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Theory & Practice by Michelle de Kretser review – art v reality

The award-winning Australian’s deconstruction of the novel form is a rich pleasure

The Guardian - UK

Theory & Practice by Michelle de Kretser review – shame, desire and the ghost of Virginia Woolf

A vivid outback tale, an anguished 80s love triangle and real life are cleverly held in play in the Australian novelist’s inventive memoir-novel-essay hybrid

The Guardian - UK

The 25 best Australian books of 2024: Helen Garner, Tim Winton, Nam Le and more

Just in time for your Christmas shopping: Guardian Australia’s critics and staff pick out the best of the best

The Guardian - AU

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Theory & Practice by Michelle de Kretser review – what should a novel look like?

The Miles Franklin winner’s most experimental book yet opens as fiction interrupted by a narrator who starts picking apart her life and feelings about writing

The Guardian - AU

Michelle de Kretser writes back to the ‘Woolfmother’ in Theory & Practice

The narrator of Michelle de Kretser’s seventh novel Theory & Practice is younger than I was when she realises something we all do, eventually: sometimes there can be a great chasm between what we say, write, and purport to know and believe, and what we do.

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'I had a sadomasochistic fascination with English': a vivid, playful debut disrupts clichés of docile Asian womanhood

Many contemporary novels adamantly refuse readers a pleasurable reading experience – with clunky prose and a cloying earnestness. But life’s too short for boring books.

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A touch of hope after the doom? Your guide to the Miles Franklin 2022 shortlist

This year’s Miles Franklin shortlist is lyrical in voice, complex in form, and perhaps a little more hopeful than usual. The threads of shared concern across the volumes leave me wondering whether there is something in the zeitgeist.

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Miles Franklin 2022: shortlist revealed for Australia’s prestigious literary prize

A self-published novel by Michael Winkler joins Alice Pung, Michael Mohammed Ahmad, Michelle de Kretser and Jennifer Down to compete for $60,000

The Guardian - AU

Self published author on prize shortlist

A self published novel been shortlisted for the prestigious Miles Franklin award for the first time.

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Controversies, epiphanies and the case against Canva: highlights from Sydney writers’ festival

Coinciding with the federal election, this year’s festival buzzed with big ideas about politics, hope and writing. Here are 10 things we learned

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