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Onion Origins - SF
In celebration of our 25th anniversary of children's publishing we are delighted to present the inaugural edition of Onion Origins.The Job Interview A two-storey terrace house,narrow timber...
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Woe! Woe! Woe!
We must interrupt our Onion Origin stories for the saddest (and rarest) of occasions: an Onion Departure.Bruno Herfst, our beloved Tall Designer, is leaving us. We are heartbroken. Which is confusing...
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Onion Origins - EM
In celebration of our 25th anniversary of children's publishing we are delighted to present the second edition of Onion Origins.Once upon a bookstore (in Oxford)…I had finished four years of a science...
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Onion Origins - HR
In celebration of our 25th anniversary of children's publishing we are delighted to present the third edition of Onion Origins.A Series of Fortunate EventsIn 2006 I enrolled in the Professional Writing...
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Onion Origins - ALG
In celebration of our 25th anniversary of children's publishing we are delighted to present the fourth edition of Onion Origins.So, tell us a little about yourself...I didn't believe my mother when she...
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Onion Origins - KR
In celebration of our 25th anniversary of children's publishing we are delighted to present the fifth edition of Onion Origins - this one's from an Onion in our Sydney office.A very sensible plan...I...
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Onion Origins - EW
In celebration of our 25th anniversary of children's publishing we are delighted to present the sixth edition of Onion Origins.When the time is right...I almost came to Allen & Unwin four years...
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Onion Origins - CS
In celebration of our 25th anniversary of children's publishing we are delighted to present the seventh edition of Onion Origins - from another Onion in our Sydney office.Finding my calling...I left...
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And then there was cake...
We have an announcement. A very important announcement.We have a new cake-maker in the House! Yes, it's true. A new cake-maker. And she has certainly wowed us with her cake-making.Herewith an...
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The Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellowship
Dear Readers,We have news. Very exciting news!On Saturday, at the Sydney Writers' Festival the recipient of the 2013/2014 Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellowship was announced.And we are thrilled to bits...
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Onion Origins - JW
In celebration of our 25th anniversary of children's publishing we are delighted to present the eighth edition of Onion Origins.Door-to-door to THE door.I was a sporty, bookish kind of girl, and at the...
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Onion Origins - LW
In celebration of our 25th anniversary of children's publishing we are delighted to present the ninth edition of Onion Origins.A happy surpriseWhen I was at school I loved to read, liked writing and...
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Onion Origins - AMcF
In celebration of our 25th anniversary of children's publishing we are delighted to present the tenth edition of Onion Origins.Impossible possibilitiesI find it hard, almost impossible, to explain how...
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Onion Origins - SB
In celebration of our 25th anniversary of children's publishing we are delighted to present the eleventh edition of Onion Origins.Offering a bribe...In December 1994 - so long ago! - I went to a Little...
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Onion Origins - LB
In celebration of our 25th anniversary of children's publishing we are delighted to present the twelfth edition of Onion Origins - our Fearless Leader in the Mothership.An 8-month maternity-leave...
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Breaking news!
We don't have a town cryer, or a gilt easel, but we have news. Hear ye.... Hear ye...A BABY! Not the royal one. Well, she's Fitzroyalty*, but not the other, more British, more expensive, more...
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It's not all sunshine and roses over here
To be sung, mournfully, to the tune of Red River Valley...From this office they say you are going.We will miss your dry wit and great style.For from us you are taking the sunshine, that has brightened...
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A Cake for All Seasons
On Sunday at the Little Bookroom in Carlton, Ann James launched Kirsty Murray's enchanting time-slip novel The Four Seasons of Lucy McKenzie out into the world. It was a lovely celebration; there was...
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Just So Stories
For our 25th anniversary we've been sharing the Origin stories of the Onions. We walked a lot of different paths to the House of Onion, some smooth, some thorny and some with a higher-than-expected...
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How the Tashi Got His Tale
Before the Chapter Books and the Bind Ups and the Box Sets, O my Best Beloved, came the Time of the Very Beginnings.When an author brings a work to us they often imagine it in a particular shape or...
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How the Whirlpool Got Its Spin
In the High and Far-Off Times, O Best Beloved, the Publisher had no stories. But she had a friend, a Literary Agent. And so that was all right, Best Beloved. Do you see?Sometimes, publishing is like...
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How the Guinea Pigs got their Mystery
This, O my Best Beloved, is a story - a new and a wonderful story - a story quite different from the other stories - a story of co-operation.We tend to think of book-writing as a solo occupation. One...
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Friday Stuff and items
1) Remember how this happened?And then this happened?Well, now this has happened ...We should just institute a uniform and be done with it. Now... I wonder what that should look like...?2) Neil Gaiman...
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So it seems we are not the only workplace at which colleagues adopt similar sartorial sensibilities.The good folk at I Like Looking Like Other People - who are in the business of celebrating that...
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There's a sad sort of clangingFrom the clock in the hallAnd the bells in the steeple, tooAnd up in the nurseryAn absurd little birdIs popping out to say coo-coo(Coo-coo, coo-coo)So here we are, not...
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