Here are some of our favourite articles and reviews from this year.
Authors on their own books
- Graeme Simsion tells the story behind The Rosie Project.
- Hannah Kent on writing Burial Rites.
- John Safran on writing Murder in Mississippi
Film and TV
- Nina Kenwood on the best female leads on TV
- Bronte Coates on how the film Dirty Dancing changed her life
- Book versus film: The Silver Linings Playbook
- The secret Readings Friday Night Lights fan club
- Alice Gage on filmmaker Jeff Nichols
- Book versus film: Catching Fire
Writers reflecting on their favourite books
- Michelle Law on Jane Eyre
- A.S. Patric on Richard Yates
- Krissy Kneen on James Salter
- Will Heyward on Karl Ove Knausgaard
- SJ Finn on Wayne Macauley
- Maria Takolander on Diego Marani
- Mel Campbell on Miles Franklin
- Ellena Savage on Joan Didion, Susan Sontag and Sylvia Plath
Reviews
- Martin Shaw reviews A History of Silence by Lloyd Jones
- Our staff review Barracuda by Christos Tsiolkas
- Robbie Egan reviews Love & Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere by Poe Ballantine
- Kate Goldsworthy reviews The Double (And Other Stories) by Maria Takolander
- Luke May reviews The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
- Deborah Crabtree reviews The Crane Wife by Patrick Ness
- Jess Au reviews Out Of Shape by Mel Campbell
- Jess Au reviews Night Games by Anna Krien
- Belle Place reviews The Night Guest by Fiona McFarlane
- Bronte Coates reviews My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
Bookish thoughts
- Fiona Hardy on crime book covers
- Bronte Coates on why her literary journal exists
- Our top five Quarterly Essays
Young adult
- Young adult authors recommend their favourite young adult books
- A conversation about Hilary T Smith’s novel Wild Awake
- Kim Kane and Marion Roberts on writing a YA novel together
- Cassandra Golds on writing her YA novel Pureheart
- A beginner’s guide to reading YA as an adult
