‘A swell is simply radiating energy from an event across the horizon’
Australian author Tim Winton on why writing is like surfing, why a tiny fish gives him hope, and why the next generation has a right to be angry at the mess they've inherited
We have lift-off: Irish cultural calendar 2015
A year of Yeats. The return of the Gathering. The zaniness of TedFest. The muckiness of the National Ploughing Championships. The musical magic of Electric Picnic. The spectacular scenery of Earagail Arts Festival. And much more. Consider yourself told
Five Irish novels on Impac longlist
Books nominated by public libraries for consideration include 142 novels
Literary wizards of Australia and New Zealand
With the Tasmanian author Richard Flanagan announced as this year’s Booker winner, we bring you 10 great novels from Down Under
Humane search for meaning: I Refuse by Per Petterson
Review: In charting a life of losses, this novel has much to say about the struggle to make sense of existence
The perils of not letting go
Australian novelist Tim Winton has produced a profound tale of a last stab at salvation in ‘Eyrie’
Tim Winton’s best novel yet: Eyrie
Review: A fine novel about a good man’s fall from grace, but it is also about trying to live, or to at least make some sense of the effort it requires to even survive
Evie Wyld: ‘It certainly wasn’t the book I was hoping to write’
The writer’s second novel, about a female sheep shearer in Australia, reinforces that she is a distinctive and important new voice
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