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Author Elise Esther Hearst for SBC

I stopped crying and wrote a comedy

Her fiance was lying naked on a massage table overseas and her Holocaust-survivor grandma was pushing her to use a pregnancy test. So Elise Esther Hearst got creative.

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Good As Gold by Justin Smith

Crooks, cops, race and greed

Why do Australians elevate the wrong people in our history to “hero” status but forget those who really deserve it? That’s the question posed by a new book about the first Melbourne Cup.

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Bronwyn Hall for The Sunday Book Club

Truly Australian setting for evil

A vet returns to the town where her boyfriend disappeared – and where people think she killed him. It’s “just a story”, but there’s something particularly Australian about it.

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Promo image from Sept 2023 production of The Visitors play, written by Jane Harrison. It is a co-production with Sydney Theatre Company and Moogahlin Performing Arts.

These are not ‘noble savages’

Australians grappling with The Voice have “nothing to lose personally” from a bold decision, says award-winning writer offering a new take on the traumatic start of the colonial era.

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Alexander Dreymon in still from The Last Kingdom. Courtesy Netflix

Blood eagles, beef: eat like a Viking

Make your meal like a Viking execution and learn which food risks flirting with Satan in kooky companion sequel to The Last Kingdom – plus find out what happened after the hit show ended.

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