Laura Elizabeth Woollett

Through a series of vignettes, author and bookseller Laura Woollett exposes the lack of transparency, as well as the tensions between building a business and supporting a community, in the publishing industry.

Money is like shit, Richard Flanagan said, before publicly donating his prize money to the Indigenous Literacy Foundation. I like this statement. But I also know Flanagan wasn’t working in a call centre when he made it, was already a Booker Prize winner, probably living somewhere nicer than a unit with black mould and dripping fixtures. Which begs the question: at what point does the smell become offensive?