Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #australianbooks, aggregated by home.social.
Mao’s Last Dancer Li Cunxin on his long-awaited follow-up: ‘I don’t think my publisher expected it to take 14 years!’
By Tim Byrne
As The Lucky Son picks up where Cunxin’s 2003 memoir left off, the renowned Chinese Australian ballet dancer reflects on sacrifices made by his wife, his years at a stockbroker, and his success leading the Queensland Ballet
#Australianbooks #Ballet #Autobiographyandmemoir #Culture #Books #Dance #Stage #China #Queensland #Australianews #TheGuardian #TimByrne
Queensland literary awards: ‘stunning’ debut inspired by segregated shantytown wins top prize
By Sian Cain
Lenora Thaker wins $30,000 prize for ‘a work of state significance’ for The Pearl of Tagai Town, which draws on her family’s history in Cairns-Malay Town
#Australianbooks #Queensland #Australianews #Books #Culture #TheGuardian #SianCain
Best Australian books out in October: Magda Szubanski, delicious recipes and a picture book ‘masterpiece’
By Tim Byrne, Steph Harmon, Sian Cain, Yvonne C Lam, Paul Daley, Imogen Dewey and Susan Chenery
Each month Guardian Australia editors and critics pick the upcoming titles they have devoured – or can’t wait to get their hands on
https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2026/oct/05/australia-best-books-october-2026
#Australianbooks #Books #Fiction #Culture #Historybooks #Foodanddrinkbooks #Autobiographyandmemoir #Healthmindandbodybooks #Poetry #Childrenandteenagers #Biographybooks #TheGuardian #TimByrne #StephHarmon #SianCain #YvonneCLam #PaulDaley #ImogenDewey #SusanChenery
‘There’s a lot of silence’: have we created a new ‘Lonely Generation’?
By Celina Ribeiro
Learning to be one human among many has always been a little lonely and discombobulating. But young people around the world are lonelier than ever. Why?
https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2026/oct/04/young-generation-lonely-silence
#Loneliness #Youngpeople #Society #Australianbooks #Psychology #TheGuardian #CelinaRibeiro
Shaun Tan: ‘We’re always only seeing a thin skin of reality’
By Tim Byrne
One of Australia’s most cherished and awarded picture book illustrators on what makes a good painting, the mechanics of life and the fine line between utopia and dystopia
#Australianbooks #Childrenandteenagers #Picturebooks #Books #Lifeandstyle #Australianlifestyle #Culture #Fiction #TheGuardian #TimByrne
My mother’s phone calls became stranger, but I couldn’t visit. A rescue dog helped me reach her
By Carrie Tiffany
Conversation was difficult. But Sally, a dear old German shepherd, gave me a glimpse of my mother’s emotional state
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/oct/01/rescue-dog-mother-dementia-alzheimers
#Dogs #Ageing #Animals #Lifeandstyle #Pets #Books #Australianbooks #Culture #Dementia #Coronavirus #Alzheimers #TheGuardian #CarrieTiffany
I Can’t Tell You But I Will by Magda Szubanski review – an insightful, elegant, anti-celebrity memoir
By Tim Byrne
Szubanski’s latest book delves into both her mother’s decline, and her triumphant fight for marriage equality
#MagdaSzubanski #Autobiographyandmemoir #Culture #Celebrity #Books #Australianbooks #Marriageequality #Samesexmarriagepostalsurvey #TheGuardian #TimByrne
I was focused on becoming the first Aboriginal tennis champion. Then one remark changed something in me
By Evonne Goolagong Cawley
As a teenager in Sydney, the would-be Wimbledon champion was working towards a singular goal when an act of racism shattered her naivety
#Australianbooks #Tennis #Race #IndigenousAustralians #Australiasport #Australianews #Sydney #Books #Autobiographyandmemoir #TheGuardian #EvonneGoolagongCawley
Bruce Pascoe’s new book may spark another culture war. He hopes for ‘decency and intellectual curiosity’ this time
By Paul Daley
The Dark Emu author rails against Christianity, capitalism and colonialism – and Shakespeare and Charles Dickens cop a serve too. He’s ready for blowback
#Australianbooks #Books #Historybooks #Australianews #IndigenousAustralians #Culture #Colonialism #Christianity #Religion #TheGuardian #PaulDaley
