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State Library is a home for readers and writers, literature and storytelling. Want to search the latest issue of a journal or magazine? Desperate to find your next favourite book or essay? Need a podcast to listen to while you write? Here, staff from Stories and Ideas and black&write! share the stories they love each month. You’ll also find our latest interviews with local writers and creatives.
Reading Dirrayawadha: Rise Up by Anita Heiss in the John Oxley Library.
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If you're a bookseller and you think disagreements with customers are new, think again. In this essay for The Conversation, Konstantine Panegyres argues that book stores in ancient Greece and Rome had quite a bit in common with today's shops.
This essay might answer some questions you didn't know you had: How did books come into existence? And how were they written and produced?
(And borrow books about the ancient world with your library card.)
Radcliffe Camera, Oxford, UK, the setting for the His Dark Materials trilogy.
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Did you know beloved UK author Philip Pullman lived in Australia when he was a little boy? Very fond of his time here, he recalls that Australian newsagents sold all the comic books kids wanted at the time – and England didn't.
In this conversation Pullman talks about the His Dark Materials novels, writing as he gets older, and why he meets lots of people named Lyra. Listen here via ABC Radio National.
