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'Fight Like A Girl' by Clementine Ford is out now through Allen & Unwin.

Top 10 independents

Clementine Ford's arguments about how and why women should fight back at their treatment in society is No. 1 in the independent bookshop charts.

Who is Elena Ferrante? Literary world says NOYB

Salman Rushdie has hit out about the unveiling of Elena Ferrante's identity as 'tawdry'.

The readers of Elena Ferrante are devoted – and fiercely protective – of that anonymous Italian author. That much was clear from the swift and unforgiving backlash after an investigative journalist used financial documents to suggest in an article published on Sunday that Anita Raja, an Italian translator, was behind Ferrante's books.

Television - a new kind of solitude

Shows played at set times, but the thing itself  persisted for as long as it had anything to show.

When television entered our homes, a sweet inattention dawned, where it was enough to witness the world, it didn't have to be understood or questioned.

Bestsellers

Working Class Boy, by Jimmy Barnes.

Jimmy Barnes' account of his journey from Glasgow poverty to Australian stardom with Cold Chisel and beyond is No. 1 on the bestseller lists.

Tim Costello: books that changed me

Tim Costello

Tim Costello has travelled the world for work in poverty and emergency relief and led World Vision in Australia for more than 12 years. His new book is Faith: Embracing Life in All Its Uncertainty (Hardie Grant).