Andy Griffiths on Terry Denton’s genius: ‘He was a true clown. He could make something funny out of nothing’
By As told to Sian Cain
The children’s author remembers his friend and collaborator of 35 years, whose ‘seemingly inexhaustible flow of nonsense’ drove their bestselling Treehouse books
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/sep/24/andy-griffiths-terry-denton-death-treehouse-books
#Australianbooks #Childrenandteenagers #Books #Culture #Illustration #TheGuardian #AstoldtoSianCain
Terry Denton, beloved Australian illustrator best known for Treehouse series, dies aged 76
By Guardian staff
The illustrator and author ‘gave joy to millions of children around the world’, his family say
#Australianbooks #Childrenandteenagers #Books #Culture #TheGuardian #Guardianstaff
Cul-de-Sac by Eleanor Limprecht review – a powerful and timely novel about domestic abuse
By Bec Kavanagh
Limprecht explores male violence without succumbing to tropes, bringing the monster into the room and forcing us to really look at him
#Books #Culture #Fiction #Australianbooks #TheGuardian #BecKavanagh
Gone Guru by Nadine Browne review – a clever and funny metafictional caper
By Catriona Menzies-Pike
This debut novel follows a 38-year-old whose flatmate goes missing at the same time as her memoir manuscript is being torn apart by her classmates
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/sep/11/gone-guru-nadine-browne-debut-novel-book-review
#Books #Culture #Fiction #Australianbooks #TheGuardian #CatrionaMenziesPike
Prime Minister’s Literary awards 2026: ‘profound’ novel based on Yolngu oral history wins $80,000
By Emma Joyce
Judges praised A Piece of Red Cloth as a ‘landmark achievement in fiction’, with Kate Wild, Zana Fraillon and Rohan Howitt also winning in their categories
#PrimeMinistersLiteraryAwards #Australianbooks #Culture #Books #Fiction #Awardsandprizes #Historybooks #TheGuardian #EmmaJoyce
My friend Blanche d’Alpuget often spoke to me about death. She once likened it to ‘untying a million little knots’ | Derek Rielly
By Derek Rielly
The woman so pivotal in Australian literature and politics blew into my orbit in a tornado of Doris Day hair and Sophia Loren lips in the winter of 2016
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/10/blanche-dalpuget-appreciation-derek-rielly
#BobHawke #Australianpolitics #Australianbooks #TheGuardian #DerekRielly
My friend Blanche d’Alpuget often spoke to me about death. She once likened it to ‘untying a million little knots’ | Derek Rielly https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/10/blanche-dalpuget-appreciation-derek-rielly #BobHawke #AustralianPolitics #AustralianBooks
True to her own life, Blanche d’Apulget leaves a rule to live by: ‘Love one another’
By Tory Shepherd
D’Apulget was a successful author who brought her own star power to her relationship with her ‘great love’, Bob Hawke
#Australianpolitics #Australianbooks #Australianews #Sydney #Laborparty #TheGuardian #ToryShepherd
Let your mind wander, don’t retire and stop worrying: surprising ways to help save your brain from the cognitive cliff
By Guardian staff speak to Dr Norman Swan
In his new book, The Brain Cliff, Dr Norman Swan outlines the science of brain ageing and strategies for staving off cognitive decline
#Healthwellbeing #Neuroscience #Dementia #Australianbooks #Lifeandstyle #Australianlifestyle #Humanbiology #Health #Books #Culture #Science #Mentalhealth #TheGuardian #GuardianstaffspeaktoDrNormanSwan
Holly Throsby: ‘I was proud to not make a breakup album’
By Dee Jefferson
The writer and musician on returning to music, finding herself, and why right now is a terrifying time to be an artist
#Australianmusic #Australianbooks #Popandrock #Lifeandstyle #Australianlifestyle #Music #Books #TheGuardian #DeeJefferson
People With Money by Jess Ho review – race, class and gender collide in this outlandish but overcooked satire
By Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen
In their debut novel following their memoir Raised by Wolves, Ho’s signature sarcasm is present throughout but some characters border on caricature
