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“There are few literary prizes in Australia that actually convert into book sales. I’m delighted that the Stella is one,” says Jaclyn Booton.

The Stella Prize has revolutionised the Australian publishing industry for women writers but its head says there’s more to be done.

Just in time for your Christmas shopping: Guardian Australia’s critics and staff pick out the best of the best

More important than a room of one’s own, for Sophie Cunningham: a garden of one’s own.

Helen Garner, Tim Winton, Kylie Moore-Gilbert, Jonathan Franzen, Jane Harper and other leading authors tell us what they’ve most enjoyed reading over the past 12 months.

Helen Garner, Tim Winton, Kylie Moore-Gilbert, Jonathan Franzen, Jane Harper and other leading authors tell us what they’ve most enjoyed reading over the past 12 months.

Stuck without a good book to read these holidays? The Australian Women's Weekly has you sorted with our selection of best reads.

From its source in the Victorian Alps, the Goulburn River flows north, snaking through the regional town of Shepparton on its way to meet the Murray on the New South Wales border. Sometimes, the combined waters of both rivers back up along the Murray, travelling for about 80 kilometres to a narrow section of the river called the Barmah Choke, and from there it spills out through the Barmah–Millewa Forest, the world’s greatest, and largest, stand of that classic Australian eucalypt, the river...

The Melbourne author spent 16 years researching and writing her deeply original novel. In the process, This Devastating Fever became <em>about</em> the process too

Each month, Guardian Australia editors and critics pick out the upcoming titles they’ve already devoured – or can’t wait to get their hands on