‘Fiction – and novels in particular – give me an opportunity for a deep engagement with readers – a chance to explore complex ideas rather than just outline a position and supporting arguments. I find it gratifying that people who (from their profiles) are coming from a very different place philosophically, politically and often religiously, are prepared to go the distance with my books and the ideas embodied in them.
I don’t think that happens so much with shorter opinion pieces or essays in which you’re often preaching to the choir – and perhaps deterring potential readers of the novels.
That said, it can be hard to say no. Mostly, I wish I had.’
– GCS
Essays by Graeme include:
Untitled, in The Hill of Content: 100 years of Books Music and People, A.H. Spencer et al, 2023
Introduction to Rise – an Anthology, Clover Press, 2021.
Gavin, in Animals Make us Human, ed Leah Kaminsky and Meg Kenneally, Penguin Life, 2020.
Rewiring, in Split, ed Lee Kofman, Ventura Press. 2019.
The Chemin Takes us Through Villages that are not on any Tourist Itinerary, The Age / Sydney Morning Herald, 2019
Introduction to Seeds and Skeletons, Xoum, 2016.
