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Literary Legends
Explore the literary histories of Charmian Clift, Shirley Hazzard and Elizabeth Harrower.
Following her biography The Life and Myth of Charmian Clift…
1 year, 7 months ago
SWF Great Debate: Artificial Intelligence is Better Than the Real Thing
Humankind stands at a crossroads: will artificial intelligence make us superhumanly productive, liberating us from life’s most mundane tasks? Or have…
1 year, 7 months ago
Robyn Davidson: Unfinished Woman
Robyn Davidson once described Unfinished Woman as an “infinite book”. “I feel absolutely that I have to write it and absolutely that I can’t write it…
1 year, 7 months ago
The Austen Formula
Some consider Pride and Prejudice the first romantic comedy, with Jane Austen having set the ground rules for others to follow.
Certainly, with its w…
1 year, 7 months ago
David Wengrow: The Dawn of Everything
What kind of world could we create if we stopped believing inequality is the price of progress?
Archaeology professor David Wengrow’s groundbreaking …
1 year, 8 months ago
Your Favourites’ Favourites: Tony Birch and Graham Akhurst
In Your Favourites’ Favourites, our most loved writers introduce one of their favourite authors.
Acclaimed Women & Children author Tony Birch sits do…
1 year, 8 months ago
Hedley Thomas: How to Catch a Killer
If you thought you knew the backstory of The Teacher's Pet, the gripping whodunnit podcast downloaded by over 80 million listeners, think again.
Two-…
1 year, 8 months ago
Bringing the Past to Life
“The past is a foreign country”, L.P. Hartley famously wrote. It is also a place readers can visit via masterful historical fiction.
Be transported b…
1 year, 8 months ago
Fantastical Worlds
Imagine another world with the fantasy writers who are redefining the wildly popular genre.
Australian fantasy heavyweight Garth Nix (The Old Kingdom…
1 year, 9 months ago
Sad Girl? Bad Girl? Mad Girl?
She may be self-absorbed, adrift or unhinged, but the ‘sad girl’ is taking the publishing industry by storm.
Debut novelists Nadine J. Cohen (Everyon…
1 year, 9 months ago