Tracking Wakefield's authors

Rise and shine kiddies, let this new (and short!) week begin ... To be perfectly honest, we're struggling to keep up with our authors over here -- There's Dino Hodge, on Late Night Live with Phillip Adams last night discussing Don Dunstan. Wonderful interview. Then there's Kate Strohm, who's again heading to Italy to present on sibling issues discussed in her book, Siblings: Brothers and Sisters of Children with Disability. She presented at workshops in…

Monday links

The simple act of going into a bookshop and buying an Australian novel is now radical. The slightly more demanding act of reading that novel is political. This is a good in itself. This makes the work good. It stimulates the economy, not to mention your intellect and capacity for empathy. It also provides writers, editors and publishers with the means to continue doing what they do. Most importantly, it stimulates a conversation, creates a context in…

Oh, Don

It started innocently enough. In preparation for our launch of Don Dunstan, Intimacy and Liberty, we've been throwing some costume ideas around the office. Seventies, defs. This is the man who made those hot pink shorts so famous (see the book cover for proof). There's also that mini yukata from his resignation. The paisley blazer at his 70th. Or whatever it is that's going on here. How would we ever live up to his sartorial standards?…