Siang Lu set his Miles Franklin award-winning novel in China’s creepy ghost cities. His win reflects an ongoing evolution for the Miles Franklin, which was once for books set only, or at least mainly, in Australia.
Former diplomat Sam Guthrie is determined to shift the focus of espionage fiction from Europe to Asia.
An update to the Oxford English Dictionary suggests the English think we’re all a bunch of booze-drinking, footy obsessives Down Under.
Judy Davis returns to the stage for the Belvoir’s adaptation of Helen Garner’s The Spare Room, and other news from the book world
Helen Trinca’s new book about Elizabeth Harrower; the Peter Blazey fellowship opens, and other news from the book world
Nobel laureate for literature JM Coetzee has been described as reclusive. Friends say it isn’t so; in person, he’s kind, and interested, but shy.
News from the book world from literary editor Caroline Overington.
Tracy Sorensen, who has died at 61, wrote two wildly original novels, including one narrated by a tumour inside a body
An inmate’s memoir, a stunning debut, and more from literary editor Caroline Overington’s wrap of news from the world of books
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.
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