Josephine Moon's first novel, The Tea Chest (2014), delighted readers with its strong heroine and enchanting story. It became an instant success. Her second novel, The Chocolate Promise (2015), was a love-story with a difference set in luscious Provence and rural Tasmania and was also a bestseller. The Beekeeper's Secret, a novel of family and the happiness, guilt and grief that can lie within them, has just been released. You can buy it here.
Moon selects the five books that inspired her to become a writer.
Written from the point of view of the horses, this series had me mesmerised from the first words. As a diehard tragic horse lover, particularly of grey horses, this book took me deep into the world of wild horses in Australia and made me a reader, which is of course the first prerequisite for being a writer. (I have many fond memories of racing to my school library with my cotton library bag swinging by my side, my heart fluttering, wondering of the next book would be on the shelf.) The Australian landscapes let my imagination play in my backyard. In fact, I wrote my first book at the age of nine, entitled "Starlight the Brumby". Gee, I wonder what influenced that!
Vikram Seth’s novel, A Suitable Boy is to be adapted for the BBC by screenwriter Andrew Davies (Pride and Prejudice, War and Peace). Each episode in the eight-part series will...
On May 9, 2017
Tartarus Press first published The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley as a 300-copy limited edition in 2014. This month Hachette in Australia has released the debut novel.
On September 28, 2015
The Last Hours by Minette Walters will be published in Australia on Wednesday September 27, 2017. It is the first novel in ten years from the internationally bestselling writer.
On June 15, 2017
90 years after Winnie the Pooh was first published a new book celebrates another 90th birthday.
On May 30, 2016
Justine Lewis spent her professional life writing legal advice – which some may say is similar to creative writing - but the lack of sexy heroes and happy endings led...
On April 29, 2015
Susannah Fullerton is one of Australia's leading authorities on 19th and early-20th century writers, and is a regular lecturer on the NSW speakers circuit, giving talks on the Bronte sisters,...
On July 12, 2012