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/sep/04/people-with-money-jess-ho-book-novel-review
#Fiction #Books #Culture #Romancebooks #Australianbooks #TheGuardian #GiselleAuNhienNguyen
I used to think I was an ambivalent mother, then my child started to stutter | Bridie Jabour
By Bridie Jabour
I snapped at my children. Resented daily pickup. But I was there when he needed me, and my perception of myself completely changed
#Parentsandparenting #Australianbooks #Books #Culture #Family #Lifeandstyle #TheGuardian #BridieJabour
Best Australian books out in September: a Big Little Lies sequel, Keating’s vision and ‘superagers’
By Catriona Menzies-Pike, Sian Cain, Sophie Black, Celina Ribeiro, Yvonne C Lam, Walter Marsh, Bec Kavanagh and Kat Wong
Each month Guardian Australia editors and critics pick the upcoming titles they have devoured – or can’t wait to get their hands on
#Australianbooks #Books #Fiction #Fantasybooks #Culture #PaulKeating #TheGuardian #CatrionaMenziesPike #SianCain #SophieBlack #CelinaRibeiro #YvonneCLam #WalterMarsh #BecKavanagh #KatWong
Gen Z ‘Chinamaxxers’ fantasise about life in China. This journalist and this artist can never go back there
By Kat Wong
A graphic novel by Melissa Chan and Badiucao imagines China and the US at war in 2035. They hope to remind young people that ‘authoritarianism everywhere is bad’
#Comicsandgraphicnovels #Culture #Books #Festivals #Fiction #Artanddesignbooks #Australianbooks #China #TheGuardian #KatWong
A poem by Troy Wong: ‘My djungelskog is my role model for an alternative masculinity’
By Troy Wong
Each week during Australian Poetry Month, a poet walks us through one of their works. Here, Wong shares how his floppy Ikea stuffie is a role model for a softer, more vulnerable identity
#AustralianPoetryMonth #Poetry #Australianbooks #TheGuardian #TroyWong
Malcolm Knox: ‘Trump’s name will turn to dust, just as every other dictator’s name has’
By Walter Marsh
It may sound strange: satirical novels set in Stalin’s Soviet empire, by an Australian journalist, about Trump’s America. But Knox’s darkly hilarious books have arrived when global politics so often feel like a farce
#Australianbooks #Books #Fiction #Culture #Russia #JosephStalin #TheGuardian #WalterMarsh
Barack Obama, JFK and … Josh Frydenberg: what can a memoir do for an ambitious politician?
By Joshua Black
The former treasurer’s new book will hit shelves soon, but he may learn that memoirs can be blunt instruments for political renewal. Just ask Peter Costello
#JoshFrydenberg #Australianpolitics #Australianbooks #TheGuardian #JoshuaBlack
Big things and pink poodles: Frida Las Vegas’s tour of Australian kitsch – in pictures
By Clare Press
Stavroula Adameitis, AKA Frida Las Vegas, is an Adelaide-based artist and designer known for her camp, pop art aesthetic. A typical work might feature palm trees, poodles, Greek pillars or bin chickens (Australian white ibises), sometimes all at once. Does it veer into kitsch? ‘I hope so,’ she says. ‘Nostalgia, colour and fun can be very energising, and the feeling we get from these objects in popular culture binds us together.’
#Photography #Australianart #Australianlifestyle #Artanddesign #Culture #Australianbooks #TheGuardian #ClarePress
Time Travel for Beginners by Jaclyn Moriarty review – an imaginative tale of turning back time
By Bec Kavanagh
The YA author’s third novel for adults wears its quantum physics lightly, but it is a delight to be lost in its rich, character-driven world
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/aug/27/time-travel-for-beginners-by-jaclyn-moriarty-review
#Books #Fiction #Culture #Australianbooks #TheGuardian #BecKavanagh
A poem by Jan Fran: ‘Write it down, they say. You’ll feel better. But how to speak the unspeakable?’
By Jan Fran
Each week during Australian Poetry Month, a poet walks us through one of their works. Here, the journalist grapples with raising a child in a time of ‘tremendous helplessness’
#AustralianPoetryMonth #Australianbooks #Poetry #Books #Culture #TheGuardian #JanFran
Blue Giant by Jordan Prosser review – would life be better on Mars?
