We chat to some of the big winners at last night’s Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, Darleen Bungey, Claire Zorn and Ross Coulthart, about the writing life and their favourite books of 2015. Enjoy! How do you get started writing each morning? Darleen Bungey (winner of the Best Non-Fiction award for John Olsen: An Artist’s Life): Getting started means going straight to the desk ̵... Read more

The Booktopia Book Guru asks Claire Zorn author of  The Protected and The Sky So Heavy   Ten Terrifying Questions ____________ 1. To begin with why don’t you tell us a little bit about yourself – where were you born? Raised? Schooled? I was born, raised and schooled in the lower Blue Mountains. I lived there until I was about 24 when I moved to Sydney’s Inner West. Now I live in Wollongon... Read more