I interview writers every week here on the Booktopia Blog. My Ten Terrifying Questions have been answered by over 250 published authors ranging from mega selling global stars like Jackie Collins and Lee Child to brilliant, relatively unknown debut authors such as Favel Parret and Rebecca James. In each of these interviews I ask the [...]
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Kylie Ladd author of Last Summer and After the Fall reveals… The 5 best novels I read this year are… Caribou Island by David Vann An Alaskan Revolutionary Road, Caribou Island from David Vann, bestselling and critically acclaimed author of Legend of a Suicide, is a devastating novel about a marriage, a couple blighted by [...]
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This year I read more novels by living, breathing writers than by stone cold dead writers. This is a first for me. However, if the truth be told, many of the contemporary novels I started were left unfinished. It’s partly due to the nature of the job. Publishers throw box loads of fiction at us [...]
Filed under: Australian Author, Contemporary Literature | Tagged: Animal People, Caroline Overington, Charlotte Wood, Kylie Ladd, Last Summer, Matilda Is Missing | Leave a Comment »
My nine year old daughter spotted You Deserve Nothing on my bedside table and was immediately incensed by the title. “Who deserves nothing?” she demanded. “Why do they deserve nothing? That’s SO mean! Everyone deserves something.” While I thoroughly enjoyed Alexander Maksik’s debut novel, I must admit that as I read the book I pondered [...]
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The Booktopia Book Guru asks Kylie Ladd author of Last Summer and After the Fall Six Sharp Questions —————————— 1. Congratulations, you have a new book. What is it about and what does it mean to you? Last Summer is about what happens to a close group of friends when the man at their centre, [...]
Filed under: Australian Author, Author Interview, Contemporary Literature, Fiction, Writing Style, Writing tips | Tagged: After the Fall, Breath, Dog Boy, Jane Eyre, Jasper jones, Kylie Ladd, Last Summer, Romeo and Juliet, Six Sharp Questions, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, The Catcher in the Rye, The Handmaid’s Tale, The Life, The World According to Garp, To Kill a Mockingbird | Leave a Comment »
Have you found Jesus? The publishing industry certainly has, and they’re not letting him go. Why would they, when he’s responsible for so many sales? There’s that perennial best-seller, the Holy Bible, for a start, for which Jesus can take at least half the credit. There’s the multitudinous scholarly texts and mediations on his legacy; [...]
Filed under: Contemporary Literature, Review | Tagged: Claudius, I, Kylie Ladd, Last Summer, Leslie Cannold, The Book of Rachael, The Final Testament of the Holy Bible, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ, The Gospel According to the Son, The Last Temptation of Chris, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe | Leave a Comment »
By the simple act of telling a story a good book can carry a light into the dark and unexamined corners of a reader’s life. The darkest of these unexamined corners is occupied by the single irrefutable truth of our existence, death. Left in the shadows this stark fact can take on all of the [...]
Filed under: Australian Author, Contemporary Literature, Review | Tagged: After the Fall, John Purcell, Kylie Ladd, Last Summer | 2 Comments »
Malcolm Knox knows how to get my attention. I first became aware of him when I chanced across his 2006 book Secrets Of The Jury Room, a dramatic account of his experiences as a juror on a lengthy criminal trial. A few years earlier I had been in a similar situation as the foreperson on [...]
Filed under: Australian Author, Contemporary Literature, Review | Tagged: Breath, Jamaica, Kylie Ladd, Malcolm Knox, Scattered, Secrets Of The Jury Room, The Life, Tim Winton | 1 Comment »
A complaint has been lodged in the UK and echoed here in Australia – women writers of fiction are not being taken seriously. Case in point: Fewer women than men are published in hardback. This point may seem meaningless. The economy and ease of the paperback makes it the choice of any sensible consumer, anyway. [...]
Filed under: Australian Author, Book retailing trends, Contemporary Women's Fiction, Fiction, Literary Criticism, Literary Prizes, Publishing, Writing Style | Tagged: Authors, Books, Caroline Overington, Fiona McGregor, Hardbacks, Kylie Ladd, Paperbacks, Women, writers | 8 Comments »
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Kerri Sackville launches When My Husband Does the Dishes…
When My Husband Does the Dishes… by Kerri Sackville was launched last Thursday night Cunningly disguised as a wino to throw off the paparazzi, author and journalist Mark Dapin was on hand to officially launch the book… Then the star of the night, the gorgeous Kerri Sackville, seduced her audience with a rendition of the [...]
Filed under: Australian Author, Biography/Memoir, Humour, Non Fiction, Parenting, Social Commentary | Tagged: Kerri Sackville, King of the Cross, Kylie Ladd, Mark Dapin, Pippa Masson, Random House, When My Husband Does the Dishes... | 3 Comments »