Caroline Overington

Caroline Overington has twice won Australia’s most prestigious award for journalism, the Walkley Award for Investigative Journalism; she has also won the Sir Keith Murdoch award for Journalistic Excellence; and the richest prize for business writing, the Blake Dawson Prize. She writes thrillers for HarperCollins, and she’s the author of Last Woman Hanged, which won the Davitt Award for True Crime Writing.

Caroline Overington

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Kylie Mirmohamadi, author of Diving, Falling

Come Writers & Critics

A stellar debut, a late-in-life romance, a no-nonsense cookbook and plenty more in this week’s wrap of news from the book world.

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Russian-American journalist Masha Gessen, the winner of the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thinking 2023, is attending a public debate at the Heinrich Boell Stiftung in Berlin, Germany, on December 18, 2023. (Photo by Emmanuele Contini/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Kremlin blamed for Aussie visa delay

Writer Masha Gessen, who in July was sentenced, in absentia, to eight years in a Russian jail after accusing Russian forces of war crimes, has been unable to board a plane to Australia to speak at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas.

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Rebecca Lim has been shortlisted for a Prime Minister's Literary Award

Prime Minister’s Literary Awards shortlist announced

Books about famine, starvation, sex, graft and politics make the shortlists for the 2024 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards.

JOURNEYSThe Weekend Australian Magazine

EMBARGO FOR TWAM 27 JULY 2024. FEE MAY APPLY.Laphroaig Distillery in Scotland. Photo: Supplied

Having a dram good time on the Isle of Islay

This remote location in Scotland’s inner Hebrides offers visitors the chance to fulfil a pilgrimage to the home of Laphroaig on one of the world’s best distillery tours. Just don’t forget your coat.

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The lovely Claire Sutherland, author of The Crag

Writers won, and sadly lost

Alexis Wright, Charlotte Wood, the death of Ray Lawler, and more in our weekly wrap of the book world.

60th anniversaryNation

Pamela a one-in-60-year find thanks to fate and family

Pamela Pardoe can barely remember posing for an unforgettable image that 60 years later ended up on the cover of The Weekend Australian Magazine.

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Author Alexis Wright poses for a photo at the 2024 Miles Franklin Literary Award announcement in Sydney, Thursday, August 1, 2024. The winner of the prestigious Miles Franklin award for literature will receive $60,000. (AAP Image/Steve Markham) NO ARCHIVING

Alexis Wright wins the Miles Franklin Literary Award, again

Alexis Wright has now won both the Miles Franklin Literary Award, and the Stella Prize, both of which are named for Stella Miles Franklin, twice.

Come Writers & CriticsReview

The Australian Fiction Prize: your questions

The Australian Fiction Prize: your questions answered. Plus, Jewish book week, and a famous son returns to Sydney

The Australian Fiction PrizeReview

The Australian Fiction Prize announcers - CEO of HarperCollins Australia and New Zealand, Jim Demetriou, (L-R) Publishers Anna Valdinger, Catherine Milne and The Australian Journalist Caroline Overington. Jane Dempster/The Australian.

How to enter The Australian Fiction Prize

The Australian Fiction Prize, sponsored by HarperCollins, is the newest, most exciting prize on the literary calendar

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What to read this week

A bunny, a puppy, and an office printer feature in our list of Notable Books to read this week.

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