7am in 2023: The Literary Scandal

<p>John Hughes was once hailed as a young literary genius, and won a scholarship to Cambridge.</p><p>Yet he found himself back in Australia working as a librarian and a teacher before his writing found an audience.</p><p>Hughes was shortlisted for some of the greatest honours in Australian writing. But under the scrutiny of greater acclaim, a strange web of inconsistencies and copying struck one reader: Anna Verney.</p><p>Today, we’re looking back on this interview between Ruby Jones, Anna Verney and Richard Cooke, on how they first discovered the borrowings of John Hughes an...