By Catriona Menzies-Pike
Melancholy and humour pierce Prosser’s second novel, which swings in zany directions as its fabulous central character tries to escape the shitshows of 21st-century life
#Fiction #Australianbooks #Books #Culture #TheGuardian #CatrionaMenziesPike
A poem by Janiru Liyanage: ‘I still remember watching my great-aunt struggle to breathe’
By Janiru Liyanage
Each week during Australian Poetry Month, a poet walks us through one of their works. Here, the 17-year-old poet reflects on being ‘deeply moored to’ memories of his great-aunt’s last days
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/aug/17/janiru-liyanage-the-job-poem-australian-poetry-month
#AustralianPoetryMonth #Australianbooks #Poetry #Books #Culture #TheGuardian #JaniruLiyanage
Mine by Adam Ouston review – novel told in a single sentence is a hallucinatory reading experience
By Catriona Menzies-Pike
Ouston’s second novel follows a poet who is trapped in an abandoned mine in Tasmania while searching for inspiration for his ‘last great work’
#Fiction #Australianbooks #Books #Culture #Australianews #TheGuardian #CatrionaMenziesPike
A poem by Ziggy Ramo: ‘A Welcome to Country was booed on Anzac Day. The disrespect was blunt’
By Ziggy Ramo
Each week during Australian Poetry Month, a poet walks us through one of their works. Here, rapper Ramo shares one about ‘being invited in and rejected at the same time’
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/aug/10/ziggy-ramo-rapper-poem-australian-poetry-month
#AustralianPoetryMonth #Australianbooks #Poetry #Music #TheGuardian #ZiggyRamo
Sydney’s sugar rush: how the colony’s most powerful profited from Australia’s slave trade
By Paul Daley
Australia likes to think its history is untainted by slavery but a new book traces how a who’s who in the NSW capital profited from the capture and sale of ‘blackbirded’ Pacific Islanders
#Sydney #Slavery #IndigenousAustralians #Australianews #Race #Pacificislands #Vanuatu #Sugar #Colonialism #Queensland #Business #Australianbooks #Museums #Books #Shippingindustry #Forcedlabour #AsiaPacific #SouthPacific #TheGuardian #PaulDaley
Tech barons dream of human colonies on Mars – but I can’t think of a worse place to die | Jordan Prosser
By Jordan Prosser
Humans love to do stupid things to reach far-off places – but even the wildest frontiers on Earth have at least the possibility of a return home
#Australianbooks #Mars #Space #Books #Culture #TheGuardian #JordanProsser
Tech barons dream of human colonies on Mars – but I can’t think of a worse place to die | Jordan Prosser https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/aug/07/tech-barons-dream-of-human-colonies-on-mars-but-i-cant-think-of-a-worse-place-to-die #AustralianBooks #Mars #Space #Books #Culture
Your guide to the books in the 2026 Miles Franklin award shortlist: provocation, ruin and empire
By Alexander Howard for the Conversation
Six authors are in the running for Australia’s most prestigious book award, which will be announced on Wednesday night. Here’s your primer
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/aug/05/miles-franklin-award-2026-books-shortlist
#MilesFranklinliteraryaward2026 #Australianbooks #Fiction #Books #Culture #MilesFranklinliteraryaward #TheGuardian #AlexanderHowardfortheConversation
Best Australian books out in August: new Meg Mason, musicians tell all and a time-travel tale by ‘a master storyteller’
By Sian Cain, Jack Callil, Sophie Black, Catriona Menzies-Pike, Bec Kavanagh, Alyx Gorman, Celina Ribeiro, Luca Ittimani and Paul Daley
Each month Guardian Australia editors and critics pick the upcoming titles they have devoured – or can’t wait to get their hands on
#Australianbooks #Books #Fiction #Culture #Historybooks #Sciencefictionbooks #Autobiographyandmemoir #Biographybooks #TheGuardian #SianCain #JackCallil #SophieBlack #CatrionaMenziesPike #BecKavanagh #AlyxGorman #CelinaRibeiro #LucaIttimani #PaulDaley
A mystery virus started killing horses. Then humans. Was this the moment our coronavirus era began?
By Michael Dulaney
In the 1990s, scientists in Australia began searching for the origins of a new disease showing up in places hundreds of kilometres apart. They discovered the origin: bats. And found a way to reduce the risk of bat disease spillovers
#Infectiousdiseases #Australianbooks #Environment #Health #Coronavirus #Science #Animals #Books #TheGuardian #MichaelDulaney
Rite of Spring by Kris Kneen review – a woman’s sexual awakening lurks in the ocean’s depths
By Bec Kavanagh
A couple sign up as lighthouse keepers on an isolated island off Tasmania. But Miranda is on the cusp of a transformation – and sex is everywhere
#Australianbooks #Books #Culture #Australianews #Tasmania #Marinelife #Oceans #Sex #Gender #Marriage #Environment #Fiction #TheGuardian #BecKavanagh
Book Review – Yeah the Boys by Holden Sheppard
It’s risky writing a sequel to a popular novel.
It could feel rushed. It may not reflect the same spirit. It may run out of fresh ideas. This sequel to Invisible Boys has none of these issues.
Every novel Holden Sheppard has written is a page turner. His characters are well developed and very accessible. But Yeah the Boys brings Holden’s writing up a notch – as is the case of any author passionate about their craft.
