Anna Goldsworthy

The award-winning, much-loved memoir of renowned author and musician Anna Goldsworthy about her first steps towards a life in music. In this remarkable story, Anna Goldsworthy recalls her journey from childhood piano lessons with a local jazz muso to a successful career as a concert pianist. As she discovers passion and ambition, and confronts doubt and disappointment, she learns about...

You are fluid, composed of smoke or air, morphing between ectoplasm and skeleton. It is a dance, a cosmic strip show: a flash of spine, and then a rib cage, clean as a fish. Who is laying these bones down, one by one? Is it me who is making you, or are you making yourself? When Anna Goldsworthy, pianist and...

A charming, sharply observed first novel from one of Australia's best writers. From the bestselling author of Piano Lessons. Sometimes events occur as one might wish but sometimes they do not. So says the ever-practical Ruby, always striving for what is right and proper, from the time we meet her as a striking soldier's fiancée through to the rather less...

On AI, Self and Culture by Anna Goldsworthy Humanity in the age of AI AI may be our most persuasive God yet. At the same time, it forces a confrontation with what it means to be human—bodies, fragility, memory. It raises questions about human connection, leisure and learning. And it brings new existential and ethical risks. In this dazzling essay,...