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Jeanette Winterson asks how AI will give new meaning to ghost stories and Kate Grenville reflects on a lifetime of writing and how accepting failure has been key to her success. Jeanette Winterson is best known for her novels Oranges are Not the Only Fruit, The Stone Gods and Frankissstein. Her long fascination with mortality, religion and technology have come together in a new book of short stories, Night Side of the River (Jonathan Cape), which considers what technology might mean for the futu...

City council joins long list of book censorship in Australia

This month's Cumberland council book ban in Western Sydney shocked much of the country, but around the world the leash can be a lot tighter on literature that's deemed dangerous by autocracies and religious extremists. In a five-part series, producer of the Book Show Sarah L'Estrange has explored book bans, from the United States, the censorship of web-fiction in China, even the story of Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses. Guest:Sarah L'Estrange, host of 'Banned Books&...

With the rise of social media and platforms that encourage copying trends and sharing material, plagiarising is more rife than ever. So what does it take for someone to do it blatantly? And could we all be doing it without realising?

Find out how to catch a plagiarist in the first of our series Fakes and Frauds - the book scandals that rocked Australia. And Australian prize winning author, Alexis Wright on her new novel Praiseworthy, an epic Aboriginal fable. 

The Stella Prize 2021 shortlist spotlights the best books by Australian women and non-binary writers Posted Yesterday at 11:41pm SatSaturday 10 The Stella Prize prize emerged from discussions around gender disparity in the Australian literary landscape. ( Share Print text only Cancel The shortlist for the 2021 Stella Prize brings together key strands of angst and anxiety from the past 12 months — pandemics, sexual violence and misogyny, race, the environment. Two of the books deal with the ...

The best books of 2020 for your summer reading list Posted FriFriday 11 2020 has been a big year for parks, picnics and reading. ( Share Print text only Cancel Was there a year in recent years where we needed books more? Of the many, many our book experts read this year, these are the ones that have lasted the distance; made indelible impressions; surprised and delighted. Enjoy them outdoors if you possibly can. Amnesty by Aravind Adiga ( Supplied: Pan Macmillan Australia) Over 24 hours we fo...