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Shankari Chandran, Robert Dessaix, Diana Reid and more: Australian books to look forward to in 2025

From enthralling debuts to playful premises and national reckonings, here is a whirlwind tour of what’s to come

The Guardian - AU

Women’s prize for fiction 2024: six expert reviews of the shortlisted books

The Women’s prize for fiction has been championing women writers since it launched in 1996. It is one of the most influential and popular literary prizes in world with writers like Zadie Smith and Andrea Levy, among its past winners.

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Anne Enright, Kate Grenville and Isabella Hammad shortlisted for Women’s prize for fiction

Capturing ‘an enormous breadth of the human experience’, the six shortlisted novels compete for a £30,000 prize to be awarded in June

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‘Six spellbinding and thought-provoking novels’: why we chose the Women’s prize for fiction shortlist

From Sri Lanka to New South Wales and Shanghai, these wide-ranging stories are united by a compelling focus on women’s experience

The Guardian - UK

Anne Enright and Isabella Hammad make the Women’s prize for fiction longlist

Three Irish authors – including Claire Kilroy and Megan Nolan – and Booker-shortlisted Brit Chetna Maroo sit among the 16 nominees, eight of them debut novels

The Guardian - UK

In Restless Dolly Maunder, Kate Grenville recreates the enterprising life of an obscure historical figure

Dolly Maunder, born in 1881, is the sixth of seven children of a sheep-farming family outside Tamworth in northern New South Wales. Their lives are a relentless round of hard work, indoors and out, relieved only a by few brief years at the local one-teacher school.

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Restless Dolly Maunder by Kate Grenville review – an empathetic story of a formidable grandmother

Author turns her novelist’s eye to her own grandmother, a smart and ambitious woman who became distant and demanding after a lifetime of disappointment

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‘Exciting’, ‘bold’, ‘laugh out loud’: the best Australian books out in July

Each month, Guardian Australia editors and critics pick the upcoming titles they have already devoured – or can’t wait to get their hands on

The Guardian - AU

Bluey, bookclubs and bad mothers on Canberra Writers Festival menu

New director Beejay Silcox has taken a broad brush to the political theme.

The Canberra Times

‘A national scandal’: Australian authors take aim at ‘woefully underfunded’ literary sector

Richard Flanagan, Helen Garner and Kate Grenville call for ‘vast inequity’ to be corrected, as planning continues for national cultural policy

The Guardian - AU

I'm a climate scientist and writer: this election is the most important in Australia's history

As a climate scientist, I believe this federal election is the most important in Australia’s history.

The Conversation

Morning mail: Coalition’s $3bn marginal seat spend, Ukraine grain export crisis, plan to ‘electrify everything’

Friday: Coalition promises $3bn for 10 marginal seats. Plus: the search for the perfect picture book of death

The Guardian - AU

Top Australian writers call for climate action to be at the centre of election

Kate Grenville, Helen Garner and Tony Birch join more than 60 authors in new Writers for Climate Action group

The Guardian - AU

Elizabeth Macarthur’s Letters, edited by Kate Grenville review – a fascinating dialogue

Grenville follows up her novel about the Australian settler with a collection of her actual letters, revealing a witty but elusive subject

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'Weaponised irony': after fictionalising Elizabeth Macarthur's life, Kate Grenville edits her letters

Do not believe too quickly!

The Guardian - AU

The best Australian books out in April: what we’re reading this month

At the beginning of each month, Guardian Australia editors and critics pick out the upcoming titles they’ve already devoured – or can’t wait to get their hands on

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