Corruption. Redemption. Page-turning.
A murder. A disappearance. A sinister network.
Evocative. Searing. Community.
A tender and fierce novel that asks what we do when faced with things we don’t understand. Is our impulse to destroy or connect?
Fame. Fortune. Family.
Named a Most Anticipated Book of the Year by TIME, The National, Nylon, Electric Literature, and Library Journal.
Connection. Empathy. Home.
The new novel from the Miles Franklin Award-winning author of Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens.
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Melissa Goode on the alchemy of writing to music
Music is essential to my writing process, sending me to another world, away from this one, and casting me into the moment with the characters. If I listen to, for example, ‘The Great White Open’ by Christian Löffler and Federico Albanese, or Dirty Three’s ‘Sue’s Last Ride’, I can start the process, like swimming towards the bottom of a pool and reaching a different place. -
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Writing a crime novel is always great fun but creating a funny crime novel is a real challenge. Killing is the easy part, making a reader laugh about it is much harder. -
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Abby Corson: How I got into the mindset of a seventy-three-year-old man.
Hector Harrow is an almost-retired hotel concierge from Yorkshire who likes to drink tea and do newspaper puzzles in his cosy cottage. For me, he was the perfect protagonist for my murder mystery. -
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I never meant to be a teacher. I, in fact, categorically 100% in no absolute way wanted to teach. My complete prejudice was the result of an adult ...
