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Australian author Mitch Jennings in 2024. , Photo: Sylvia Liber,
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‘Taboo topic’ drove me to booze

Devastating loss in an area few people understand or talk about led Mitch Jennings to the realisation that people don’t always respond to life’s challenges the way we might hope.

Pedro Pascal in The Last Of Us
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One question: What would you do?

There’s a secret to creating plots that stand out in a world of high-octane drama and competing streaming services. It comes down to one key question, reveals Linwood Barclay.

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Bronwyn Hall for The Sunday Book Club

Truly Australian setting for evil

A vet returns to the town where her boyfriend disappeared – and where people think she killed him. It’s “just a story”, but there’s something particularly Australian about it.

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Promo image from Sept 2023 production of The Visitors play, written by Jane Harrison. It is a co-production with Sydney Theatre Company and Moogahlin Performing Arts.

These are not ‘noble savages’

Australians grappling with The Voice have “nothing to lose personally” from a bold decision, says award-winning writer offering a new take on the traumatic start of the colonial era.

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Alexander Dreymon in still from The Last Kingdom. Courtesy Netflix

Blood eagles, beef: eat like a Viking

Make your meal like a Viking execution and learn which food risks flirting with Satan in kooky companion sequel to The Last Kingdom – plus find out what happened after the hit show ended.

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Trent Dalton in Brisbane, the setting for his new novel Lola In The Mirror, out Oct 2023. Its lead character is a homeless teen, living on the streets. PIc: David Kelly

Wake up and look past the Olympics

Yes, we’ve snagged the Olympics – but furious Trent Dalton says Australians first need to fix a growing crisis on our streets “while we’re talking about how great we are”.

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Twenty-two years ago, few had heard of Lynette Dawson, the mother-of-two who disappeared without a trace from Sydney’s northern beaches in January 1982.

New details on Dawson saga

It was the cold case that gripped Australia – and the world. Now a new book will shed more light on the investigation into Chris Dawson’s murder of his wife Lynette.

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