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Though rarely heretical, Richard Flanagan’s essays have a ferocious moral force

Richard Flanagan’s latest book Heresies is a collection of 24 occasional pieces published between 2009 and 2025. They cover a range of topics dear to the author’s heart but also display the deep thinking and reading of one of Australia’s leading writers.

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We know how to mourn other humans – but what about ecological grief?

In Iceland, people commemorated its first glacier formally declared lost to climate change. Western culture needs more of these rituals

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Helen Garner’s diaries win 2025 Baillie Gifford prize for nonfiction

Tracing the author’s life from bohemian Melbourne in the 70s to the breakdown of her marriage in the 90s, How to End a Story was praised by judges for ‘taking the diary form to new heights’

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'Yes or no?': stadium rallies before crucial vote

Thousands of people are expected to flock to opposing stadium rallies before a do-or-die vote in parliament on the project's future.

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AFL stadium opponents tip 'bitter chapter' ahead

The independent MPs who will decide the fate of the Hobart waterfront stadium say they are aware of the "generationally" significant call they will soon make.

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‘Horny wolves, eunuchs and pirates’ among Baillie Gifford prize shortlist subjects

Helen Garner and Richard Holmes among authors of nonfiction books that also encompass international terrorists and ‘ghastly literary men’

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Australia’s quietest cockatoo is running out of trees. We have betrayed its gentle curiosity

As logging, fire and shrinking habitat push the glossy black cockatoo closer to the brink, we don’t just risk losing a species, but a world of wonder

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‘Alien is a warning, isn’t it?’: Essie Davis on Alien: Earth and Tasmania’s ecological crisis

The Babadook and Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries star plays a corporate scientist pushing the limits of human survival in the new series Alien: Earth

The Guardian - AU

The Productivity Commission is floating AI copyright exemptions – with worrying implications for Australian authors and publishers

In an interim report released overnight, Harnessing data and digital technology, the Productivity Commission has floated a text and data mining exception for the Australian Copyright Act.

The Conversation

The Narrow Road to the Deep North on BBC One review: give this show all the awards

4/5 This adaptation of Richard Flanagan’s book is a deep and thoughtful examination of what war does to the psyche - complete with excellent performances from Jacob Elordi and Ciarán Hinds

Evening Standard

The Narrow Road to the Deep North: what's true and what's false?

It was also called the ‘railway of death’

Evening Standard

The Narrow Road to the Deep North: where to watch Jacob Elordi’s epic war series

It’s already been getting glowing reviews

Evening Standard

Richard Flanagan: ‘When I reread Evelyn Waugh’s Scoop it had corked badly’

The Booker-winning author on taking inspiration from Kafka, and a youthful passion for Jackie Collins

The Guardian - UK

Question 7 by Richard Flanagan audiobook review – a bold memoir of life and near-death

History and autobiography are brilliantly intertwined as the Booker-winning author explores the choices and chance connections that shape our existence

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The Narrow Road to the Deep North review – Jacob Elordi’s fine turn in complex, confronting war drama

Justin Kurzel’s adaptation of Richard Flanagan’s novel eschews battleground spectacle for a rich meditation on trauma that unfolds in three timelines

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How to watch 'The Narrow Road to the Deep North' online – stream Richard Flanagan saga from anywhere now – U.K. release date revealed

World War 2 miniseries based on Booker-winning novel of same name. Here's how to watch "The Narrow Road to the Deep North" online, on TV and from anywhere in the world.

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Contemporary television is rarely as good as The Narrow Road to the Deep North

The Narrow Road to the Deep North stands as some of the most visceral and moving television produced in Australia in recent memory.

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Morning Mail: Coalition’s blackout ‘opportunity’, SA’s big dry, Trump toys with deporting US citizens

MP tells climate deniers that right can exploit power outages for political gain; scientist fears ‘species will be lost’ in big dry

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‘We were all in it together’: Jacob Elordi on his wartime epic The Narrow Road to the Deep North

The Saltburn and Priscilla star talks about his first Australian lead role and the physical costs of playing a prisoner of war on the Burma-Thailand railway

The Conversation

‘Ambitious’ or ‘pretentious’? The contested legacy of Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North

In 2018, it was announced that Richard Flanagan’s Man Booker Prize-winning novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North (2013) would be made into a “high-end drama series” by FremantleMedia. Jo Porter, Fremantle’s director of drama, called the novel “ripe for screen adaptation with huge visual potential and scale”. A…

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Jacob Elordi returns home in Narrow Road miniseries

A tale of love, war and memory, The Narrow Road to the Deep North sees Hollywood star Jacob Elordi playing an Australian for the first time in years.

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Narrow Road to red carpet for stars of wartime epic

Australian stars have walked the red carpet for the premiere of an epic wartime miniseries set in a Japanese PoW camp during World War II.

The Guardian - AU

New Andor, The Last of Us and Black Mirror: what’s new to streaming in Australia in April

Plus an undead Kevin Bacon, Jon Hamm burgling mansions, and Jacob Elordi in an adaptation of Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North

The Independent UK

Jacob Elordi talks weight loss and on-screen romance for 'The Narrow Road to the Deep North'

Jacob Elordi is gearing up for another busy year

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If you only read one book this year … make it this one!

From dystopian Australian cli-fi to essential essays about Black Britain and Jack Reacher’s thrilling debut – authors, critics and booksellers all have a single recommendation

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