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Molly the Weet-Bix pig drives Indigenous reading campaign
Move over Peppa Pig. A Weet-Bix devouring pig is the star of a new book written in the Kriol language of northern Australia.
- by Linda Morris
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Books That Changed Me: Jessie Cole
Reading Tara June Winch's Swallow the Air gave Jessie Cole the courage to explore her own story.
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Melbourne Writers Festival takes a new tack
Hits, misses and fake funerals were all part of first-time director Marieke Hardy's Melbourne Writers Festival.
- by John Bailey
Books that changed me: Benjamin Stevenson
Peter Temple's The Broken Shore showed Benjamin Stevenson what great fiction was all about.
The slow move for diversity in romance
Romance novels released by big publishing houses tend to centre on white characters, and rarely feature gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender people in leading roles, or heroines with disabilities.
- by Alexandra Alter
Beyond the Garden Gate tops the gardening bestsellers list
Beyond the Garden Gate tops the Gardening bestsellers list
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Two of us with literary couple Tracy Chevalier and Jonathan Drori
They're a delightfully nerdy couple: the author of Girl With a Pearl Earring and the science writer whose latest book explores our relationship with trees.
- by Jane Cornwell
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Author Sisonke Msimang talks bodies, sex and religion
The writer who was born to freedom-fighter parents discusses the subjects we're told to keep private.
- by Benjamin Law
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Yes, crime does pay, just ask Christian White and his Nowhere Child
This Victorian novelist's success – a six-figure, two-book deal – is just the beginning. And now it's time to party.
- by Greg Callaghan
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Less is more: Andrew Sean Greer's prize a big win for queer literature
Not since 1978's Tales of the City have books by queer authors received much critical attention. But this Pulitzer-winning novel looks to a brighter future.
- by Stephen A. Russell
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Australia's new climate of fear
Australia’s rural landscape is terrifying readers around the world – a sub-genre warranting its own moniker, outback noir.
- by Linda Morris