Fremantle Press have re-released Brendan Ritchie’s duology, Carousel and Beyond Carousel with brand-new stunning covers. Now available at all good bookshops. “… rereleased for the post-pandemic reader and poses some big questions about how we cope with social isolation, lockdown, change and adversity.” Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA)
Author: Brendan Ritchie
Brendan Ritchie at Margaret River Readers and Writers Festival: Photos
Margaret River Readers & Writers Festival: We Didn’t Start the Fire!
Friday, May 17, 2:00 – 3:15 Temperatures soaring, natural disasters increasing, sea levels rising, coral reefs dying, the Arctic melting and forests burning. What kind of a future do we have to look forward to and how will the next generation face these challenges? Join host Bianca Breen (YA for WA), students from Margaret River […]
Margaret River Readers & Writers Festival: New Narratives 7: Writing Place in Novels with Brendan Ritchie
Saturday 18 May 2024 – 9.30am – 11.30amBusselton Library 2022 Dorothy Hewett Award winner Brendan Ritchie explores how writers can engage with place and the ideas, characters, and stories that can emerge as a result. Attendees will explore their own unique relationships with place and initiate writing that responds to these locations. This is a […]
Eta Draconis Cover Design Shortlisted in 72nd Australian Book Design Awards
The cover design for Brendan Ritchie’s novel, Eta Draconis, has been shortlisted in the 72nd Australian Book Design Awards 2024. Eta Draconis’ cover was designed by Josh Durham, known as Design by Committee, a graphic designer from Naarm/Melbourne. It’s well deserved, Josh — congratulations! The winners of the Australian Book Design Awards will be announced […]
CBCA 2024 Book of the Year Awards: Eta Draconis
The Children’s Book Council of Australia has announced its 2024 Book of the Year Awards Notables List and Eta Draconis can be found on their Older Readers Notables List – “entries in this category may be fiction, drama or poetry and should be appropriate in style and content for readers in their secondary years of […]
Eta Draconis: Teaching notes are now available
Teaching notes for Eta Draconis are now free to download from UWA Publishing. Teaching notes for Brendan Ritchie’s novel Eta Draconis are now available for free download from UWA Publishing. These teaching notes have been prepared by Melinda Tognini for UWA Publishing and are freely available to assist teachers in the classroom. Please click here to download. If you have any queries or […]
The Newtown Review of Books reviews Eta Draconis
Brendan Ritchie has woven a gripping tale around this journey made by two young women in a time of change and uncertainty. Dr Ann Skea, The Newtown Review of Books Eta Draconis has been reviewed by Dr Ann Skea for The Newtown Review of Books. The Newton Review of Books is an independent site for […]
Australian Book Review: Polycrisis – Coming of age in a collapsing world
J.R. Burgmann has reviewed Brendan Ritchie’s Eta Draconis and Roanna McClelland’s The Comforting Weight of Water for the Australian Book Review as both novels “in different ways [..] attend to the central question: how does one come of age in a collapsing world?” Much like the late Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, Ritchie’s rhythmic text is punctuated quite precisely […]
Author event: Laurie Steed, Michael Trant & Brendan Ritchie
“Join Laurie Steed, Michael Trant and Brendan Ritchie for an author event at the Busselton Library on Monday 4th September. Laurie Steed is a prize-winning novelist and short story writer from Perth, well-known for his novel You Belong Here which was shortlisted for the 2018 Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards. Michael Trant is a WA country […]
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