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The kids are alright: young adult post-disaster novels can teach us ab...

July 2 - Books, Opinion

COVID-19 is changing the way we live. Panic buying, goods shortages, lockdown – these are new experiences for most of us. But it’s standard fare for the protagonists of young adult (YA) post-disaster novels. In Dav...

Katherine Firkin: Sticks and Stones

June 26 - Books

A terrifying, twisting debut from TV news journalist Katherine Firkin. It’s time for a killer to leave his mark in Sticks and Stones. It’s winter in Melbourne and Detective Emmett Corban is starting to regret his p...

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2020 Miles Franklin Literary Award Shortlist Announced

June 19 - Books, Creative Industries, Latest News

The Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund, alongside Perpetual, the trustee of Australia’s most prestigious literary awards, have announced the six talented authors who have been included in the 2020 Miles Franklin Literary A...

Andrew Kwong: One Bright Moon

June 15 - Books

From famine to freedom, how a young boy fled Chairman Mao’s China to a new life in Australia is explored in Andrew Kwong’s One Bright Moon. Andrew Kwong was only seven when he witnessed his first execution. T...

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Cherishing First Nations arts and culture – new fund to support COVID-...

June 10 - Books, Business, Creative Industries, Latest News

The Australia Council for the Arts has announced a new fund of approximately $500,000 to support and invest in First Nations arts and cultural groups experiencing disruption due to the COVID-19 pandemic. First Nations ar...

Book Clubs Hub: Mapping the nation’s book-loving community

June 4 - Books, Creative Industries

For the first time, a national survey of book clubs around Australia is being conducted as part of a wider campaign to celebrate and recognise their value, reach and combined brainpower. The organisers of the annual Clun...

Leila Chalk, Isolation Journal, 2020 (detail)

Australia’s first Isolation Journal from war survivor Leila Chal...

May 8 - Books

Australian lawyer, mum and war survivor Leila Chalk has drawn from her childhood experiences in war-torn Bosnia and her time spent in a detention camp in Northern Croatia to create what might be Australia’s first Isolati...

Tom Keneally: The Dickens Boy

May 2 - Books

In his most familiar terrain, Tom Keneally takes historical figures and events and reimagines them with verve, compassion and humour to give us his latest novel, The Dickens Boy. In the late 1800s, rather than run the ri...

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