South Australian Lisa Cunningham will still face trial over the death of her seven-year-old stepdaughter Sanaa Cunningham, but the prosecution in the US is no longer seeking the death penalty.
Thousands of people will this week converge on Adelaide for the annual writers’ festival. Attendees will be keen to meet the writers, hear their stories, and celebrate in the sunshine. But some people won’t go.
A barrister who represented Palestine in a case against Israel at the International Court of Justice has been invited to the Sydney Writers Festival.
Esteemed Australian businesswoman Kathy Shand has resigned as chair of the high-profile festival telling the board she wanted a variety of opinions on the Middle East conflict, and not a one-sided, anti-Israel show.
Writer Geraldine Brooks was barely into the brutal adjustment of life as a widow after her husband of over three decades died, when she detected the sense she should be ‘over it’.
Retired barrister Tom Kirk KC raises tricky questions about fairness (and even pets) in his new guide to separation and divorce.
Bill Gates’ memoir Source Code delves deeply into his childhood with an undiagnosed gift, as he seeks to explain (and perhaps understand) his own, unique operating system.
Michael Leunig, the gentle Melbourne cartoonist, a beautiful soul, a gentleman with soft grey curls who understood, in his bones, that life is short, and often disappointing, has died.
Children are spending far too much time on mesmerizing, addictive screens. There are still a few shopping days before Christmas, so why not hit the bookshop?
The Tomorrow, When the War Began author paved the way for more recent fantasy blockbusters, such as The Hunger Games.
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