Charlotte Wood

Charlotte Wood is editor of The Writer’s Room Interviews magazine and the author of five books. Her last novel, Animal People (2011), was shortlisted for the 2013 Christina Stead Prize for Fiction and longlisted for the 2012 Miles Franklin Award. Her new novel The Natural Way of Things will be published in October 2015.

Works By Charlotte Wood

Reading Isn’t Shopping
Increasingly, I think ‘reader satisfaction’ is code for the smoothing out of lumps and bumps of every kind, in pursuit of a soothing digestibility.
13 Aug. 2018
Across the face of the sun
I still don’t fully understand The Transit of Venus, which I suspect is why I will keep returning to it throughout my life. It has been fascinating to observe, in other writers’ responses, how often they remark on seeing its greatness only on a se...
21 Apr. 2015
‘I have had my vision’
The more I go on, the more I am convinced that a great book is one which leads its readers away from the worn path of what they already know, to a wild and unfamiliar place where new logics and understandings can take hold. But of course there is
16 May. 2014

Charlotte Wood

Works By Charlotte Wood

Reading Isn’t Shopping

Across the face of the sun

‘I have had my vision’

Works Featuring Charlotte Wood

The Ghost Creature: The Weekend by Charlotte Wood

Listen to the Sirens: The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood