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Wordsmith: David Astle.

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Spoken English isn't always correct in its usage and the consequences of that are not always obvious.

Books That Changed Me

South Coast writer Catherine McKinnon is the author of Storyland, a series of linking novellas from first settlement to ...

Catherine McKinnon loved how David Mitchell told several stories in different genres to create his novel Cloud Atlas.

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John Howard: "...you can hardly justify bonuses when the company got into difficulty so soon... It doesn't pass the pub ...

You can rely on the Australian vernacular to provide all sorts of curly questions about origins and timelines.

Leah Purcell's The Drover's Wife takes out Book of the Year

Leah Purcell's A Drover's Wife has been named Book of the Year in the NSW Premier's Literary Awards.

When the indigenous actress and director, Leah Purcell, took out her mother's tattered copy of Henry Lawson's short stories, she had no idea that the script she would bang out in seven days would be named Book of the Year in the NSW Premier's Literary Awards Monday night.