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2018 Miles Franklin Literary Award shortlist unveiled

This year’s announcement of the shortlist for the prestigious Miles Franklin Literary Award includes two former winners, Kim Scott and Michelle de Kretser, and four other authors, all of whom have received literary...

Australia’s taste for translated literature is getting broader, ...

May 23 - Books, Opinion

With this week’s announcement of the winner of the Man Booker International Prize shortlist, translation again finds itself in the foreground of the literary landscape. This year’s shortlist includes novels transla...

Why treehouses are all the rage in children’s books

April 26 - Books, Opinion

Two of Australia’s most popular children’s storytellers live in a treehouse. It’s a Thirteen-Storey one, at least it started out that way. The storytellers are Terry Denton and Andy Griffiths, responsible for an array of...

Valour and Violets: South Australia in the Great War

April 18 - Books

Close to 35,000 South Australians enlisted for service overseas during the Great War. Around 5500 never came back. Countless more returned with physical and psychological injuries that would affect them for the rest of t...

Look What We Made

April 16 - Books, Creative Industries

Look What We Made is an eclectic collection of maker stories from across Australia, lovingly brought to you by the people behind frankie magazine. Inside you’ll meet hatmakers and brewers, potters and jewellers, plus tex...

Stella Prize 2018 Alexis Wright - photo by © Vincent L Long

Alexis Wright wins 2018 Stella Prize for Tracker

April 13 - Books, Latest News

Alexis Wright has been awarded the 2018 Stella Prize for her remarkable biography of Aboriginal leader, thinker and entrepreneur, Tracker Tilmouth. Tracker is a book uniquely written by weaving and layering first-person ...

Provocative, political, speculative: your guide to the 2018 Stella sho...

April 12 - Books, Opinion

Six years ago, The Stella Prize burst onto the Australian literary scene with an air of urgency. The A$50,000 award was the progeny of the Stella Count – a campaign highlighting the under-representation of women authors ...

Jeremy Stanford: Rapture

March 27 - Books

After the success of his first book, Year of the Queen, Jeremy Stanford is back with his gripping and darkly comic debut novel, Rapture – which explores the fight for the ownership of God, and tries to imagine what...