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'Foolish': Mabo historian pans festival axing of author

A pre-eminent Australian historian has joined a growing list of nearly 100 speakers pulling out of a writers' festival after it dumped a pro-Palestine academic.

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Flaming sambuca and vodka Redbull: Australian writers and comics on the awful drinks of their youth

Kathy Lette, Trent Dalton, Rhys Nicholson and more look back on their most memorable – and regrettable – summer libations

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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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Seed by Bri Lee – this propulsive, fun eco-thriller is the novelist’s strongest yet

Set in a secret Antarctic seed bank, Seed is a novel of friction and paranoia, of weaponised mistrust and cloistered desire, narrated by a misogynist antinatalist

The Guardian - AU

Trent Dalton, Bri Lee and Melissa Leong’s ‘raw’ memoir: the best Australian books out in October

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

Gravity Let Me Go by Trent Dalton review – ocker crime caper plagued by more than a beleaguered ballsack

The bestseller’s fourth novel could have tackled timely questions about true crime – but instead it offers a bleakly retrograde fable about being a good bloke

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The moment I knew: I thought I was too cool for love. My rock idol knew better

Trent Dalton had a crush on his sophisticated colleague Fiona. The lead singer of his favourite band helped him find the words to tell her

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Aacta awards 2025: Robbie Williams’ Better Man and Boy Swallows Universe dominate Australian film and TV prizes

Biopic of British singer wins best film and best actor for motion capture star Johnno Davies, while Trent Dalton adaptation takes home 12 of 22 nominations

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Robbie Williams biopic Better Man and Boy Swallows Universe lead 2025 Aacta award nominations

Netflix adaptation of Trent Dalton’s novel lands 22 nominations, the most in Aacta history, while Williams’ Melbourne-made biopic sets new record for film with 16 nominations

The Guardian - AU

Netflix’s Territory is a Succession-like drama packed with family rivalry and betrayal, set in Australia’s outback

The Australian commissioning team at Netflix has had a pretty good run over the past 12 months. In January, the adaptation of Trent Dalton’s novel Boy Swallows Universe proved to be the most successful Australian-made show to that point, scoring 7.6 million views globally in its first two weeks.

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Trent Dalton’s Love Stories review – a stage adaptation that grabs you by the heart

From the team that brought Boy Swallows Universe to the theatre comes a new work that tells a city’s worth of stories – and packs an emotional punch

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Trent Dalton takes Love Stories to the street and stage

Bestselling author Trent Dalton is returning to the streets of Brisbane to collect love stories. He'll have a typewriter, but will he bring his Logie?

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Rob Carlton is a willing participant in the Canberra Comedy Festival

The actor tells four funny and poignant life stories in his show.

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Is Australian TV in its golden era? The 2024 Aacta awards has a huge field of quality contenders

The past year has spoiled audiences with ambitious, gripping television. Some will be celebrated and plenty more will miss out

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Newcastle teen Isaac Strutt-Stevens has the Netflix universe at his feet

He has been praised for his Boy Swallows Universe performance.

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Is Boy Swallows Universe a true story? The real tale behind the tear-jerking Netflix series

Viewers want to know if Boy Swallows Universe is a true story as the Netflix series brings fans to tears with this new series

The Guardian - AU

Boy Swallows Universe review – Netflix’s Trent Dalton adaptation is one of a kind

This seven-part series based on the bestseller is impressive, following a young boy who must navigate 1980s Brisbane’s criminal world

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Brio, style and close reading: a collection of essays celebrates a remarkable publication

Critic Swallows Book collects 22 diverse essays from the Sydney Review of Books (SRB) to celebrate its ten-year anniversary. Established in 2013, the SRB is devoted to long form criticism and is an open access, online-only publication.

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Lola in the Mirror by Trent Dalton review – a misguided bootstraps story drowning in sentimentality

The bestselling author has noble intentions but his third novel romanticises homelessness, perpetuating dangerous myths while charting nowhere new

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Why stolen Australian books are being used to train AI

Novels from best-selling Australian authors including Trent Dalton are being used to improve generative AI without their knowledge or consent.

Newcastle Herald

Your best weekend reads: Trent Dalton; Riverlights; Old Trafford; G-Pizza; music and more

What's in the Hunter's best weekend liftout.

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‘We’re a tough mob up here’: Queenslanders try to put on brave face after hat-trick of grand final heartaches

They’re shattered, gutted, cursing the football gods. And yet fans of the Broncos, Lions and Titans say they’d do it all again tomorrow

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'I just find it very hard to talk about it without getting emotional': top journalists reveal their trade secrets to Leigh Sales

Journalist Samantha Maiden won Australia’s top award in journalism, the Gold Walkley, in 2022 for her coverage of the Brittany Higgins case. When talking to Leigh Sales about the experience of covering this story, for Sales’ new book, Storytellers, she found herself in tears.

Newcastle Herald

How a champion's moment 23 years ago helped light a fire that burns on

'I am reading a novel based on love stories'

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Canberra's favourite library books for 2022

Australian authors are very popular among Canberrans.

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