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Joanna Horton at the Smug Fig in Stones Corner, Brisbane. Horton is the author of novels Catching the Light and Between You and Me (Ultimo Press).

Brisbane author Joanna Horton on friendship, desire and the Greens

Horton, partner of Greens MP Max Chandler-Mather, balances activism and motherhood with writing powerful novels about human connection.

  • Nick Dent

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Li’l Petey and Dog Man in the new film of Dav Pilkey’s book, Dog Man.

A tail as old as time: Which are better, dogs or cats?

You might think you know what Dog Man creator Dav Pilkey will say in response. Think again.

  • Michael Idato

You don’t want to think of your doctor as human: Adam Kay

The former doctor turned author (turned humorist) says he “probably” has PTSD after the traumatic event at work that caused him to change professions.

  • John Bailey
WA authors Natasha Lester, Holden Sheppard and Rachael Johns. Pictures: Supplied

‘Holding us hostage’: WA authors’ horror as Meta uses their pirated work

Writers across Perth and Australia are reeling at stolen copies of their books being used without permission or compensation. But can they leave this toxic relationship?

  • Emma Young
There’s a bumper crop of new books this April.

Steve Vizard probes the Gallipoli myth and Brooke Boney gets personal: This month in books

Plenty of new books hit the bookshops today, with more to come later in the month. Here are 15 of them.

  • Jason Steger
Queen Camilla speaks as King Charles looks on during a reception to mark the launch of the Queen’s reading room medal at Clarence House on Tuesday.

‘Naysayers’: Queen claims victory over online reading club with 12 million members

The Queen’s Reading Room started life as a lockdown book list but has evolved to become a registered charity, a popular podcast, an annual festival and more.

  • Victoria Ward
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With The White Lotus, show creator Mike White is using TV the way earlier satirists used the novel.

The books that ate the rich better than The White Lotus

Wealth is one thing, class is another – as these novelists famously understood.

  • David Free
Jane Caro found that confronting the illusion of safety helped her stop fearing danger.

The ordinary moment that changed Jane Caro’s career

Looking the worst-case scenario directly in the eye helped this unlikely anxiety sufferer move on.

  • Kerrie O'Brien
Book lovers may appear to be a united tribe, but our world is full of schisms.

Here’s my dark confession: I scribble in the margins of books

Book lovers may appear to be a united tribe, but our world is full of schisms.

  • Richard Glover
“We’re being treated with cruelty … The fact that someone like me can exist terrifies some people.”

Author Torrey Peters on why her existence ‘terrifies some people’

The prize-winning novelist on the cruelty faced by trans people – and how opponents have used stories of detransitioning to ‘weaponise regret’.

  • Benjamin Law

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