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The Great Unknown authors: A.S. Patric

This is the eighth post published in conjunction with the release ofThe Great Unknown,where authors share their experience of writing eerie stories for the anthology.The Great Unknownis available fromBooktopia,Readings,Avid Reader,Fishpond(free shipping worldwide) and all good bookstores. You might also want to add it to your shelves onGoodreads.

A.S. Patric‘s excellent third book,Bruno Kramzer, was released by Finlay Lloyd last September. He is also the author of the collectionsLas Vegas for...

The Waterfall by Margaret Drabble

Jane has just has her second child. She is recovering in bed in her too-warm room, dealing with complex feelings of isolation (experiencing both loneliness and a desire to be left alone). Her husband is gone. Her cousin Lucy and her husband James begin to drop in to look after Jane and keep her company.

James begins to stay overnight, and an intense passion develops between Jane and James in the confines of the room. Jane, in falling for James, is ‘drowned in a willing sea’. Much of her langua...

The Great Unknown authors: Marion Halligan

This is the seventh post published in conjunction with the release ofThe Great Unknown,where authors share their experience of writing eerie stories for the anthology, and give you an idea of what to expect (and, I hope, look forward to).The Great Unknownis available fromBooktopia,Readings, Avid Reader,Fishpond(free shipping worldwide) and all good bookstores. You might also want to add it to your shelves onGoodreads.

Marion Halligan is an award-winning Australian novelist and short story writ...

Merry everything to you

I’m tucked away in the English countryside with my partner, sister, her girlfriend, a puppy called Beauly, and David Copperfieldon my ereader. We have a chook and a ham, plenty of booze, and space all around us. The puppy is hard work! But when she looks at you with those big black eyes, you forgive all the nips and crying in the night.

It’s not long until our adventure is over! We’ve spent a good deal of time in England, Scotland, Norway and Spain. We’ve worked and volunteered. I finished two...

The story of my book, for the Readings blog

While I was writing my thesis I’d get hooked on different TV series and watch episodes at night while my partner was at work. I managed to turn mySimpsonsmarathons into a chapter in my exegesis, and it was while watching the original series ofThe Twilight Zonethat the bookThe Great Unknownwas born. We can also thank social media.

I tweeted one night about entering the Zone and Bronwyn Mehan, the publisher at Spineless Wonders, told me she’d always wanted to put together an anthology based on t...

The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton

The Luminaries

Eleanor Catton

Little, Brown

9780316074315

Winner of the 2013 Man Booker Prize

I’ve woken up around 4am the past couple of nights thinking about this book. My thoughts on it aren’t final but this is a space where conversations happen, and I need to talk.

The Luminaries is an engaging page-turner, a mystery set in a 19th Century New Zealand gold town. It’s a successful pastiche of the Victorian novel, with omniscient narration (informing and withholding from the reader at will; descri...

The Great Unknown authors: Guy Salvidge

This is the sixth post published in conjunction with the release ofThe Great Unknownthis month,where authors share their experience of writing eerie stories for the anthology, and give you an idea of what to expect (and, I hope, look forward to).The Great Unknownis available to pre-order fromBooktopia,Readings,Fishpond(free shipping worldwide) and all good bookstores. You might also want to add it to your shelves onGoodreads.

Guy Salvidge’s speculative neo-noir story ‘A Void’ was shortlisted f...

The Great Unknown authors: Kathy Charles

This is the fifth post published in conjunction with the release ofThe Great Unknownthis month,where authors share their experience of writing eerie stories for the anthology, and give you an idea of what to expect (and, I hope, look forward to).The Great Unknownis available to pre-order fromBooktopia,Readings,Fishpond(free shipping worldwide) and all good bookstores. You might also want to add it to your shelves onGoodreads.

Kathy Charles captures the voice of a hard-done-by bloke perfectly i...

Maria Takolander’s The Double

9781922079763

Text Publishing

August 2013

One of the best contemporary short story collections I’ve read, Takolander’s fictions are intellectual, dark, strange and often dystopian. The tone is of casual realism, but what’s described is beyond that: fantastical, nightmarish or just off; my favourite kind of fiction. If you like Kafka or Beckett, or MJ Hyland for that matter, you’ll like Takolander; or if you find meaninglessness meaningful. Or if you like your imagery as dark crystals:

a woman rem...

The Great Unknown authors: Ali Alizadeh

This is the fourth in a series of posts leading up to the release ofThe Great Unknown, where authors share their experience of writing eerie stories for the anthology, and give you an idea of what to expect (and, I hope, look forward to).The Great Unknownis available to pre-order fromBooktopia,Readings,Fishpond(free shipping worldwide) and all good bookstores. You might also want to add it to your shelves onGoodreads.

Today, Ali Alizadehtells us about the process behindhis story ‘Truth and Rec...