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Finished watching My Brilliant Career on Netflix? Stream this 'wild' and 'bonkers' period drama on Prime Video next — it's an even better double bill than Bridgerton

I know what you're thinking — it would be so easy to stream Bridgerton straight after the new Netflix period drama My Brilliant Career. But if you have a Prime Video subscription, try something different instead.

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My Brilliant Career has cured my period drama-hating past by being the best TV show I've seen on Netflix this year — but don't expect it to be a Bridgerton bonkbuster

The best love is the one that comes from nowhere, and I've fallen head over heels for new Netflix series My Brilliant Career — and it wasn't even on my radar for 2026.

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My Brilliant Career: Real influences behind the Netflix reimagining of a feminist classic

The series is an unmissable take on Miles Franklin's novel that perfectly captures the plight of Australian women at the turn of the 20th century

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My Brilliant Career review – Netflix’s take on this Australian classic is sassy and steamy – but a tad syrupy

Philippa Northeast is entertaining as Sybylla Melvyn in this adaptation of Miles Franklin’s 1901 novel that has more erotica and a more pronounced love triangle

The Guardian - AU

Love across racial boundaries: the true history behind Netflix’s My Brilliant Career

Chinese Australian actor Christopher Chung takes on a lead romantic role in the new Netflix adaptation of Miles Franklin’s classic 1901 Australian novel, My Brilliant Career.

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Since when was reading a niche activity?

Our attention spans are under attack.

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My Brilliant Career: inside Netflix’s horny, ‘bonkers’ take on an Australian classic the world is about to love

Starring Philippa Northeast and an extremely buff Christopher Chung, Miles Franklin’s 1901 novel has been adapted into a spirited series ‘unashamedly intended for women’

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Omar Musa wins Miles Franklin literary award for ‘tour de force’ novel Fierceland

The novelist, poet and rapper won $60,000 for his novel about two siblings who reckon with the legacy of their late father, a palm oil baron in Malaysian Borneo

The Guardian - AU

‘Grand and intimate’: Miles Franklin shortlisted novels grapple with profound questions of our time

Six writers in running for $60,000 prize, including first-time nominees Randa Abdel-Fattah, Steve MinOn, Konrad Muller and Sean Wilson

The Guardian - AU

Capture by Amanda Lohrey review – a superb novel about a study of alien abductees

The Miles Franklin winner’s plot teeters on the edge of profound silliness, but it’s also a vehicle for making meaning of our lived experiences – and those of others

The Guardian - AU

Randa Abdel-Fattah among authors on Miles Franklin list

The longlist for the Miles Franklin Literary Award includes a book by a Palestinian-Australian author, who has been embroiled in free speech controversies.

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Best Australian books out in May: Robert Forster’s crime caper, a ‘superb’ new novel and Periodic Bitch

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

The Guardian - AU

In Journey to the End of Time, Alex Miller contemplates the mysterious gift of story

Alex Miller is one of Australia’s most distinguished writers. He is the author of 14 novels and the winner of many literary prizes, including two Miles Franklin awards and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, though he has never gained the high public profile of, for example, Tom Keneally or Kate Grenville.

The Conversation

Samsung’s most cohesive Unpacked in years sets the stage for the Galaxy S26. Less filler, more focus.

Samsung’s latest Unpacked event felt tighter, more confident, and far more focused than in recent years. It gave way to let the Galaxy S26 lineup shine in a meaningful way.

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Publishing tips, poetry and witty takes on classics: 6 of the best Australian literary podcasts

The events where Australian readers have long gathered to hear writers speak about their work are often annual (like festivals) and mostly in the big cities. As podcasts have become a way Australians consume culture, literary conversation has migrated to a more accessible space: the commute, the dog walk, the…

The Guardian - AU

With The Rainbow Serpent, Dick Roughsey shared the spirit of our country. His work is a gift to us all

Miles Franklin-winner Alexis Wright pays tribute to the first book that visualised this powerful ancestral being from an Indigenous imagination

The Guardian - AU

Fearless, feminist, five-star fun – and finally touring: My Brilliant Career the musical is back on stage

The team behind the acclaimed show explain how they transformed Stella Miles Franklin’s 1901 novel into a modern musical that spans pub rock to bush folk

The Conversation

Writers Victoria has been defunded – but writers’ centres are ‘fundamental’ to literary culture

Writers Victoria, one of a national network of centres providing crucial support and employment to writers, has lost its funding – putting its “very survival” at risk. Its loss would make Victoria (whose capital, Melbourne, is a UNESCO City of Literature) the only mainland state without a state government-funded peak…

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The ABC’s Top 100 books poll lacks diversity. Here are my 10 First Nations ‘books of the 21st century’

More than 280,000 people have voted for the Top 100 Books of the 21st Century in a Radio National poll, with Trent Dalton’s Boy Swallows Universe taking the top spot. The vote considered books by Australian and overseas authors (fiction and non-fiction), with four of the top 10 and 26…

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Creative types say give us a tax break, for art's sake

Tax breaks on concert tickets and subsidies for printing books in Australia are among suggestions to lift the struggling arts sector from the fiscal doldrums.

The Guardian - AU

Siang Lu wins Miles Franklin award for Ghost Cities, ‘a genuine landmark in Australian literature’

Author, who takes home $60,000, says finding out he won Australia’s most esteemed literary prize left him ‘in such shock that I lost all feeling in my hands and legs’

The Guardian - AU

‘I’m so humbled’: western Sydney’s Winnie Dunn up for $60,000 Miles Franklin literary award for debut novel

Dunn, the first Tongan novelist published in Australia, is up against two-time winner Michelle de Kretser, who just won the Stella prize

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Netflix makes major Career move for classic Aussie tale

Netflix is filming a TV series based on Miles Franklin's novel My Brilliant Career, creating hundreds of jobs and injecting millions into the economy.

The Guardian - AU

My Brilliant Career: Netflix announces adaptation of Miles Franklin’s classic novel

Australian actor Philippa Northeast will play Sybylla, alongside Slow Horses’ Christopher Chung, Andor’s Genevieve O’Reilly and British actor Anna Chancellor

The Guardian - AU

Michelle de Kretser wins Stella prize for book that ‘expands our notions of what a novel can be’

The two-time Miles Franklin winner adds the $60,000 prize for women and nonbinary writers to her accolades, for a novel that troubles the line between fiction and memoir

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