On tour: Meet the author Sara Farizan
Sara Farizan is the author of the YA novels Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel and If You Could Be Mine (both Algonquin Books). She is attending the...
On tour: Meet the author Claire Tomalin
Claire Tomalin is the author of Charles Dickens: A Life, Jane Austen: A Life, The Invisible Woman (all Penguin), and several other literary biographies. She will be appearing at the...
On tour: Meet the author Xinran
Xinran is a Chinese journalist and author based in London. Her latest book Buy Me the Sky (Random House) looks at the social impact of China’s One Child Policy. She...
On tour: Meet the author Daniel Mendelsohn
Daniel Mendelsohn is an author and classicist, whose books include a collection of critical essays Waiting for the Barbarians (NY Review of Books); a memoir The Lost (HarperCollins); The Complete...
On tour: Meet the author James Patterson
James Patterson is the bestselling author of the ‘Alex Cross’ and ‘Women’s Murder Club’ series, among many others. His latest book is Rafe’s Aussie Adventure (with Martin Chatterton, Random House)...
On tour: Meet the author Anthony Horowitz
Anthony Horowitz is the bestselling author of the ‘Alex Rider’ series and ‘The Power of Five’ series (both Walker Books). He will be a guest of Sydney Writers Festival in May.What...
On tour: Meet the author John Scalzi
John Scalzi’s books include Lock In and Redshirts (both Hachette). He is travelling to Supernova in Melbourne and Swancon in Perth in April.What would you put on a shelf-talker for...
On tour: Meet the author Sally Gardner
Sally Gardner is the author of The Door That Led to Where (Hot Key Books, January). She will attend the 2015 Reading Matters Conference in Melbourne in late May.What would...
On tour: Meet the author Tom Rob Smith
Tom Rob Smith is the author of the psychological thriller The Farm (S & S). He is a guest of Adelaide Writers’ Week in February and March.What would you put...
On tour: Meet the author Elizabeth Gilbert
Elizabeth Gilbert is the author of The Signature of All Things (Bloomsbury). She is attending Adelaide Writers’ Week and touring Australia and New Zealand in February and March.What would you...
On tour: Meet the author Laurie Halse Anderson
Laurie Halse Anderson is attending the Reading Matters Conference in Melbourne in May. Her latest book is The Impossible Knife of Memory (Text).What would you put on a shelf-talker for...
On tour: Meet the author John Darnielle
John Darnielle is a writer, composer, guitarist, vocalist for The Mountain Goats and author of Wolf in a White Van (Scribe). He is travelling to Perth, Adelaide, Sydney and Melbourne...
On tour: Meet the author Roxane Gay
Roxane Gay is the writer of the novel An Untamed State (Corsair) and the collection of essays Bad Feminist (Corsair). She will be a guest of Adelaide Writers’ Week and...
On tour: Meet the author Stephan Pastis
Stephan Pastis is the author of the ‘Timmy Failure’ series (Walker Books). The latest title in the series, We Meet Again, was published in 2014. Pastis will be touring Australia...
On tour: Meet the author Robin Hobb
What are you reading right now?I have a galley of The City Stained Red by Sam Sykes (Victor Gollancz). Each chapter rotates to a different character and slowly the crack...
On tour: Meet the author Val McDermid
Val McDermid’s latest book is The Skeleton Road (Little, Brown, September). She is visiting Australia in September. What would you put on a shelf-talker for your book? Gripping storytelling with characters...
On tour: Meet the author Meg Wolitzer
US author Meg Wolitzer’s first novel for young adults is Belzhar (S&S, September). She will be travelling to Melbourne Writers Festival in August. What would you put on a shelf-talker...
On tour: Meet the author Rachael Herron
US-NZ author Rachael Herron is attending the Australian Romance Readers Convention in Sydney in August. Her latest novel is Pack Up the Moon (Bantam). The next instalment in her ‘Cypress...
On tour: Meet the author Vikram Chandra
Indian-American author Vikram Chandra is visiting Australia in May for the Sydney Writers’ Festival. His latest book is Geek Sublime: Writing Fiction, Coding Software (Faber). What would you put on...
On tour: Meet the author Irvine Welsh
Scottish author Irvine Welsh is visiting Australia in May. His latest book The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins (Jonathan Cape) is published in May. What would you put on a...