Archive
Champions of the Impossible: A history of the National Council of Women of Victoria 1902–1977 by Ada Norris
by Kay White •
Deep Gold by Arthur Maher & Seven Miles from Sydney by Lesley Thomson
by Stephen Knight •
Selected Poems by Andrew Taylor & New and Selected Poems by Philip Martin
by Philip Salom •
Outlaw and Lawmaker by Rosa Praed & Mothers of the Novel by Dale Spender
by Margaret Harris •
The Empire of Civilisation: The evolution of an imperial idea by Brett Bowden
by Roland Bleiker •
There is this battleground, see. On one side, shooting from the jungle, there are the literary agents. On the other, shooting from the swamps, are the publishers. And contrary to what you’re probably thinking the writer isn’t bleeding on the barbed wire, caught in the crossfire. Hell, no. The writer’s at home in silent safety, pencils sharpened, ruler straightened, papers just so, about to begin A New Work, for which the literary agent will extract from the publisher an advance twelve times bigger than the writer ever dared to hope for or believed possible.
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