The celebrated author talks about why she stayed in her native Australia, the moment she won the UK’s top non-fiction prize this week and her delight that her diaries are being appreciated as literature
Astringent, unsparing and generous by turns, the Canadian writer’s memoir is as compulsively readable as her best fiction
Reading for both pleasure and betterment endures — even if unquestioning faith in literary canons and critical authority is gone
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst is an entertaining companion on a literary tour of how good writing works (and how bad writing doesn’t)
Helen Garner, Chloe Hooper and Sarah Krasnostein’s unconventional joint account of the ‘beef Wellington’ murder case is also an…
No one’s doing it like the Brits
It may be hard to remember in the depths of winter but this has been a miraculously bright twelve months
