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Books that changed me: Melissa Ferguson
Octavia Butler's work, and particularly Fledgling, had a profound effect on writer Melissa Ferguson.
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Furious Hours: captivating study of Harper Lee's own true crime investigation
Author Casey Cep's thoroughly researched book is a mystery within a mystery.
- by Alexandra Alter
Sydney Writers' Festival
'Lies' pay off for the Sydney Writers' Festival
The Sydney Writers' Festival recorded ticket sales of more than $1.2 million and its third-highest number of paid attendances in the organisation's history.
- by Linda Morris
Food
Taste test on the must-have food tomes of the moment
Georgie Gordon does the taste test on our pick of the hottest new cookbooks, covering delicious dishes from around the world.
- by Georgie Gordon
Good Weekend
'I will never look at a tree (or a greenie) in the same way'
It may be 512-page read on trees, but Richard Powers' Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Overstory captivated me from the start.
- by Nicole Abadee
Arts
Wordplay: The great semantic spirit
Sprit has been around for yonks, uttered in north-west England. Yet only now is it joining the Shorter Oxford.
- by David Astle
David Malouf
Bookmarks: Why David Malouf could have been a contender
The boxing link between David Malouf and Peter Sellers. How Christian Ryan hit a big six. And when Candice Fox met Bill Clinton and all his security guards.
- by Jason Steger
Review
Fifty years on, the story of a classic, controversial western
W.K. Stratton claims Sam Peckinpah's blood-soaked but beautifully choreographed The Wild Bunch as the greatest western ever made.
- by Tom Ryan
Review
The always surprising brilliance of Guy Rundle
Guy Rundle writes with a kind of vagabond gusto, as this collection of his writing illustrates.
- by Barry Hill
Review
Invented Lives review: Andrea Goldsmith on the importance of the past
The protagonist of Andrea Goldmith's latest novel decides to migrate to Australia after an accidental encounter with a Melburnian on the street in St Petersburg.
- by Louise Swinn
Review
Nora Heysen biography skilfully explores the brilliant painter's complicated life
Former journalist and author Anne-Louise Willoughby has taken on a stubborn and difficult subject.
- by Ruby J. Murray