Donal Ryan has taken out the Guardian First Book Award 2013 with The Spinning Heart, a picture of rural life in post-crash Ireland. I haven’t read The Spinning Heart (which was long-listed for The Booker Prize) but I have read (and have reviewed here on Stillnotfussed) two of the other…
Brisbane Writers Festival
There’s a strong international contingent in the line up at the Brisbane’s Writers Festival which begins on the 5th of September and is the last of the major Australian festivals for 2012. Jeet Thayil, the Indian writer who has garnered strong reviews for his Booker long-listed novel Narcopolis, will be taking…