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Nobel literature prize will not be awarded this year following sex abuse allegations
The Nobel Prize in literature will not be awarded this year following issues within the ranks of the Swedish Academy that selects the winner.
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Sydney Writers' Festival
The new wave: emerging female writers push the boundaries
There's college student Peach whose stomach is rapidly expanding, primary school best friends Lucy and Francine who experiment sexually together and copywriter Mara who is haunted by memories of her first period while making an advertising campaign for sanitary pads
- by Melanie Kembrey
Nevermoor by debut author Jessica Townsend wins 2018 ABIA Book of the Year
The record-breaking children's fantasy book Nevermoor has won Book of the Year at the Australian Industry
- by Melanie Kembrey
The changing face of crime fiction: From the magnifying glass to the mobile
In crime fiction, as in crime fighting, technology can help or hinder. We have come a long way since Sherlock Holmes first peered through his magnifying glass.
- by Jimmy Thomson
Turning Pages: The writers who had second thoughts about their books
Writers' faith in their own work is a funny, contradictory thing: diamond-hard, and fragile as thistledown. There are many wobbles of faith, but not usually in public.
- by Jane Sullivan
Good Weekend
The great Mother's Day book round-up
From the highbrow to the heartbreaking and humorous – whatever your mum's reading taste, the latest releases deliver page-turning satisfaction.
- by Nicole Abadee
Opinion
China
Peppa Pig should be proud
In more modern times, subversive authors and characters have continued to make their mark.
- by Lucy Mangan
The Wanderers review: Tim Pears' drama in Edwardian rural England
In the summer of 1912, Leo Sercombe is running away from an upper-class estate after a drama involving the aristocrat's daughter Lottie.
- by Kerryn Goldsworthy
You Think It, I'll Say It review: Curtis Sittenfeld's insightful stories
American novelist Curtis Sittenfeld has written her first book of short stories.
- by Kerryn Goldsworthy
Those Other Women review: Nicola Moriarty on mothers and non-mothers
The real battle in this book of friendships betrayed is the conflict between mothers and non-mothers.
- by Kerryn Goldsworthy
West review: Carys Davies' visionary and beautiful fable of discovery
Behind this small novel you can hear the rustling weight of American literature.
- by Kerryn Golsdworthy