2008 Adelaide Writers' Week

The 2008 Adelaide Writers' Week, held to coincide with the city's Festival of Arts, has released its line-up of local and international authors.

Prominent amongst the authors are Paul Auster, Geraldine Brooks, Peter Carey, Garry Disher, Linda Grant, Siri Hustvedt, Margo Lanagan, David Malouf, Ian McEwan, Gerald Murnane and Dorothy Porter. Something for all tastes it would seem.

A detailed program of events with full information on sessions and participating writers will be available in early February 2008. The main festival runs from 29th February to 16th March. I think the Writers' Week runs from 2nd to 7th March, but it's a bit hard to be sure.

Currently Reading

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 The Tango Briefing by Adam Hall
The fifth of Adam Hall's Quiller series from 1973 and probably about his best. More physical than McCarry.

 

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 The Tears of Autumn by Charles McCarry
McCarry's masterful spy thriller from 1974. Paul Christopher investigates the asssassination of John F Kennedy.

 

Recently Read

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 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K Rowling
The seventh and last book in the series. You get this far and you have to finish it off.

 

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 Why She Loves Him by Wendy James
Short stories from the author of Out of the Silence and The Steele Diaries.

 

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Blind Eye by Stuart MacBride
Macbride's fifth DS McRae novel - hard to see it getting more gruesome than this.

 

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State of Emergency by Sam Fisher
Cinematic, high-tech, futuristic rescue fiction. This might have started its own genre.

 

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Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey
A coming-of-age novel set in a small WA mining town in the 1960s. Ticks all the relevant boxes.

 

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Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon
Chabon's homage to the adventure novel. Reminiscent of Moorcock and Leiber.

 

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Headlong by Susan Varga
When is life still worth living, or is it better to die with dignity?

 

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The Pages by Murray Bail
Bail's first novel since Eucalyptus, about an Outback genius philosopher - or is he? [Shortlisted for the 2009 Miles Franklin Award.]

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