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Duchess of York could be looking at right royal payday
Sarah Ferguson has chosen a lucrative market for her fiction debut.
- by Marianka Swain
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Literature
Questions of privilege, mythology and identity
Aaron Smith mines his experience as a journalist in the Torres Strait Islands in his memoir.
- by Declan Fry
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Literature
Fiction: There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job and three more titles
Kikuko Tsumura's novel about one woman's experiences in the world of work is quietly funny.
- by Kerryn Goldsworthy
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Literature
In the spying game, who do we read after John le Carre?
The creator of George Smiley has gone, but it's not the end of the espionage novel, far from it.
- by Jane Sullivan
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Literature
Non-fiction: On Connection by Kae Tempest and three other titles
Kae Tempest's thoughtful essay examines creativity as an electrical current.
- by Fiona Capp
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Literature
Why we're animal crackers – and what we can do to save them
Some of the close encounters with Australian fauna captured in this collection can be fleeting but life-defining.
- by Natasha Mitchell
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Literature
The polished gems from Shirley Hazzard's trove of sparkling stories
The New York-based Australian writer's complete short fiction reveals her intellectual confidence and stylistic control.
- by Susan Wyndham
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Literature
A treasury of wise observation and important questions
Don Watson's collected writing is a remarkable anthology of witty, cultured eclecticism
- by Jonathan Green
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Stanley Kubrick
Eyes wide open at Stanley Kubrick, a giant of the cinema
A new look at the life and work of the great film director indulges in too much pop psychology.
- by Tom Ryan
From the Archives, 1951: Power Without Glory libel case
On this day seventy years ago author Frank Hardy was in Melbourne's City Court charged with the criminal libel of Ellen Wren, allegedly "Nellie West" in his 1950 novel Power Without Glory. Ellen was the wife of prominent and controversial Melbourne Catholic businessman John Wren, whose empire and perceived influence on Labor was the barely disguised subject of the novel. Hardy faced 26 years' jail. The trial lasted nine months. Hardy was acquitted on June 19, 1951.
- by Staff writer
Sally Rooney to publish new novel in September
The acclaimed Irish writer Sally Rooney is continuing her run of catchy titles and stories of young people negotiating their perplexing lives.
- by Jason Steger