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Sleeper graphic novel wins best book in NSW Premier’s Literary Awards
Safdar Ahmed’s Still Alive: Notes from Australia’s Immigration Detention System, details the psychological toll on refugees inside Australia’s system of mandatory and indefinite detention.
- by Linda Morris
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A touching gesture to the power of empathy
Runaways, a dual narrative memoir, is a good starting point for newcomers to the complexities of feminism and race but offers little to those already deeply immersed.
- by Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen
‘I could no longer even understand the person I was before’: The trip that changed a novelist’s life
Seven years ago, Claire G. Coleman says, her life was irrevocably changed.
- by Claire G. Coleman
Our culture of screaming at each other is making us dumber, crueller and more depressed
Bestselling author Johann Hari says changing your mind isn’t a humiliation - it’s a gift.
- by Johann Hari
The migrant experience - survivor guilt and a variety of humiliations
In her debut collection of essays, Turkish-Australian writer Eda Gunaydin examines the repercussions of starting new lives far from home
- by Declan Fry
Why Australia is on the brink of losing a generation of authors
Prize-winning Australian authors are struggling to make ends meet, and the lack of support available could limit who gets to tell Australian stories.
- by Meg Watson
A writer’s journey both funny and poignant
booker Prize winning author Howard Jacobson’s memoir reveals how he became a writer
- by Louise Adler
Top Australian authors urge readers to put climate first in election vote
Some of Australia’s top novelists including Helen Garner and Di Morrissey are urging voters to put climate first when they go to the polls.
- by Jane Sullivan
The economist who does all the ‘weird’ saving experiments so we don’t have to
The “patron saint of saving”, Jessica Irvine, concedes her budgeting obsession borders on the weird but it’s also an altruistic way of paying her bills.
- by Melanie Kembrey
An intimate and insightful memoir alive with questions
Sian Prior interrogates her intense pull toward motherhood in Childless.
- by Natasha Mitchell
Is there a secret to writing a bestselling book?
No two authors are quite alike and new books by Lee Kofman and The Rosie Project’s Graeme Simsion reveal how different writing advice can be.
- by Jane Sullivan