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Things That Are Making Me Happy This Week

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01. Melbourne Food and Wine Festival is underway. We enjoyed an Austro-Hungarian lunch (that extended into dinner) at Cardwell Cellars. Highlights: the flammekuechen, the wines by Werkstatt (especially the riesling sekt), and the gingerbread kugelhupf, which were out of this world. Continue reading →

Stella Prize 2020 Longlist Predictions

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The Stella Prize 2020 longlist will be announced tomorrow night.

Unlike the judges, I’ve only read a dozen or so eligible books but I’m aware of a bunch that keep crossing my radar. On that rather flimsy basis, I’m predicting the longlist*. Continue reading →

My Best Books for 2019

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An even spread of excellent books and some truly memorable author events has made 2019 a terrific reading year.

As I’ve done in previous years, I’ll focus on the books that have continued to resonate with me (as opposed to those I gave five stars to as soon as I’d finished reading). Continue reading →

Melbourne Writers Festival 2019 – the last bit

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I’m hopelessly late reporting on my last two 2019 Melbourne Writers Festival events, but both were fantastic and worth a mention.

Corey White – The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory

I think my favourite session this Festival was comedian Corey White talking with Sarah Krasnostein about his memoir, The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory. Continue reading →

Melbourne Writers Festival 2019 – the first bit

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Can you see Tayari Jones in the pic above? She looks tiny but I had to show off the magnificent Capitol Theatre, one of the venues for this year’s Melbourne Writers Festival.

I managed four sessions on my first Festival day. The highlights: Continue reading →

Melbourne Writers Festival 2019

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The MWF 2019 program was announced at 7pm. I’ve been busy since then making long lists of authors, events, dates and times.

The theme this year is ‘When We Talk About Love’. I LOVE the graphics and that sparkly heart (and a friend quite rightly pointed out that they need to have this vase everywhere, at all the venues). Continue reading →