grappling with a secret that links … Continue reading Player Profile: Shady Cosgrove, author of What the Ground Can’t Hold

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Player Profile: Maggie Scott, co-author of Just Between Us

Clayton Wehner — Fri, 05 Jul 2013 00:24:36 +0000

Maggie Scott, co-author of Just Between Us Tell us about your latest creation… Quite literally, my latest creation is my son George, who was born a month ago. My latest literary creation is ‘Just Between Us’, an anthology of short stories and fiction that I co-edited and contributed a short story to. It’s about the difficulties of female friendships, … Continue reading Player Profile: Maggie Scott, co-author of Just Between Us

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Player Profile: Andrew Mueller, author of It’s Too Late To Die Young Now

Clayton Wehner — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 00:56:02 +0000

Andrew Mueller, author of It’s Too Late To Die Young Now Tell us about your latest creation… It’s called “It’s Too Late To Die Young Now”. It’s a memoir, both bemused and grateful, of my late teens and early twenties, which I got to spend being a rock journalist. It’s also an acknowledgement, roughly equal parts mournful and … Continue reading Player Profile: Andrew Mueller, author of It’s Too Late To Die Young Now

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Player Profile: Fiona Wood, author of Wildlife

Clayton Wehner — Wed, 03 Jul 2013 00:40:35 +0000

Fiona Wood, author of Wildlife Tell us about your latest creation… ‘Wildlife’ is set in a boarding term at a co-ed school’s outdoor education campus. It’s a story about friendship, first love, jealousy and betrayal. It follows the stories of Sibylla and Lou. Sibylla is in the early days of a new romance. She’s not sure about the whole … Continue reading Player Profile: Fiona Wood, author of Wildlife

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Player Profile: Robert Schofield, author of Heist

Clayton Wehner — Mon, 01 Jul 2013 00:11:18 +0000

Robert Schofield, author of Heist Tell us about your latest creation… HEIST is the story of Gareth Ford, an engineer working on a remote gold mine in Western Australia. Left for dead in the desert, framed as the inside man in a bullion robbery at the mine, and fearing that his daughter and ex-wife have been abducted from … Continue reading Player Profile: Robert Schofield, author of Heist

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Player Profile: Therese Creed, author of Redstone Station

Clayton Wehner — Sat, 29 Jun 2013 04:40:32 +0000

Therese Creed, author of Redstone Station Tell us about your latest creation… ‘Redstone Station’ is a rural romance set on a 110 thousand acre cattle property in Central Western Queensland. It is not a pure ‘romance’, the romance is only one aspect of the story that explores everyday life on a cattle station, including cattle work, horsemanship, dog handling … Continue reading Player Profile: Therese Creed, author of Redstone Station

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Player Profile: Christie Nieman, co-author of Just Between Us

Clayton Wehner — Fri, 28 Jun 2013 06:47:50 +0000

Christie Nieman, co-author of Just Between Us Tell us about your latest creation… Just Between Us: Australian writers tell the truth about female friendship. This book is an anthology put together by myself and four other women: Maggie Scott, Miriam Sved, Maya Linden and Natalie Kon-yu. We are all friends and writers and at some point it dawned on … Continue reading Player Profile: Christie Nieman, co-author of Just Between Us

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Player Profile: Felicity Volk, author of Lightning

Clayton Wehner — Fri, 28 Jun 2013 04:21:32 +0000

Felicity Volk, author of Lightning Tell us about your latest creation… On the surface, my debut novel, Lightning, is the tale of two people (Persia, a grieving mother, and Ahmed, a refugee fleeing his past in Pakistan) who have suffered extraordinary losses and who discover in each other the healing of shared tenderness. But more broadly, the book is … Continue reading Player Profile: Felicity Volk, author of Lightning

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Player Profile: Kim Lock, author of Peace, Love and Khaki Socks

Clayton Wehner — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 10:46:56 +0000

Kim Lock, author of Peace, Love and Khaki Socks Tell us about your latest creation… One sultry October morning in Darwin, hemp-wearing army wife Amy Silva grips a trembling fist around two pink lines on a plastic stick. Struggling to come to terms with her rampant fertility, disillusioned with a haughty obstetrician, and infuriated by an inordinate amount … Continue reading Player Profile: Kim Lock, author of Peace, Love and Khaki Socks

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