Who are your favourite authors?

We’re celebrating the joy of reading this month at Gilgandra Shire Library. To start the ball rolling, here is a question for you- who are your favourite authors? We hope to gather a list of Gilgandra’s favourite authors over the next month, and print it in the Gilgandra Weekly early in December. We think it should make interesting reading, and it might prompt us to try a different author or two..

To nominate your favourite authors, simply write their names on a slip of paper and drop it in to the box at the Library, or through the book return chute after hours. Alternatively, you can post your author’s name as a comment on this; our brand new blog. We hope to use this blog to share book reviews and information for book lovers of all ages in Gilgandra.

Speaking of favourite books, one of mine is “The Number 1 Ladies Detective Agency” by Alexander McCall Smith. While fiddling on the internet this week, I noticed that McCall Smith is publishing his newest book “Corduroy Mansions” in daily bites on the Telegraph UK website. I’m a bit late joining the party, because he is already up to Chapter 35. You can read all of the chapters to date, or listen to Andrew Sachs, best known as Manuel in Fawlty Towers, reading the latest chapter of Corduroy Mansions each weekday, or all the chapters so far. You can even make plot suggestions to McCall Smith, and he has responded to many suggestions on the website. One of the people who posted a plot suggestion calls this “Dickens for the digital age”. The link for this website is in our "Book info" links list on the right hand side of this page.