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When I got my first job in publishing in New York City, the managing editor offered me the following advice about reading the slush pile for potential new acquisitions: “Imagine you acquire the manuscript and publish the book. Now, can you think of five people you would recommend this book…

Treasurer points to lower spending; Israel shows no signs of de-escalation in new wave of strikes

This year's festival has more fiction than politics.

She has sold an estimated 40 million books.

He will talk about his latest novel at the Newcastle Writers Festival event.

In awarding this year’s Archibald Prize to Laura Jones’ portrait of the writer Tim Winton, the Trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales are doing what they do best: catapulting a relatively unknown artist to instant fame and possible fortune.

Decision announced at the Art Gallery of NSW, where all finalists will be exhibited to the public from Saturday

Deserted beaches, untouched coastline and the chance to swim with ‘megafauna’: it’s well worth swapping the Great Barrier Reef for a trip to its less flashy west-coast sister, finds Fiona McIntosh

Many children and young people are anxious about climate change and what it means for their futures.

Thousands of Australian books have been found on a pirated dataset of ebooks, known as Books3, used to train generative AI. Richard Flanagan, Helen Garner, Tim Winton and Tim Flannery are among the leading local authors affected – along, of course, with writers from around the world.

Two new novels explore a city battered by earthquakes and hanging on among "the motley motels and paint-peeled homes"