Our literary hearts are aflutter on both sides of the Equator. In Australia there has been a flurry of good stuff coming out of the Sydney Writer’s Festival and this coming weekend in Melbourne the Williamstown Literary Festival kicks off.
At the same time, surely the world’s longest-running of its kind, the London Literature Festival, has started. We can go and see some of our writing heroes speak – from the brilliant, bolshy Catherine Deveny and Julia’s talented ex-colleague James Button at Williamstown, to The Gentle Author of Spitalfields Life fame or Orange Prize winner Barbara Kingsolver in London.
Alternatively you might like to enhance your own writing skills with masterclasses on how to become a journalist or songwriter at Williamstown, or a Poetry Butcher or Creative Writing School session in London.
Before you head off, we thought we’d pull together our best-read posts on books – to get you in the mood for some festival fun …
The Bulb’s top book posts:
How Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way changed my life
David Mitchell’s Linguistic Mastery in Cloud Atlas
Enlivening history: E.H. Gombrich’s A Little History of the World
Bob Carr, Australia’s best-read man
Jolts of literary inspiration from Jeffrey Euganides’ Middlesex
We need some new books to read! What are you or your book club reading at the moment?