Below is a small selection of adult fiction authors whose books are popular in our library.
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Anita Heiss is a proud member of the Wiradjuri Nation of central NSW, but was born in Gadigal Country and has spent much of her life on Dharawal land. She is one of Australia's most prolific and well-known authors publishing across genres including non-fiction, historical fiction, contemporary fictional and children's novels.
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Dr Anita Heiss, a proud member of the Wiradjuri Nation of Central New South Wales, is one of Australia’s most prolific and well-known authors, publishing across genres including non-fiction, historical fiction, women’s fiction, and children’s novels. She is a lifetime ambassador for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation, a charity dedicated to lifting literacy levels in remote Indigenous communities, so all children across Australia have the same choices and opportunities.
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Chris Hammer is a leading Australian crime fiction novelist, author of international bestsellers Scrublands and Silver.
Scrublands was an international bestseller and it was shortlisted for major writing awards in Australia, the UK and the United States. In the UK it was named the Sunday Times Crime Novel of the Year 2019 and won the prestigious UK Crime Writers’ Association John Creasey New Blood Dagger Award. The books are notable for their atmospheric Australian settings, range of colourful characters, intricate plots, descriptive language and emotional depth. Before turning to fiction, Chris was a journalist for more than thirty years. He reported from more than 30 countries on six continents for SBS TV. In Canberra, roles included chief political correspondent for The Bulletin, senior writer for The Age and Online Political Editor for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.
Live in conversation with Chris Hammer
We speak to Australian Author, Chris Hammer. Chris' books have sold over 285,000 copies worldwide and have been twice shortlisted for the ABIA General Fiction Book of the Year.
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Christian White is an Australian author and screenwriter. His debut novel, The Nowhere Child, won the 2017 Wheeler Centre Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Best Unpublished Manuscript. Since publication The Nowhere Child has been shortlisted for major awards including the Australian Book Industry Awards’ General Fiction Book of the Year and Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year, and the Indie Book Awards’ Debut Fiction Book of the Year.
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Since his acclaimed debut novel "The Nowhere Child", Christian White has established a reputation that has led to numerous awards as well as extending into TV and film screenplays. In this online webinar Christian discussed his second novel, the mystery thriller "The Wife and the Widow".
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Conn Iggulden is one of the most successful authors of historical fiction writing today. He has written three previous bestselling historical series, including Wars of the Roses. Dunstan is a stand-alone novel set in the red-blooded world of tenth-century England, and The Falcon of Sparta is a stand-alone in which Iggulden returns to the Ancient World. The first book in his new Athenian series, The Gates of Athens, was a Sunday Times top five bestseller. Protector is the latest instalment in the Athenian series.
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Conn Iggulden's fabulously enjoyable Keynote Address at the Historical Novel Society Conference 2014, in London. Video by Johnny Yates for the HNS.
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Internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed writer, Dervla McTiernan is the author of The Ruin, The Scholar and The Good Turn. The Ruin was published in 2018 and is the first in the detective Cormac Reilly series. The Ruin was a top ten bestseller and an Amazon Best Book of July 2018.
Dervla spent twelve years working as a lawyer. Following the global financial crisis, she moved from Ireland to Australia and turned her hand to writing. Dervla is a member of the Sisters in Crime and Crime Writers Association, and lives in Perth, Australia, with her husband and two children.
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Meet the author - Dervla McTiernan
Find out all about this month's book The Scholar in our interview with Dervla McTiernan. Want to know more about her process and what she is working on next? Check it out.
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Donna Leon is an American author of a series of crime novels set in Venice, Italy, featuring the fictional hero Commissario Guido Brunetti. In 2003, she received the Corine Literature Prize. Leon lived in Venice for over 30 years and now resides in Switzerland where she is a citizen. Her Commissario Brunetti novels all take place in or around Venice. They are written in English and have been translated into many foreign languages, but – at Leon's request – not into Italian. The ninth Brunetti novel, Friends in High Places, won the Crime Writers' Association Silver Dagger in 2000. German television has produced 26 Commissario Brunetti episodes for broadcast.
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New titles in this series are on their way: Death at La Fenice, Death in a strange country, The anonymous Venetian, A Venetian reckoning, Aqua Alta, The Death of faith, Friends in high places.
Donna Leon in conversation with Barbara Peters. Leon discusses her new novel, Transient Desires.
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Elena Ferrante is a pseudonymous Italian novelist. Ferrante's books, originally published in Italian, have been translated into many languages. Her four-book series of Neapolitan Novels are her most widely known works. Time magazine called Ferrante one of the 100 most influential people in 2016.
Despite being recognized as a novelist on an international scale, Ferrante has kept her identity secret since the 1992 publication of her first novel. Speculation as to her true identity has been rife, and several theories, based on information Ferrante has given in interviews as well as analysis drawn from the content of her novels, have been put forth.
