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Courtesy of Fourth Estate The Thing Around Your Neck is a stunning collection of 12 short stories by Nigerian-born award-winning author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Adichie’s previous works include the superb novels Purple Hibiscus (2003) for which she won the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize Best First Book in 2005 and Half of a Yellow Sun (2006), winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2007. The Thing ...
This classic Australian book is a collection of short stories by one of this country’s favourite writers, Robert Drewe. First published in 1983, Drewe’s portrayal of our obsession with the coast is still as relevant today as it was back then. You can literally feel the sand between your toes and the sun ...
Always a great introduction to new authors, this short story collection is part of Get Reading!, Australia’s largest annual celebration of reading and books. There are some fabulous Australian authors included in the book; some established, some newbies. The book programme is an Australian Government initiative aimed at promoting books and reading amongst all Australians. It ...
The Rip by Robert Drewe is a beautiful collection of short stories set on the coast of Australia that looks at lives and relationships and how they can change in an instant through unexpected and sometimes dramatic events. There are thirteen stories in The Rip and at the centre is the ocean, soothing and comforting, ...
Courtesy of Penguin The Boat by Nam Le, page 279 But the mention of land – coming even from her own mouth – cancelled out any joke for Mai. She had been trying not to think about it. From every quarter everyone now discussed, obsessively, their situation: they were on a broken-down junk, stranded in the Eastern ...
I am an Australian freelance editor, proofreader and blogger with extensive experience working with books, magazines, newspapers, websites, social media and academic journals.
