Books & Poetry
Rupert Murdoch’s early years in Adelaide were marked by an unlikely progressive streak stoked by his friendship with crusading editor Rohan Rivett. Neither would last.
Books & Poetry
In his latest story collection, Adelaide author Stephen Orr charts a child’s progress ‘from the Outer Hebrides to a Mongolian desert, from war to kidnapping, a Midwestern American nightmare, (and) falling from the wheel-well of a Dreamliner’.
The horror stories in this new Australian YA collection range from ‘straight-up terrifying rollercoaster rides’ to those rooted in society’s deepest fears. The story extracted here takes readers on a mercy-dash road trip that goes chillingly awry.
Adelaide writer Poppy Nwosu’s new young-adult rom-com novel follows a teenager who embarks on a road trip in the South Australian coastal desert region that she hopes will solve all her problems. Except, of course, it doesn’t.
In his imaginative and wryly witty new novel, Sincerely, Ethel Malley, Adelaide author Stephen Orr reimagines Australia’s greatest literary hoax, the Ern Malley Affair.
Adelaide-born writer Emma Ashmere explores illusion, deception and acts of quiet rebellion in her new book of short stories, including one in which two sisters await a predicted tidal wave after SA Premier Don Dunstan decriminalises homosexuality.
