CULTURE: Writing fiction
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History as Fiction. Marr, Grenville, Rash, Cercas, Erpenpeck
History and fiction have long made strange bedfellows. At this Adelaide Writers' Week event, four acclaimed writers discuss the very...
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CULTURE
At the Condamine Crossroads Motel
Janette Turner ...
Meg parks right between the goal posts of the Welcome to Condamine sign. Small print below Condamine, white against green, announces:...
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CULTURE
This Helplessness
Steven Amsterdam
I’m afraid we don’t have a lot of choices for treatment here.” “You mean I don’t have a lot of choices?” “Yes.” “Then I’m the one who’s...
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CULTURE
Three Boys
Sonya Hartnett
He straightens from the grass and sees them immediately, already close, already seeing him, and he’s stunned he didn’t hear the danger...
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CULTURE
The Orange-bellied Parrot
Nicholas Shakespeare
Alison had never liked her grandmother, who lived alone in a big overheated apartment in Zurich, and so when Helen went into hospital after...
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WORLD
Letter to a Bulgarian Friend
Alex Miller
Dear Boris, You tell me you are living in Chirpan again, the town where you were born. That you have returned there after 35 years away. I...
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CULTURE
Inheritance: Nicholas Shakespeare in conversation (p2)
Part 1 | Part 2 Award-winning fiction and non-fiction author Nicholas Shakespeare has been described by The Times as one of the UK’s 'best...
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CULTURE
Inheritance: Nicholas Shakespeare in conversation
Nicholas Shakespeare
Part 1 | Part 2 Award-winning fiction and non-fiction author Nicholas Shakespeare has been described by The Times as one of the UK’s 'best...
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