Tales of a Traveller

Longlisted in the 2016 Competition, GINA CHALLEN discovers Australia through the tales of Louis de Bernières: ‘The tales themselves are straightforward in the telling, uncomplicated, and de Bernières’ simple language creates a style that resonates with the rhythms and cadence of the spoken word…’

Once Upon a Time in India

SYLVIA PETTER’s Author Profile introduces us to Australian writer Janette Turner Hospital: ‘A spouse reluctantly accompanies her husband on sabbatical from a Canadian university to a town in Southern India. While he does research on the iconography of the temple in Trivandrum, she taps out a short story on a manual typewriter…’