Open Secrets

Open SecretsAuthor: Catriona Menzies Pike ISBN: 9780648062165 Publisher: Giramondo Publishing Year first published: 01 May 2022 Pages: 272 Format: Paperback softback The lives of writers are a topic of perennial fascination to readers and indeed to other writers. And yet the writer at work is often a mythologised figure, distant from the cares of the day. In Open Secrets, Australian writers reflect upon the material conditions that give rise to their writing

Upon recovery

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He also shares illuminating stories from his own odyssey of self-discovery

The caller knew everything about her

Make the connection now with people at work and in your world

to tell Italian billionaire Emilio de Luca she’s pregnant

Coventry and Sheffield

and of a house

Reproduced here is the Manuscrito de Reus alongside mosaics from his iconic salamander sculpture and an image of the Basilica de la Sagrada Familia

This book answers one of the most puzzling questions in contemporary art: how did performance artists of the '60s and '70s

Conibeer refused to pay ‘fines’ to the police and took his chances alongside gangs

Asagi must decide what it means to be human to protect what he loves most