We reacquaint ourselves with Charlie, Hammer and Zeke, who are older so some things have changed since we last left them. Charlie and Zeke have had a falling out, and Hammer is a successful AFL player, even though there is younger talent ready to take the shine off him.
But Zeke and Hammer are still uncomfortable being gay.
Zeke consoles himself with a lot of sex. Hammer is fearful his fans and fellow teammates will learn about his sexuality – it could kill his career. But Charlie continues to be the out and proud young man we know. He lives with an older gay couple who are opening a men only nightclub.
What really grabbed me about this tale is the way it explores current issues, like the shallow nature of social media and the disappearance of gay social spaces. And it does it in a way which Gen X, Gen Y, Millennials, and Gen Z can relate to. Holden knows what he wants to say, and he says it well.
Gen X are represented by the older couple.
Curtis has fought the battles which paved the way to gay liberation, and Ahmed is the caring supportive partner described as the bottomiest of bottoms (one of my favourite lines in the book). Many of their views aligned with mine.
The pitfalls of 2020s social media is explored through a clueless influencer keen to close down the couple’s men’s only disco because of its lack of inclusivity. His failure to understand the world before his existence, along with his overblown self-importance, reflect how many of my generation feel about the destructive effect of certain social platforms.
The new cast don’t overshadow our three beloved stars.
Their inclusion is important to the things which need to be said about where the gay scene is at right now, because Charlie, Zeke, and Hammer are swept up in all of this – navigating their way between what was and what could be.
Another five star read from Holden.
#AustralianBooks #AustralianFiction #AustralianLiterature #bookReview #Books #gay #gayAuthor #gayIssues #HoldenSheppard #YeahTheBoys
Australia has a love-hate relationship with cats – but under all the emotion is a fascinating history | Jodie Stewart
By Jodie Stewart
We got our first feline hero in 1971 when Matthew Flinders’ heartfelt tribute to his pet Trim was discovered
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jul/16/australia-cats-love-hate-relationship-history
#Australianbooks #Cats #Pets #Animals #Books #Culture #Conservation #Australianews #Australianmedia #Environment #RuralandregionalAustralia #Animalwelfare #TheGuardian #JodieStewart
Australia has a love-hate relationship with cats – but under all the emotion is a fascinating history | Jodie Stewart https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jul/16/australia-cats-love-hate-relationship-history #AustralianBooks #Cats #Pets #Animals #Books #Culture #Conservation #AustraliaNews #AustralianMedia #Environment #RuralAndRegionalAustralia #AnimalWelfare
A Short History of Longans by Mirandi Riwoe review – a moving family portrait devoured in one sitting
By Seren Heyman-Griffiths
Riwoe’s commanding new book traces a Chinese Australian family across four generations – all connected by one old longan tree
#Fiction #Australianbooks #Books #Culture #TheGuardian #SerenHeymanGriffiths
‘Stop telling people it’s weird’: Andrew Upton on his strange new novel, and having Cate Blanchett read it first
By Susan Chenery
An allegory in the spirit of Animal Farm, the Australian playwright’s debut novel about a disfigured chicken is a fantastical fable that’s both funny and ‘a bit bleak’
#Australianbooks #Fiction #Books #Culture #CateBlanchett #TheGuardian #SusanChenery
AI companies want to water down Australia’s copyright laws. Artists are outraged, Labor is split
By Dan Jervis-Bardy and Josh Butler
Anthony Albanese will deliver a landmark speech on AI this week as MPs are torn between attracting datacentre investment and protecting the rights of creatives
#AIartificialintelligence #Australianews #Datacentres #Australianpolitics #DavidPocock #AnthonyAlbanese #Laborparty #Technology #Technologysector #AustralianGreens #Independents #Intellectualproperty #Australianbooks #Anthropic #SarahHansonYoung #TheGuardian #DanJervisBardy #JoshButler
Authors like me must have faith that Australia, where fairness is fundamental, won’t gut our copyright for big tech | Anna Funder https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/06/authors-writers-copyright-australia-ai-artificial-intelligence-anna-funder #AiArtificialIntelligence #RightsIssues #AustralianBooks
‘There’s an aura about it’: 210-year-old first edition of Jane Austen’s Emma on display in Melbourne
By Emma Joyce
The major acquisition is part of an initiative to redress the gender imbalance in the State Library of Victoria’s rare books collection
