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Palimpsest was launched at Gleebooks 17 April, 2010. Vrasidas Karalis and Ed Spence were there to speak about the book and Zoe Rodriguez was the charming MC for the night. The novel was born as a real book on 18 April by Australian Scholarly Publishing and is available for sale via their website or Gleebooks [...]

It is not that I ‘write what I know,’ but that I write what I need to know. It is not that I write what I have seen, but what I need to see. I write, not what I have learnt, but what I need to learn. I write, not what I have understood, but [...]

Signed contracts today for the publication of PALIMPSEST, a novel by Kathryn Koromilas.

Julian Barnes writes in The Guardian about going back to read Émile Zola’s Thérèse Raquin, because the play was about to open at the National Theatre. He finds that 150 years after it was written, the novel — about two lovers who kill a husband and by killing the husband kill their own desire and then [...]

This past summer I was given Shirley Hazzard’s The Great Fire in its Greek incarnation – Ο Έρωτας θα ανατείλει ξανά. When I first opened the package and saw the title – Love Will Rise Again – I tried not to cringe at what on first look seemed like a melodramatic Greek romance novel. I [...]

Another great book review by Apostolos Vasilakis over at Greekworks.com. This time it’s a review of George Pelecanos’s The Night Gardener. Vasilakis begins the review with a quote from Petros Markaris, the Greek crime writer (Deadline in Athens) who was the subject of Vasilakis’s previous reviews. The quote: [The] detective novel becomes more and more [...]

Just spied an article in The Journal News on Doris Lessing’s upcoming novel The Cleft. She told The Journal News that: I saw a science magazine which said that the basic human type is female and that men came along afterward,” she explains. “You have an original community of females, on a seashore, very conventional. [...]

Interesting piece in The Age about Kate Grenville’s The Secret River. Novelist Kate Grenville has upset historians by claiming her Booker-shortlisted The Secret River is a new form of history writing. …begins the report by Jane Sullivan. While researching the story, Grenville came across “dispatch from Governor Arthur Phillip, written a few months after the [...]