Geraldine Brooks

The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as…

I mean the beauty of being a writer is it’s not like being a swimmer…

There’s just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little…

September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives…

Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored…

Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Saturday morning…

Sydney in the 1960s wasn’t the exuberant multicultural metropolis it is today. Out in the…

My mother’s family were full-on Irish Catholics – faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly…

You can’t write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind…

I knew I was going to be a journalist when I was eight years old…

The day in 2004 when the radiologist told me I had invasive cancer, I walked…

There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have…