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Imperfect review: Lee Kofman's examination of bodies and the self
Imperfect is based on interviews and surveys by Lee Kofman, a decade-long investigation driven by her need to better understand her own experience of bodily imperfection.
- by Justine Hyde
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Bookmarks: The worrying trends in YA fiction
The young-adult fiction area is showing worrying signs of decline.
- by Jason Steger
Kill Shot review: Garry Disher's perfectly judged Wyatt thriller
Garry Disher brings us the fifth instalment about the lawless but just career-criminal Wyatt.
- by Sue Turnbull
An Orchestra of Minorities review: Chigozie Obioma novel has Nigeria at its core
Chigozie Obioma's second novel is a great African novel.
- by Sarah Dempster
Australia's Sweetheart review: Michael Adams on the story of Mary Maguire
In the 1930s, Mary Maguire saw her future as a film star, and was urged on by her mother's ambitions for her. Mrs Maguire wanted wealth, fame and social success for her daughters.
- by Brian McFarlane
Beyond Words review: Jacqueline Kent on her brief life with Kenneth Cook
Jacqueline Kent's relationship with Kenneth Cook was passionate but all too brief.
- by Peter Rose
Marlon James: The Booker winner turns to high fantasy in Africa
He's erudite, amiable and fired up by his new novel, Black Leopard Red Wolf, a high fantasy set in an alternative history Central Afrcia many years ago.
- by Adrian McKinty
Turning Pages: The prison writing from Manus that needs to be read
Beyond its power as a piece of sustained reportage, Behrouz Boochani's No Friend But the Mountains is also undeniably a work of literature.
- by Jane Sullivan
How To Be Second Best review: Jessica Dettmann has fun with the rom-com novel
How To Be Second Best is a chatty sort of burlesque on the rom-com with a variety of targets.
- by Cameron Woodhead
Books That Changed Me: Jessica Dettmann
Jessica Dettmann so loved Mary Wesley's Harnessing Peacocks that she stole it from her school library.
Top 10 best-selling biographies
Michelle Obama's autobiography Becoming tops the Australian biography bestsellers chart