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Fond farewell to a truly unique writer
Tracy Sorensen, who has died at 61, wrote two wildly original novels, including one narrated by a tumour inside a body
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An inmate’s memoir, a stunning debut, and more from literary editor Caroline Overington’s wrap of news from the world of books
Take a tour of the outback to this reimagined sheep station
Arkaba used to be a sheep station. The new owners have turned it into a conservatory, meaning it’s being returned to a place where natural sounds of the Australian bush can thrive.
Trent Dalton’s forthcoming novel is his most personal yet
If this announcement – wait, what, a new Trent Dalton novel?! – seems to have come out of nowhere, it has. Few people knew Trent Dalton was writing another book, and he says it came out of him like a fever breaking.
The woman who took on a prince and a billionaire
Virginia Giuffre advocated for survivors of sex trafficking but childhood trauma took its toll.
Big bickies are at stake in this Instagram food fight
There’s been a caramel slice recipe on the side of the Nestle condensed milk tin for something like 50 years. What makes Nagi’s special?
One-woman wonder at Opera House
Books and plays about female warriors and other news from the book world.
Under-fire baker shows receipts as recipe feud heats up
It’s the monster cookie story consuming the internet: has the nation’s #1 cookbook author taken recipes from others without proper attribution? Now chef Bill Granger’s name has been thrown into the mix.
Hot in the kitchen as celebrity chefs feud over recipe source
It’s the oven-hot kitchen bake-off nobody saw coming: two of Australia’s happiest home cooks are suddenly at war over recipes in their mega-selling cookbooks, with upwards of $30m in sales at risk of going up in smoke.
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