http://hdl.handle.net/10453/19501 2013-05-18T13:04:56Z http://hdl.handle.net/10453/19502 Author Talk 1 Adelaide, Debra The first author talk is presented by Debra Adelaide, author of The Household Guide to Dying, published in 2009. Debra reads a piece of short fiction about reading as an obsession called 'In Bed with Flaubert' and discusses the topic of reading as it relates to her novel. Debra Adelaide is a Sydney-based author. Her recent novel, The Household Guide to Dying, has been a worldwide success, having been published so far in Australia, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Brazil, Spain, Portugal, China, Italy and Poland. In 2009 the novel was longlisted for the prestigious Orange Prize for fiction, along with 19 other novels by women from around the world. In Australia, it was recently shortlisted for the inaugural Randwick Literary Award. 2012-05-08T05:32:07Z