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‘Bookshelf wealth’ is a TikTok trend, Dua Lipa’s reading Helen Garner. But books have signified taste for centuries

Books and bookshelves as interior decoration are a new trend, according to recent reports. An expert at Etsy, where some sell books by the metre in order to fill shelves, reports a 19,616% increase in searches for “book-lover decor” over the past three months, compared with the same time last…

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Pissants by Brandon Jack review – is this novel a critique or a celebration of toxic masculinity? Even it isn’t sure

The former AFL player’s debut novel barely has a plot, following a group of aggressive, entitled footy players as they get wasted and treat women like props

The Guardian - AU

Helen Garner praises ‘serious and sensitive’ Dua Lipa after musician adds Australian author to her book club

Music superstar announces 2014 courtroom drama This House of Grief as first Australian pick for global monthly book club

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I Couldn't Help But Wonder: Are Carrie's Book Props in 'And Just Like That' Major Plot Spoilers?

An absurd deep dive into Carrie's reading material and why it might be the key to unlocking the show's unhinged storylines.

Marie Claire

In Australia, the rules around academics sleeping with their students can be complicated. But is it ethical?

In Sweet Nothings, author Madison Griffiths investigates the uncomfortable complexities of “problematic sex” between academics and students on Australian university campuses.

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Several books on the mushroom trial are already cooking. What are the risks and rewards of fast books on big news?‘

Few criminal trials in recent history have piqued the public interest like Erin Patterson’s conviction for poisoning three extended family members with a beef wellington spiked with death-cap mushrooms. Two books about the trial have already been announced, the second within 24 hours of her guilty verdict for murder and…

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Scandal has erupted over bestselling memoir The Salt Path. In the ‘fake news’ era, what’s the standard for truth in memoir?

Raynor Winn, author of bestselling memoir The Salt Path – also a film starring Gillian Anderson – has been accused of deception in her story of hardship and healing. In Winn’s account, after their “forever home” is dispossessed, she and her partner, Moth (who faces a terminal diagnosis) decide to…

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At 21, Madison Griffiths dated her university tutor. It was legal, consensual – and a messy grey area

The author’s new book Sweet Nothings follows four women who, like her, dated their professors – and explores how even a consensual pedagogical relationship can result in ‘a unique harm’

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Helen Garner reflects on the ‘three worst weeks of my life’ caring for a dying friend

The author, who parlayed her experience into the award-winning novel The Spare Room, recently re-lived it while watching the stage adaptation

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Judy Davis gives a singularly vivid performance in The Spare Room – but the play falls short

In The Spare Room, Judy Davis lights up the stage with a singularly vivid performance.

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The Spare Room review – Judy Davis is electric in thrilling adaptation of Helen Garner novel

The powerhouse actor and the author’s keen prose fuel this show about a woman grappling with grief and rage while caring for her dying friend

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Working from home? It’s so much nicer if you’re a man

Ever since lockdown we’ve supposedly all been in it together, doing conference calls in our slippers. But in straight couples, guess who gets the spare bedroom and the proper desk, asks Emma Beddington

The Guardian - UK

I Want Everything by Dominic Amerena review – a delicious tale of literary deception

An ambitious young writer tells a white lie to land a scoop in this dazzling debut interrogating the ethics of writers

The Guardian - AU

I’ve never kept a diary. But if I had, I’d want it destroyed when I die

From Samuel Pepys to Joan Didion, many literary greats wrote for no one but themselves – then found posterity pawing through their secrets. Trust me: you don’t want to know my innermost thoughts

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Peter Carroll: ‘I had a fur phobia for many years – after I performed in Cats’

The veteran Australian stage and screen actor on theatre ghosts, taking inspiration from Helen Garner and the show that almost ruined him

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How To End a Story: Collected Diaries by Helen Garner review – the greatest journals since Virginia Woolf’s

The Australian writer’s decision to publish her diaries in her own lifetime – subjecting herself to scorching observations on self-doubt and unravelling marriages – makes for a wonderfully rich and rewarding read

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The acquisition of Text Publishing by Penguin Random House is part of a worrying trend in Australian publishing

Australia has been unique in the anglosphere for decades, as its independent publishers have resisted the forces of conglomeration and remained privately owned – often by their founders. But this week the third independent publisher in less than six months has merged with a multinational.

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66 days to establish a journal: ‘I feel like I’m almost cheating death’

Faced with the prospect of forgetting beautiful moments of her one and only precious life, Cait Kelly resolved to start a diary. Will it be a faithful record of life’s rumble to read when she’s 75? Only if she can read her handwriting

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Women love playing sport – and writing about it. Here are 6 fascinating and surprising sports books by women

Australians love a good sport story, because we love our sport.

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Nonfiction to look out for in 2025

From a river voyage with Robert Macfarlane to Helen Garner’s candid tale of a broken marriage, via Ian Leslie’s analysis of Lennon and McCartney’s complicated kinship, here are the titles you can’t afford to miss

The Guardian - AU

The Season by Helen Garner – a ‘nanna’s book about footy’ from an Australian literary great

In her first book since This House of Grief, the author spends a season watching her grandson play Australian rules football. The scope may sound narrow but she is working in epic mode

The Independent UK

Five writers on the five books they’d give for Christmas

BOOKS: The Independent’s writers look back on the literary year and select the very best books to gift your loved ones this festive season

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In her charming ‘nanna’s book about footy’, Helen Garner writes with candour, vigilance and insight

There are a number of good reasons you might want to read this little “nanna’s book about footy” from Helen Garner over the summer.

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Helen Garner, Virginia Woolf and Max Porter headline Belvoir St theatre’s 2025 program

‘Electrifying’ Judy Davis will star in adaptation of The Spare Room, with Colin Friels as King Lear later in the season

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Best Australian books of the 21st century: as chosen by 50 experts

Like so many avid readers around the world, I was fascinated by the recent New York Times list of the Best Books of the 21st century, as voted by 503 authors, critics and book lovers.

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