#JaneAusten #Books #Victoria #Australianews #Libraries #Australianbooks #Culture #EmmaJoyce
‘This is the dark art’: New book claims pattern of personal attacks by Murdoch media empire
By Amanda Meade
In a book dedicated to ‘the bullied’, two former News Corp journalists outline a behaviour pattern they call ‘getting Murdoched’, which they say harms individuals and public debate
#RupertMurdoch #Australianbooks #Books #Journalismbooks #Media #Australianews #NewsCorporation #AmandaMeade
Australia is publishing books too quickly – and everyone is losing out https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jun/22/australia-publishing-industry-releasing-books-too-quickly #AustralianBooks #Books #AustraliaNews #Culture #Publishing #Business #Booksellers #Fiction
Zoe Pepper and Fiona Wright take on the housing crisis in Birthright and Kill Your Boomers
Like so many Australians, author Fiona Wright can’t resist snooping in an open home. “You get these glimpses…
#NewsBeep #News #Entertainment #AU #Australia #australianbooks #australianmovies #birthright #birthrightfilm #birthrightmovie #fionawright #housingcrisis #killyourboomers #wheretowatchbirthright #zoepepper
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/718473/
‘A book that should be read by all Australians’: Clare Wright wins book of the year at the NSW Literary awards https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/may/18/clare-wright-wins-book-of-the-year-nsw-literary-awards #AustralianBooks #AwardsAndPrizes #Culture #Books #HistoryBooks #IndigenousAustralians #AustraliaNews
Stella prize 2026: Lee Lai becomes first non-binary person and first graphic novelist to win with Cannon https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/may/13/stella-prize-2026-lee-lai-cannon-non-binary-graphic-novelist-ntwnfb #StellaPrize #ComicsAndGraphicNovels #Books #Culture #AustralianBooks #AwardsAndPrizes #AustraliaNews
Shaken staff and an author exodus: how a picture book plunged an acclaimed Australian publisher into a crisis over antisemitism
The cancellation of Jazz Money’s children’s book Bila, A River Cycle over comments by the book’s illustrator, Matt Chun, has led to the publisher’s potential collapse On 28 February, University of Queensland Press received an email from one of its authors warning of the publisher’s impending collapse. UQP is one of the most celebrated literary houses in the country – the Australian Book Industry Awards’ small publisher of the year for four of the past five years – and its enviable stable of authors continues to win major awards. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/may/03/shaken-staff-and-an-author-exodus-how-a-picture-book-plunged-an-acclaimed-australian-publisher-into-a-crisis-over-antisemitism
#Publishing #Australianbooks #Australianuniversities #IsraelGazawar #IndigenousAustralians
David Malouf, Australian author of Remembering Babylon and Ransom, dies aged 92 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/apr/23/david-malouf-australian-author-of-remembering-babylon-and-ransom-dies-aged-92 #Books #AustralianBooks #Culture #AustraliaNews #Brisbane #BookerPrize #Fiction #ShortStories #Queensland
Tasmania’s Mount Arthur: a place awash with the true sort of quiet that soaks into your skin | Joseph Earp https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/21/mount-arthur-tasmania-quiet-nature #Tasmania #AustralianBooks #AustraliaNews #RuralAndRegionalAustralia
A Melbourne rooftop: the glittering night sky opened our hearts and minds to each other | Tony Birch https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/14/melbourne-rooftop-glittering-night-sky #AustralianBooks #Melbourne #Books #Family #ParentsAndParenting #AustraliaNews #YoungPeople
Adelaide University cancels literary festival event with UN Gaza investigator Francesca Albanese https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/04/adelaide-university-cancels-francesca-albanese-un-gaza-investigator #AustralianUniversities #Adelaide #AustralianBooks #FreedomOfSpeech #AustraliaNews
Evelyn Araluen wins $125,000 for ‘politically uncompromising’ poetry at Victorian premier’s literary awards https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/feb/25/evelyn-araluen-wins-victorian-premiers-literary-awards-2026 #Poetry #AustralianBooks #Books #Culture #Victoria #AwardsAndPrizes #AustraliaNews
Randa Abdel-Fattah to Participate in Sydney Writers' Festival Amidst Controversy
Why is Randa Abdel-Fattah speaking at the Sydney Writers Festival in 2026? After the Adelaide event was cancelled, she will now join two sessions in Sydney.
#sydneywritersfestival, #randaabdelfattah, #sydneyevents2026, #australianbooks, #adelaidewritersweek
https://newsletter.tf/why-is-randa-abdel-fattah-speaking-at-sydney-writers-festival-2026/