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Dates for your diary - Sydney Writers' Centre blogFor our Sydney readers, there are some great free library events coming up that will be well worth the effort. First up, the Writers@Stanton series, presented by North Sydney Library and the Constant Reader Bookshop, will be continuing.
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Sleepers' 1st Novel Listed for VCE · SPUNC: Small Press Underground Networking CommunitySteven Amsterdam’s first novel, Things We Didn't See Coming, and the first novel for small press Sleepers Publishing, has just been booklisted for VCE English for 2011. This follows some considerable success for Amsterdam, who took out both the Age Fiction Book of the Year award and the overall ...
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Defacing books: effluence of engagement | Books | guardian.co.ukMark Twain loved it, Virginia Woolf despised it and Barbara Kingsolver feels so strongly about the subject that she won't do it to her own. Henry VIII deemed it a vital part of the experience (but, then, he could get away it), while Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell were once arrested for it.
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David Carlin’s Our Father Who Wasn’t There – LiteraryMindedDavid Carlin was six months old when his father, Brian, ‘went to sleep and never woke up’. His mother kept a photo of him on the bedside table, but otherwise, not much was spoken of his existence to David and his two older siblings, until they were much older.
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