Lit-picking25 March, 2009From Nagasaki to Delhi, Pakistan to New York, Kamila Shamsie’s Burnt Shadows (Bloomsbury, May) is a sweeping, powerful look at love, loss, history and conflict in the tradition of The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, or The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai.
Books Alive to run in September, supported by TV commercials23 March, 2009The government-funded Books Alive campaign will run in September rather than August this year and will feature a series of television commercials promoting the initiative.
Video - Launch of Don Watson's new book, American Journeys, at Adelaide Writers' Week24 March, 2008Tom Keneally launches Don Watson's new work,
American Journeys, at Adelaide Writers' Week. Keneally is followed by Don Watson.