Village of Writers
We reached out to a few of Balmain’s resident authors and asked them what book they have enjoyed reading the most this year.
Meryl Hare’s life work enriching private lives through interior design
The director of award-winning interior design company Hare+Klein talks her transient childhood, Nepalese master-weavers and the years-long journey of designing a home.
Big guns, huge balls: Peter Charley on infiltrating the NRA
In How to Sell a Massacre, Peter Charley explains why hidden cameras and fake identities were necessary to his information-gathering investigation.
How to tell if an old wine is genuine: from the Sydney merchant who found Stalin’s secret wine
John Baker, author of ‘Stalin’s Wine Cellar’, shares some tips.
Biographer Stuart Coupe shares top 10 Paul Kelly playlist
Paul Kelly’s former manager and latest biographer sneaks in a whole ‘Professor Ratbaggy’ album.
The lost legend: Olsen Filipaina, Pacific Revolution pioneer
A new biography brings justice to the story of a rugby league hero.
Hope near the end of the world: Charlotte McConaghy on her new literary spec-fic
Charlotte McConaghy talks with Roaring Stories on The Last Migration: a wrenching spec fic about desolation, discovery and – finally – hope.
‘Just a joke until it’s not’ – Gabriel Bergmoser’s new thriller takes Australian masculinity to its monstrous extreme
Gabriel Bergmoser on his fast-paced new Australian thriller, The Hunted.
Haunted by the monsters she writes: Q&A with crime thriller author LA Larkin
Local author LA Larkin shares the strange allure and perils of writing crime fiction.
Finding Eadie, Alice and mystery in wartime London
Author Caroline Beecham shares the rich history behind her new historical fiction, Finding Eadie.