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How social media changed Jacqueline Wilson's approach
There's a reason Jacqueline Wilson has taken to writing historical novels for her young readers.
- by Neil Armstrong
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Literature
Books that changed me: Maya Linnell
Maya Linnell was floored as a teenager by My Friend Flicka.
Meryl Streep
'It gave me goosebumps': Big Little Lies author welcomes Meryl Streep to season two
The success of bestselling author Liane Moriarty's Big Little Lies has seen all ten of her novels optioned for screen.
- by Broede Carmody
Good Weekend
Listen: Move over Barack – it's Michelle's time to shine
America's former first lady seemed a little lacking in warmth and charisma – until I heard her tell her story.
- by Amanda Hooton
Literature
Wordplay: Skating on thinning ice with the new world vocabulary
From Pleistocene to Plasticene, our language is struggling to get with the times.
- by David Astle
Literature
Dominic Smith turns focus on the silent film era in The Electric Hotel
The Australian American's last novel, The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, was a huge success.
- by Melanie Kembrey
Netflix
Netflix to adapt bestselling Aussie children's book Thelma the Unicorn
Author Aaron Blabey says the past few months had been a "lot to absorb".
- by Broede Carmody
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Literature
Bookmarks: Keneally with a song in his heart
Tom Keneally gets another award for Schindler and the rest.
- by Jason Steger
Review
The lessons to learn today from a hippopotamus in the 19th century
If we are to understand animals’ lives in any meaningful way, we must learn to understand animals as more than mere things whose chief interest lies in what they represent or tell us about ourselves.
- by James Bradley
Review
Bret Easton Ellis steps into the world of non-fiction
You need to be cautious with Bret Easton Ellis' White as he has always blurred the line between fiction and non-fiction.
- by Justine Ettler
Review
Chris Womersley: Australia, but not as you know it
The writer's first collection of short stories is shaded with the macabre, and a good dose of absurdist humour.
- by Justine Hyde