Readers are spoilt for choice: bookshops are overflowing with the great, the good (and the rest), and it could not be harder to choose what to read next.
Let Debut Mondays be your guide to the best of new local writing. Come and have a glass of wine and discover the best new writers around.
This month we welcome:
Michelle Aung Thin, The Monsoon Bride
Raeden Richardson, ‘Clay’, Voiceworks
Sharell Cook, Henna for the Broken-Hearted
Irma Gold, Two Steps Forward
Featuring
Raeden Richardson
Raeden Richardson was raised in Melbourne and graduated from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His work has been supported by the Australia Council for the Arts, the Ian Potter Cultural Trust and the American Australian Association ...
Michelle Aung Thin
Dr Michelle Aung Thin was born in Rangoon, Burma (now known as Yangon and Myanmar respectively) and grew up in Ottawa, Canada. A novelist and essayist, she is the author of The Monsoon Bride, (Text 2011) and ...
Sharell Cook
Sharell Cook is a travel writer and author. Her first book, Henna for the Broken-Hearted, has just been published by Pan Macmillan.
Sharell was born and brought up in country Victoria. She studied business and worked for ten years in Melbourne, in the accounting and finance sector of the Victorian government. Then India called. Sharell now writes on travel in India for a New York Times company. She maintains a popular blog on her life in India called Diary of a White Indian Housewife. Sharell lives in Mumbai, India, with her husband.
Irma Gold
Irma Gold is a writer and editor based in Canberra.
Irma is the author of two children’s books and has been published widely in Australian literary journals. Two Steps Forward is her debut collection of stories.