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Mark Rubbo's Top Five Upcoming Releases 27 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
Mark Rubbo takes a look at five important new Australian titles due for release over the coming months. This coming season is a major one for Australian titles with five of our most acclaimed writers...
Book of the Week: MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood 26 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
Bringing together Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood, MaddAddam is the thrilling conclusion to Margaret Atwood's speculative fiction trilogy in which a man-made plague has swept the earth. A sm...
An Artist That Changed My Life: Bruce Springsteen 23 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
Lou Fulco tells us why he loves Bruce Springsteen's music A year before Born To Run came out, music critic Jon Landau saw a performance where many of the as yet unreleased songs were performed and wr...
What We're Reading 23 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we're reading, the films we're watching, the television shows we're hooked on or the music we're loving. Bronte is watching A Young Doctor's Notebook & Ot...
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton 22 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
<em>Reviewed by Luke May</em> Last year we survived another tick of the zodiac, closing the Age of Pisces, and with it the reign of twinship, mirrors and hidden things. But for those caught in a nine...
MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood 22 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
<em>Reviewed by </em> Ten years after the release of Oryx and Crake, the final instalment of Margaret Atwood’s dystopian trilogy is here, a slow-burning and wholly immersive, chilling delight. Once a...
Pop Up Poetry at St Kilda Village StripFest - Saturday 24 August 2013 at 3:30pm 22 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
Saturday 24 August 2013 at 3:30pm Readings St Kilda: 112 Acland St, St Kilda, Victoria, 3182 Over the course of one Saturday afternoon, six Melbourne poets will be popping up in various locations ar...
The Double (And Other Stories) by Maria Takolander 22 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
<em>Reviewed by Kate Goldsworthy</em> This debut short-story collection from Maria Takolander, a Melbourne-born and Geelong-based author and academic, is eerily beautiful and not for the faint of hea...
The Night Guest by Fiona McFarlane 22 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
<em>Reviewed by </em> The title of Fiona McFarlane’s debut novel is an intriguing one and, when paired with the cover illustration of a tiger’s paw pushing through a slightly ajar door, suggests at b...
Vale Elmore Leonard 21 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
Prolific crime writer Elmore Leonard has passed away at the age of 87 American crime writer Elmore Leonard has died at home near Detroit at the age of 87, after suffering a stroke earlier this month....
