Champagne and Socks

The Guardian First Book Long List

Margo Lanagan on what sparked her story The Goosle

Drive by of Jodi Cleghorn – this year’s winner of the Kris Hembry Encouragement Award

The 100 Most Sought After Out of Print Books – number 50 is a big deal knitting one (that I’d kinda thought I’d look for myself) I count 17 or thereabouts by women but notably the top 2 are women.

Is it OK to run an Illegal Library from My Locker at School? - is that a couple of books by Garth Nix on that list?

A brief public service message from N K Jemisin – I’ll summarise. Diversity means actual diversity and not just asking the same person over and again to tick off that representative box on your list. Go actually research who is out there and then go look for them. That’s half the fun.

The bacterium responsible for the Black Death was once a mild stomach bug – not an actual publishing link but come on! Holy freaking Batman!

TIME’s All Time 100 Best Novels

The Ned Kelly Winners for this year.