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Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by <strong>Imogen Dewey</strong>

Last year, all of literature’s big prizes went to small publishers. In a risk‑averse climate, edgy debuts and ‘tricky-to-sell’ foreign titles have found a home at the likes of Fitzcarraldo Editions and Sort Of Books

The publisher on the “arrogance” of the UK books industry and the transformative effect of three Nobel Prizes in the imprint’s eight years.

When Jacques Testard started his own publishing company in 2014, he wanted a name that suggested a crazy endeavour. Testard called the imprint Fitzcarraldo..

With its swathe of award-winning writers and distinctive blue covers, the independent press takes risks on boundary-pushing writing – and it’s paying off

The antidote to English misery memoirs, the French author's radical life-writing is the literary equivalent of an Adam Curtis documentary