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Rebecca Kuang’s Yellowface
Some friendships are toxic, some actions become skewered on the sword of social media, and the publishing world is not always a happy place. JENNIFER SOMERVILLE delves into REBECCA KUANG’s new satirical thriller, Yellowface, to see if there’s a happy ending.
There is an ethical dilemma posed in Rebecca Kuang’s new book, Yellowface. Would any writer do the same as the narrator, publishing another author’s work in their own name? Is it plagiarism, or is it ...
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Features
W H Chong is an award-winning book designer, artist and poet. His new book, Portraits is a sparkling collection of ...
A specifically chosen word is powerful enough to influence a reader’s whole experience. But what about language? ...
Prolific children’s author and Margaret Mahy Medal recipient MARIA GILL uses creative non-fiction to spark ...
Recently I read an enjoyable thriller, although throughout my reading I was thinking to myself that something was ...
Exploring dislocation and longing, SARAH KRASNOSTEIN dives into Peter Carey’s literary tour de force, True History ...
A round-up of some of the best books out on personal development this month
BRINGING UP BOYS WHO LIKE ...
ANTHONY McCARTEN is a BAFTA Award-winning screenwriter and producer who crafted the stories that took Eddie ...
Good Reading dips into the first few paragraphs of new books to give you a taste of what’s to come.
Perhaps at ...
In her new book Man-Made, Walkley Award-winning journalist TRACEY SPICER exposes the next frontier of ...
Australia has long grappled with how to treat refugees, particularly children, who come to our country. In her new ...
Good Reading dips into the first paragraphs of new books to give you a taste of what’s to come.
A sense of ...
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Poetry asks questions of life and self. Great poetry wouldn’t exist if all the answers were readily available. ...
Chopin’s second piano scherzo was described by Schumann as ‘overflowing with tenderness, boldness, love and ...
It was Greek mythology that first captured the storytelling power of the vengeful woman and the havoc she can ...
It is the existential question that writers have tried to answer for hundreds of years. Just why are we here?
In ...
Primrose Le is very close to a nervous breakdown: her husband has cancer, her brother-in-law is coming to visit, ...
Old God's Time is a novel of contradictions. On one hand it is a detective mystery, but that is not its main ...
Narratives of war will find an audience for as long as war persists. And those that heighten our knowledge of the ...
Port Kingerton is a place where everyone knows everyone else’s business: the good, the bad and the ugly. ...
Finding love across a divide is a longstanding trope. In this novel, Eleanor, a 30-ish Christian woman in 13th ...
Most readers will be familiar with Shakespeare’s tragedy MacBeth, that stirring tale of political ambition turned ...
This 20th century historical fiction features the transformation of Singapore as it struggles with independence ...
Allira, a journalist for Folk magazine, meets Nora at a nursing home. Nora has dementia, no family, and is ...
The first chapters of the book focus on a young boy growing up after World War II. His war veteran uncle ...
Western Australia’s John Kinsella is one of the nation’s most celebrated poets. This verse novel uses a singular ...
Kelly Rimmer, bestselling author of The Warsaw Orphan and The German is back with another historical fiction novel ...
Harold Vaněk lives in East Brunswick, makes and sells pottery and has a flat above a fish and chip shop that he ...
Bodie Kane is a journalist and podcaster and has been invited back to her alma mater – Granby, a well-heeled ...
Hannah and Stef grew up in a loving suburban family with mum, Marg, and dad, Jim. As adults they are close but ...
A robbery at a jewellery shop in Orange begins a convoluted investigation for Detective Rebecca Giles, who has ...
Trilogies can be tricky, especially the ‘bridge’ instalment in the middle. They can too easily become a slog ...
This is the third novel by Hickey featuring Police Detective Mark Ariti (the first being Cutters End), though it ...
Tess Hartley lives in the flat in London once occupied by her sister, Rosie. Rosie was found dead in a London ...
Uruguayan lawyer and award-winning author Mercedes Rosende thrilled readers with her first novel to be translated ...
Candice Fox, bestselling Australian crime fiction queen of Crimson Lake is back with yet another thriller that ...
This latest novel from American master Dennis Lehane is a bleak and intense story of rage, retribution and bloody ...
Hang onto your hats, gentle readers; suspend your disbelief; and prepare to enter the world of a mathematics ...
Few authors have ever belatedly burst on the scene quite like Virginia storyteller SA Cosby has during the ...
Meet the two groups of witches in Olivie Blake’s One For My Enemy, the drug-dealing Anotova’s, and the crime ...
This might be the best fantasy book I’ve encountered in 2023. Brandon Sanderson transported me to a new planet in ...
In February 1973, under the Child Welfare Act of 1939, Indigenous girl, Brenda, and her siblings were declared ...
Acclaimed actor Sam Neill takes the listener (and reader) on a ramble through his life and experiences. Neill, at ...
It is the rituals that keep us sane. So writes Canton, who holds the wonderful title of director of Wild Writing ...
Do you really need to suck up to your boss? (Surely there are other ways to get ahead at work.)
Growing up, ...
Au contraire, Randy Newman, there is nothing wrong with being short. Brevity is the soul of wit and good ...
By the author’s own admission, most books advising how to best set up your finances and minimise tax obligations ...
This book is a fascinating insight into the exotic cuisines of a diverse range of countries stretching from Persia ...
Poseidon, angered by the actions of Odysseus, places a curse on Ithaca. Three hundred years later – when this ...
Juliet and Ronan are both teenagers with issues in their lives. Juliet has arthritis and is struggling to feel ...
Catfish Rolling is a touching story about a young girl, Sora, who has an incredible experience after a destructive ...
This Time It’s Real is a contemporary fiction, young adult romance and it is one of my favourite books I’ve read ...
The Key to Rome is a gripping tale, from the very first page, about a young girl named Livia in the year AD 84, in ...
Maddy lives with her mum and dad, little brother and their cat, Narelle, the queen of the house. Narelle sits on ...
If you haven’t discovered this series yet, then go straight to your local library or bookshop and pick them ...
Odder is an orphan. She was raised in an aquarium where she was nursed until she was released back into the wild. ...
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Gardening, like reading, is good for the mind and the soul. Digging into a good book ...
As a little girl opens her hands to reveal her treasure, her mother discovers a smooth purple pebble, blue sea ...
As Tug watched Ship head out into the deep ocean, until Ship became the tiniest of specks, Tug thought how much he ...
In the early morning as the sun is low, Ama and her little brother walk along watching their shadows. They lift ...
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