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Kate Grenville suggests we read Elizabeth Macarthur’s letters as ‘a wonderful piece of fiction, sustained over sixty years’. They were exercises in doubleness, concealment, and delicious irony.

Rich with evocative detail, an author’s personal account of childlessness has no neat narrative arc, but is touched by grace and acceptance.

At the beginning of 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

This year’s Stella Prize shortlist consists of six experimental, genre-bending titles that confront issues of justice and truth-telling.

Three collections are up for the $50,000 Australian literary prize for women and non-binary writers, alongside a graphic novel, an essay and one novel

The Fish is a novel about a writer’s growth to maturity, but it is also a strange story about family breakdown, difference and shame.

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The Nobel Laureate’s new experimental epic is a masterful account of the life of a self-proclaimed Messiah.

The 2022 Stella long-list has been announced, and for the first time ever, poetry collections are included in the prize.

Māori women are represented in every category and two Māori writers are among the four shortlisted for the fiction prize