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I can always rely on the ocean
Kathryn Heyman writes in The Weekend Australian about the ocean. But it’s really about the slow process of letting go, as a parent. And possibly as a person. ‘I can always rely on the ocean.‘
Katherine Heyman shares her inspirations and reveals the works on her ‘top shelf’. listen to the podcast … Continue Reading
The Copyright Agency has named multi award-winning author Kathryn Heyman as its 2017 Author Fellow to develop her forthcoming memoir Words to Live By. “The $80,000 Author Fellowship for mid-to-late career authors is Australia’s richest fellowship for writers, providing crucial financial support for the development of a new work,” Copyright Agency CEO, Adam Suckling, says.… Continue Reading
Anna MacDonald reviewed Storm and Grace in the Australian Book Review, writing: “Like Charlotte Wood’s The Natural Way of Things (2015), it is an indictment of the complicity of the media and other forms of representation – film, chick lit, ‘[a]ll that Fifty Shades shit’ – in setting standards of women’s behaviour, especially as it… Continue Reading
Australian writer Kathryn Heyman speaks to ABC’s Radio National Books and Arts Daily Kate Evans about her latest novel, Storm & Grace and the forces that helped create it. read more… Continue Reading
“Publisher Allen & Unwin has tagged Kathryn Heyman’s latest book a “literary thriller” but don’t expect a genre-bound police procedural. Heyman’s serious literary ability takes precedence in this story about male power and violence set in the curious world of free-diving… Heyman drives an utterly compelling narrative towards a shocking ending.” read it here …… Continue Reading
“Many other stories live in the subcutaneous levels of Storm and Grace, Kathryn Heyman’s ominous, luminous sixth novel…. Right now, we need a better understanding of the narrative of abuse – how it can start and how it continues, as well as the headlines we see all too often telling us how it ends. In… Continue Reading
Kathryn writes in Good Weekend about the dangers of ’empty charm’ and why she keeps her father’s stockwhip – it reminds her of the life her childhood had picked for her – before her choices became her own. read more… Continue Reading
Australian writer Kathryn Heyman speaks to ABC’s Nightlife presenter, Sarah Macdonald about her latest novel, Storm & Grace, a story about losing yourself, being reckless and free in the sea. Warning: this book may lead to free diving. read more… Continue Reading
When I was eight or nine, we took a trip to the NSW north coast, my only experience of a family holiday. My mother, a single parent, working shifts as an enrolled nurse, frequently exhausted, had little time or money. But this was special: a return to Nimbin, to her childhood roots. A road trip… Continue Reading