Captain Panic and ‘The Hope Fault’: on being anxious in an uncertain landscape
By Tracy Farr All my life I’ve been a worrier, often anxious and – at times – prone to panic. I’ve panicked in waves. I’ve panicked on planes (sweating, swearing, singing th…
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Gallic Books has acquired The Choke, by Sofie Laguna
Gallic Books has acquired The Choke (March 2019), by Miles Franklin winner Sofie Laguna: a quick, cruel, coming-of-age tale in the vein of recent remarkable works on dangerous girl…
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Prodigal: A Novel About Loss and Love
My new novel Prodigal is about loss, but it’s also about love. Elizabeth Barrett Browning famously talked about the almost infinite ways of love and how it’s done and she was right…
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‘Little: Her story is one of those tales about history happening to other people, the little people caught up in it.’
Meet Edward Carey, author of Little, an extraordinary novel that will take you to a fascinating world you will never forget. In the next 13 questions, Edward will reveal little kno…
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Blog Post: ‘Secret Passions, Resentments and Entirely Unprofessional Thoughts’
When I first started writing The Threat Level Remains Severe, my novel set in the House of Commons, one of the themes I wanted to explore was the clash between public and private l…
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