In 2003, Ferrante published La Frantumaglia, a volume of letters, essays, reflections and interviews, translated into English in 2016, which sheds some light on her background. In a 2013 article for The New Yorker, critic James Wood summarized what is generally accepted about Ferrante, based in part on letters collected in that volume: a number of her letters have been collected and published. From them, we learn that she grew up in Naples, and has lived for periods outside Italy. She has a classics degree; she has referred to being a mother. One could also infer from her fiction and from her interviews that she is not now married...In addition to writing, "I study, I translate, I teach."
Ferrante has repeatedly dismissed suggestions that she is actually a man, telling Vanity Fair in 2015 that questions about her gender are rooted in a presumed "weakness" of female writers.
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Elena Ferrante has long been considered one of the best writers of her generation in Italy, but now her novels and acclaim have spread across the United States and around the world. Her Neapolitan Novels are beautifully and expertly translated by Ann Goldstein. We were honored to present this very special evening with Ann Goldstein and Jhumpa Lahiri in conversation about the power, beauty and ferocity of Ferrante's writing, with a special focus on the final novel of the series, "The Story of the Lost Child".
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Evie Wyld grew up in Australia and the UK. Evie’s second novel, All The Birds, Singing, was published in 2013. It was longlisted for the 2014 Stella Prize and the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, and shortlisted for the Costa Novel Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. She is the winner of the 2013 Encore Award, the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize, the 2014 Miles Franklin Award and the 2021 Stella Prize.
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BWF is incredibly excited to be presenting Evie Wyld in conversation with Michaela Kalowski. Her third book The Bass Rock, is a compulsive read, a fierce look at male violence, an ode to the resilience of women. A story woven over four centuries with three women linked to each other and the place that holds their stories.
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Jane Harper is the author of international bestsellers The Dry, Force of Nature, The Lost Man and The Survivors. Her books are published in 40 territories worldwide.
Jane has won numerous top awards including the CWA Gold Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel, the British Book Awards Crime and Thriller Book of the Year, the Australian Book Industry Awards Book of the Year and the Australian Indie Awards Book of the Year.
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Jane Harper was working as a business journalist when she decided to write crime-thriller The Dry in her spare time. It became one of the most successful debuts in Australian publishing history and is now a movie starring Eric Bana.
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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE was an English writer, poet, WWI veteran (a First Lieutenant in the Lancashire Fusiliers, British Army), philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the high fantasy classic works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Christopher Tolkien published a series of works based on his father's extensive notes and unpublished manuscripts, including The Silmarillion. These, together with The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, form a connected body of tales, poems, fictional histories, invented languages, and literary essays about an imagined world called Arda, and Middle-earth within it. Between 1951 and 1955, Tolkien applied the word "legendarium" to the larger part of these writings. Tolkien married his childhood sweetheart, Edith, and they had four children. He wrote them letters each year as if from Santa Claus, and a selection of these was published in 1976 as The Father Christmas Letters.
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In this BBC-interview from 1964 (released in 1971) Tolkien sits down for a talk with Denys Gueroult. Inspired by British adventure stories, European mythology and Catholicism, Tolkien created an enormous high fantasy (epic fantasy) world with its own languages, races, geography, mythologies and both heroic, evil and complex characters. Tolkien was also a close friend of his fellow fantasy writer C. S. Lewis.
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Margaret Eleanor Atwood, (born November 18, 1939, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada), Canadian writer best known for her prose fiction and for her feminist perspective. The Handmaid’s Tale is constructed around the written record of a woman living in sexual slavery in a repressive Christian theocracy of the future that has seized power in the wake of an ecological upheaval; a TV series based on the novel premiered in 2017 and was cowritten by Atwood. Atwood’s 2005 novel, The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus, was inspired by Homer’s Odyssey. In addition to writing, Atwood taught English literature at several Canadian and American universities. She won the PEN Pinter Prize in 2016 for the spirit of political activism threading her life and works.
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Internationally acclaimed Canadian Author Margaret Atwood sits down for a discussion on a number of themes. Having penned the likes of The Handmaid's Tale, Oryx and Crake, and The Blind Assasin, Maragaret Atwood proudly represents Canada on the world stage every day. Here, she sits down for an exclusive one hour conversation with fellow writer Charles Foran during the 2020 Edition of the Frankfurt Book Fair to take a deep dive on the event's themes: Hope Against Dispair, We Contain Multitudes and Picture Perfect.
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Philippa Gregory is one of the world’s foremost historical novelists. She wrote her first ever novel, Wideacre, when she was completing her PhD in eighteenth-century literature and it sold worldwide, heralding a new era for historical fiction. Her flair for blending history and imagination developed into a signature style and Philippa went on to write many bestselling novels, including The Other Boleyn Girl and The White Queen. Now a recognised authority on women’s history, Philippa graduated from the University of Sussex and received a PhD from the University of Edinburgh, where she is a Regent and was made Alumna of the Year in 2009.
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Philippa Gregory in Conversation
Award-winning and "New York Times" best-selling author of "The Other Boleyn Girl" and her newest novel, "Tidelands".
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