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Love, Dad - Coming Soon from Fremantle Press!
For me, the three reasons why I typically take years to write a novel and yet somehow wrote a complete memoir in a fortnight in 2021, are clear.
5 Things You Didn't Know About J.D. Salinger
1. He donated his unpublished story ‘The Ocean Full of Bowling Balls’, written in 1947, to the Princeton library in 2010. The story is about the death of Kenneth Caulfield and contains the ‘greatest letter home from camp ever composed by man or boy’. This letter is sent from The Catcher in the Rye protagonist Holden Caulfield to his younger brother, Kenneth, who becomes ‘Allie’ in said novel...
Friday Fave: Hidden by Mirranda Burton
…In which I invite someone bookish to tell us about one of their all-time favourite works of fiction, and why it’s so special to them. This Friday Fave comes from author Laurie Steed:
I had flown in from Perth to attend The 2011 Melbourne Writers Festival. I wasn’t on the programme that particular year, and, truth be told, was not sure why I’d come. I spoke the previous year on being a professional writer; now here I was being a professional slacker instead...