Miles Franklin
Miles Franklin Award makes history with 2025 winner, Siang Lu
The winner of the coveted $60,000 literary prize was blown away to make the longlist. Taking out the award has left him lost for words.
- Kerrie O'Brien
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Thirty books we’ll be talking about for the rest of 2025
Clear your shelves. Here’s the fiction and non-fiction you can look forward to reading for the rest of the year.
- Melanie Kembrey
A controversial artwork, a reckoning and a posthumous release: 12 new books to delve into
The weather may be starting to cool down, but the books are heating up. Here are some of the best being published in March.
- Jason Steger
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Your culture guide for cost-conscious connoisseurs, with a few big-ticket items should you have the chance to splash out.
- Cameron Woodhead
She was told her fiction wasn’t ‘Australian enough’. Then she won the Miles Franklin
Working with a “billable hours” mindset, lawyer, mum of four and author Shankari Chandran weaves sharp social justice critiques through her loving family tales.
- Melanie Kembrey
Alexis Wright wins Stella Prize with ‘perhaps the great Australian novel’
The Indigenous writer has won the $60,000 award for her acclaimed novel, Praiseworthy, making her the first to win the prize twice.
- Jason Steger
Nobel laureates, Pulitzer winners lead Sydney Writers’ Festival line up
More than 35 stars of the international literary scene will feature as part of the 2024 Sydney Writers’ Festival.
- Helen Pitt
Sisters, doubles and the brilliant career of Miles Franklin
Amy Brown’s novel imagines a sister’s view of the Australian author, a riff on her famous novel, and a consideration of writing and reading fiction.
- Jo Case
Whodunnit: Why were novels by a famous Australian author forgotten by history?
Derham Groves was curating an exhibition about Australian crime literature when he stumbled across five books featuring an eccentric amateur sleuth.
- Jewel Topsfield
‘Trojan horse’ novel tackling colonisation and war wins Miles Franklin
Never judge a book by its cover. That’s certainly true about Shankari Chandran’s award-winning novel.
- Jason Steger
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