Brunswick Bound Books

Nick Gadd is a novelist and essayist.  His first novel Ghostlines won a Victoria Premier's Literary Award and a Ned Kelly Award.  Nick's essays and articles have apeared in Meanjin , Griffith Review , Kill Your Darlings , Elsewhere: A Journal of Place , The Guardian and in several anthologies. Nick will be reading at First Chapters on Friday 6 March from his new novel Death of a Typographer . 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? I’m reading part of the opening chapter of Death of a Typographer , in which the reader first encounters my co-investigators when they meet each other at a murder scene. Martin Kern has a special sensitivity to fonts, a skill that he uses to solve typographical crimes. Lucy Tan is a hard-working journalist with a punctuation fetish and eyebrows like swung dashes. In this chapter you will hear the first of many references to ...

Alex Landragin is a French-Armenian-Australian writer.  Now a freelance author, he is a former writer of Lonely Planet travel guides in Australia, Europe and Africa, and his writing has appeared in The Australian, The Sydney Morning Herald and the Los Angeles Review of Books.  He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Melbourne and is a past recipient of an Australia Council Emerging Writers Grant. Alex will be reading at First Chapters on Friday 7 February from his debut novel Crossings . 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? Crossings is about two characters who can ‘cross’ from one body into another. Sometimes those crossings are a little, shall we say, underhand. I’ll be reading a description of my favourite of those crossings scenes, where the narrator tricks a morose young man into the undertaking. 2. How would you describe your writing? Labyri...

Ender Baskan is the author of the novel A Portrait of Alice as a Young Man published by Vre Books.  His work revolves around the condition of the contemporary psychosphere.  Poetics, revolution and the Australian Dream are some of his prime obsessions.  He is currently writing postcards.  Ender is the recipient of the 2014/15 Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship for Prose.   Ender will be reading from A Portrait of Alice as a Young Man at First Chapters on Friday 7 February.   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? The piece is from my novel A Portrait of Alice as a Young Man . It is fiction but its not a novel in the classic sense. What starts off as a road novel turns into a meditation on the question of how can we be in Australia. The narrative is like a rocket on the space shuttle, I need just enough of it to get through the str...

Meg Mundell is a writer and academic.  The Trespassers  (UQP, August 2019) is her second novel.  Black Glass  (2011) is Meg’s critically acclaimed first novel, and  Things I Did for Money  (2013) is her debut short story collection. Past day jobs include freelance journalist, policy analyst, nightclub DJ, ventriloquist’s assistant, and deputy editor of The Big Issue Australia .  Meg holds a PhD in creative writing and a BA in psychology and philosophy, and her academic research focuses on place, spatial justice, and narratives of homelessness. Meg also runs the project WeAre Here , which uses creative writing to explore understandings of place with people who have experienced homelessness (www.homelesswriting.org). Meg will be reading from The Trespasser s at First Chapters on Friday 1 November. 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 chos...

Miriam Sved is an editor and the writer of Game Day and A Universe of Sufficient Size .  Her novella All the Things I Should've Given was a winner of Griffith Review's 2018 Novella Project , and her short fiction has been widely published including in Best Australian Stories, Meanjin and Overland .  She has also been a contributing editor on three feminist anthologies, published by Picador/Pan Macmillan: #MeToo: Stories from the Australian movement , Mothers & Others: Australian writers on why not all women are mothers and not all mothers are the same and Just Between Us: Australian writers tell the truth about female friendship. Miriam will be reading rom A Universe of Sufficient Size  at First Chapters on Friday 1 November.   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? The piece I’m reading is from the beginning of my novel A Universe of Suffi...

Sonia Orchard is the author of Something More Wonderful and The Virtuoso, which won the Indie Award for Best Debut Fiction of 2009.  She has a PhD in Creative Writing and lives in the Macedon Ranges with her husband and three children. Sonia will be reading from her new novel Into the Fire at First Chapters on Friday 3 May . 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? Intothe Fire is the story of a female friendship, remembered by one of the women – Lara – shortly after her friend’s mysterious death in a house fire. In some ways, it’s an examination of some of the complexities of modern womanhood – balancing career and motherhood, gender politics, factional feminism – and the choices women make and the ramifications of these choices. The excerpt I’m reading is set after the first real rift in the women’s friendship – when Alice (Lara’s friend) becomes a ...

Alice Robinson has had fiction, essays and review published widely in literary journals including Kill Your Darlings, The Lifted Brow, Overland, TEXT, Firefles, Arena and Meanjin .  Her debut novel Anchor Point was longlisted for The Stella Prize and the Indie Book Awards in 2016. She has a Bachelor of Creative Arts from The University of Melbourne and a PhD in Creative Writing from Victoria University, where she was award the Vice Chancellor's Award for Research and Research Training. Alice lives in Warragul with her family. She will be reading at First Chapters on Friday 1 March from her novel The Glad Shout . 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? The protagonist of The Glad Shout , Isobel, and her three year-old daughter, Matilda, have been evacuated to a big sports stadium in Melbourne following the destruction of their home, in the wake of a cat...