Women of Letters

Author: Michaela McGuire

Author: Marieke Hardy

In a world of the short and swift, of texts and Twitter, there's something of special value about a carefully composed letter.

In homage to this most civilised of activities, Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire created the literary afternoons of Women of Letters. Some of Australia's finest dames of stage, screen and page have delivered missives on a series of themes, collected here for the first time. Claudia Karvan sends 'A love letter' to love itself, Helen Garner contacts ghosts of her past in 'The letter I wish I'd written', Noni Hazlehurst dispatches a stinging rebuke 'To my first boss', and Megan Washington pays tribute to her city and community as she writes 'To the best present I ever received'.

And some gentlemen correspondents – including Paul Kelly, Eddie Perfect and Bob Ellis – have been invited to put pen to paper in a letter 'To the woman who changed my life'.

By turns hilarious, moving and outrageous, this is a diverse and captivating tribute to the art of letter writing.

All royalties for this book will go to Edgar's Mission animal rescue shelter.

Also by Michaela McGuire

Book Cover:  Sincerely: Women of Letters 2
Published: 24/10/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780670076710
RRP: $29.99
Book Cover:  Six Women of Letters: Penguin Shorts

In homage to that most civilised of activities, letter writing, Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire created the literary afternoons of Women of Letters. Some of Australia's finest dames of stage, screen and page have delivered missives on a series of themes.

In homage to that most civilised of activities, letter writing, Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire created the literary afternoons of Women of Letters. Some of Australia's finest dames of stage, screen...

Published: 23/04/2012
Format: Digital
ISBN: 9781742535760
Book Cover:  Women of Letters
Published: 28/09/2011
Format: Digital
ISBN: 9781742534329
Published:31/10/2011
Format:Paperback, 420 pages
RRP:$29.95
ISBN-13:9780670076093
ISBN-10:0670076090
Origin:Australia
Publisher:Penguin Aus.
Imprint:Viking

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25 May 2012
Australian Society of Authors 2012 Barbara Jefferis Award - winner

All That I Am by Anna Funder has won the Barbara Jefferis Award.

The award is offered annually for “the best novel written by an Australian author that depicts women and girls in a positive way or otherwise empowers the status of women and girls in society”.

Anna beat fellow Miles Franklin contenders Foal's Bread and Cold Light.

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