If You Want a Friend, Get a Dog

In an interview with The Guardian, author Craig Silvey admitted his favourite object is a mandolin – absolutely not to be confused with his passion for the ukulele – and expressed his regret over the lost breakthrough memoir he wrote at the age of 10. With Rick Morton, Silvey explains a writing career that includes a fascination with small Australian towns, the acts of courage that inspire him and why empathy matters.

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Rick Morton is an award-winning journalist and the author of three non-fiction books: One Hundred Years of Dirt, the extended essay On Money, and most recently, My Year of Living Vulnerably.

Craig Silvey is an author whose critically acclaimed debut novel, Rhubarb, was published in 2004. His bestselling novel, Jasper Jones, was released in 2009 and was the 2010 Australian Book Industry Awards Book of the Year. Craig's third novel Honeybee was published in 2019 and won Best Fiction for the Indie Book Awards 2021 and Dymock's Book of the Year 2020. His latest novel, Runt, was published in October 2022.

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