Brunswick Bound Books

Ruby Murray is a writer and journalist whose work has appeared in many publications including The Saturday Paper, Time Out, Meanjin, Dumbo Feather and Griffith Review .  She was selected as a SMH Best Young Novelist for her debut novel Running Dogs , which was also shortlisted in the 2013 NSW Premier's Literary Awards. Ruby will be reading at First Chapters on Friday 3 August from her novel The Biographer's Lover . We asked Ruby some general bookish questions to get to know her better and here is what she had to say. 1. Brunswick Bound has asked you to read a chapter from your published work.  Tell us what we can expect from the chapter you have chosen? This will be my first reading from The Biographer’s Lover . The novel hits the shelves that same week. So I either haven’t decided, or it’s a secret. The novel is about the an artist who didn’t go to a war, but still became one of the most famous war artists in the country; Australia sends official war artist...

"Julia Prendergast is a real writer who writes about real life". Bruce Pascoe Julia Prendergast has a PhD in Writing and Literature and is a lecturer in Writing and Literature at Swinburne University in Melbourne.  Julia will be reading at First Chapters on Friday 3 August from her novel The Earth Does Not Get Fat . We asked Julia some general bookish questions to get to know her better. 1. Brunswick Bound has asked you to read a chapter from your published work.  Tell us what we can expect from the chapter you have chosen? ‘ Sowing the Wind ’ is the first chapter I wrote towards The Earth DoesNot Get Fat . This chapter appears towards the end of the novel. The characters in this story would not leave me alone and so it became a novel in stories. Many chapters, including this one, are published as standalone short stories. The novel is a fractured narrative, in multiple first person voices. The setting of the chapter is the seaside—Mornington Peninsula foresho...

Koraly Dimitriadis is a widely published and acclaimed Cypriot-Australian poet, writer, actor and performer.  She is a hard-hitting writer of non-fiction and fiction who explores themes such as feminism, sexuality and culture while challenging the traditional norms of literature and art. Koraly will be reading at First Chapters on Friday 3 August from her book Love & Fuck Poems . 1. Brunswick Bound has asked you to read a piece from your published work.  Tell us what we can expect from the piece you have chosen? Since my story, Love and Fuck Poems , is told through poetry, I will be performing my poetry, so expect rawness of a Greek tragedy. 2. How would you describe the kind of books that you write? My upcoming poetry book is Just Give Me The Pills , which is also a novel-in-verse like Love and Fuck Poems, but I have also adapted these two books into a theatre show KORALY: “I say the wrong things all the time” and I have also created short...