Saturday, September 20, 2014

The Rosie Effect & other book stories from the Sydney Morning Herald

The Rosie Effect, Graeme Simsion.

Graeme Simsion looks for the Rosie effect, again.

Helen Elliott 11:45pm Rosie and Don are back - but what sort of effect will pregnancy and a move to New York have on their lives?
Wordplay

David Astle: Wordplay

David Astle 12:15am Spring – my cue to capsize the mailbag. First a big thanks to all those who sent along riddles last week. David Astle upturns his mailbag.
My Story by Julia Gillard

Undercover

SUSAN WYNDHAM 12:15am Julia Gillard on tour; Peter Carey's brush with Julian Assange; Sydney Writers' Festival funding; Cats v dogs

Graeme Simsion and the global effect of Rosie

JASON STEGER 12:15am Graeme Simsion has followed up the huge success of 'The Rosie Project' with a sequel that takes his lovers to a New York pregnant with comic complications.

Take three: Jeff Popple reviews three top thrillers

Take Three dinkus Jeff Popple 12:00am Jeff Popple reviews three thrillers that made the grade.
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Val McDermid reveals women know more about fear than men

KAREN HARDY 12:00am The crime writer believes women understand the mechanics of fear because they're brought up being told the world is a dangerous place.

Death does not become them: Arise the new James Bond, Jane Austen and Sherlock Holmes

Literary revivals.
Illustrations: John Shakespeare LINDA MORRIS 11:45pm Forty years after the death of Agatha Christie, Hercule Poirot gets a new case to solve.

Short story author Jane Gardam takes her material from the world she knows best

At home in Sandwich, England: Short stories, Jane Gardam says, teach you when to stop. Brenda Niall 11:45pm Jane Gardam, now in her mid-80s, is still winning acclaim. But the real wonder is the stories themselves.

The return of Mark Henshaw

The Snow Kimono, by Mark HenshawDon Anderson 11:45pm A quarter century after his first novel, Mark Henshaw has published his second, The Snow Kimono, and a wonderful second innings it is.

Turning pages: The writers who struggle to survive

Midlist crisis: Mel Campbell has written an honest and disturbing piece for the Wheeler Centre website about what it's like to be an average-selling author in Australia. Jane Sullivan 11:45pm Authors, even highly regarded international names, are finding it harder and harder to sustain a career writing full-time. 

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