Annabel Smith
July 27, 2015
Welcome back to Six Degrees of Separation, a monthly meme in which authors Annabel Smith and Emma Chapman select a book, and participants link it to any other six books that come to mind. This month’s starting point is The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert. I initially had little interest in reading Elizabeth Gilbert‘s The […]
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June 6, 2015
Welcome back to Six Degrees of Separation, a literary meme created by Annabel Smith and Emma Chapman in which we link a book to six others in any way that comes to mind. This month begins with The Casual Vacancy by J K Rowling. For me, this is about leaving a space for Indigenous authors to tell […]
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March 16, 2015
Annabel Smith has created a disturbingly plausible world in her latest novel, The Ark, which is set later this century in a post peak oil Australia. An underground bunker, aka the Ark, has been established to preserve five billion seed specimens. As violence and lawlessness (known in the book as the Chaos) increase, 26 people consisting […]
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March 10, 2015
Welcome to the March edition of Six Degrees of Separation, a meme in which authors Annabel Smith and Emma Chapman choose a book, and we link it to six others in any way that comes to mind. This month, that book is Wild by Cheryl Strayed. As I’ve been reflecting on the 2015 Perth Writers Festival, and […]
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December 12, 2014
I’ve heard it said that Western Australia’s isolation disadvantages our writers and artists. Yet there is so much creative talent here that I believe I could spend 2015 reading writers from the West, and still not finish a long list of great books. For now, though, here are five books (and their writers) that I read in 2014 […]
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December 7, 2014
Welcome to Six Degrees of Separation, where authors Emma Chapman and Annabel Smith provide the name of a book and invite us to link it to six other books in any way we choose. This month’s chain begins with The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flannagan, which won the Man Booker prize this year. […]
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