On tour: Meet the author Junot Diaz
US author Junot Diaz is visiting Australia in August for the Melbourne and Brisbane writers festivals. Diaz is the author of books including The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,...
On tour: Meet the author Lucy Knisley
US author, illustrator and comic book artist Lucy Knisley is visiting Australia in August for the Melbourne Writers Festival’s schools program. Knisley’s books include French Milk (Touchstone) and Relish (First...
On tour: Meet the author Kathy Reichs
Forensic anthropologist and author Kathy Reichs is visiting Australia in September. Her new book Bones of the Lost (William Heinemann) is the latest instalment in Reichs’ bestselling Temperance Brennan series,...
On tour: Meet the author Abbi Glines
US new adult author Abbi Glines visited Australia in June. Glines has three books coming out in 2013: one in the ‘Sea Breeze’ series and two in the ‘Fallen Too...
On tour: Meet the author Ruth Ozeki
Canadian-American author Ruth Ozeki is visiting Australia in September. Her most recent novel A Tale for the Time Being (Text) tells the story of Ruth, who finds the diary of...
On tour: Meet the author Jackson Pearce
US young adult author Jackson Pearce is visiting Australia in July for the Children’s and Young Adult Writers and Illustrators Conference in Perth. Pearce is the author of several novels,...
On tour: Meet the author Julia Quinn
Romance author Julia Quinn is visiting Australia in August for the Romance Writers of Australia Conference in Fremantle. Quinn’s newest book is the ninth in the ‘Bridgertons’ series, The Bridgertons:...
On tour: Meet the author Anita Desai
Indian novelist and professor Anita Desai is visiting Australia in May for the Sydney Writers’ Festival. Desai is the author of short-story collections and novels for adults and children, three...
On tour: Meet the author Dermot Healy
Irish novelist, memoirist, poet and short-story writer Dermot Healy is visiting Australia in May for the Sydney Writers’ Festival. His latest novel Long Time, No See (Faber & Faber) was nominated for the International...
On tour: Meet the author Mark Forsyth
British writer, journalist and blogger Mark Forsyth is visiting Australia in May for the Sydney Writers’ Festival. His two books about words, The Etymologicon and The Horologicon, are published together...
On tour: Meet the author Jane Smiley
American author Jane Smiley will visit Australia in July to attend the Mildura Writers’ Festival. Smiley, a writer of novels and short stories for adults and children, won the 1992...
On tour: Meet the author Deborah Ellis
Canadian writer Deborah Ellis is visiting Australia in August for the Melbourne Writers Festival’s Schools’ Program. Her latest book, the third in the ‘Parvana’ series, is Parvana’s Promise (A&U), the...
On tour: Meet the author Raina Telgemeier
Graphic novelist Raina Telgemeier is a guest of the Centre for Youth Literature’s Reading Matters conference in Melbourne in May. Her autobiographical book Smile (Scholastic) was an international bestseller, and...
On tour: Meet the author Hugh Howey
American author Hugh Howey is visiting Australia in April. His latest book is Shift (Century), the prequel to Wool. What would you put on a shelf-talker for your book? ‘Help! Don’t let them...
On tour: Meet the author Libba Bray
Libba Bray is a guest of the Centre for Youth Literature’s Reading Matters conference in Melbourne in May. Her latest book is The Diviners (A&U). What would you put on a...
On tour: Meet the author Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Spanish novelist Carlos Ruiz Zafón is visiting Australia and New Zealand in May. His first novel for adults The Shadow of the Wind was an international bestseller, as was its prequel...
On tour: Meet the author Keith Gray
Keith Gray is a guest of the Centre for Youth Literature’s Reading Matters conference in Melbourne in May. He recently edited a collection of YA short stories about the afterlife...
On tour: Meet the author Anne de Courcy
UK journalist and author Anne de Courcy is travelling to the Perth Writers Festival and Adelaide Writers’ Week in February and March. Her latest book is The Fishing Fleet: Husband-Hunting...
On tour: Meet the author Tom Holland
British novelist and historian Tom Holland is travelling to the Perth Writers Festival, Adelaide Writers’ Week, Canberra and Sydney in February and March. His latest book is In the Shadow of...
On tour: Meet the author Lauren Beukes
Lauren Beukes is travelling to Australia in May. Her latest book is The Shining Girls (HarperCollins). What would you put on a shelf-talker for your book? A time-travelling serial killer is unstoppable...