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As societal habits change so too does language and metaphors.
This year’s shortlisted novels.
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Rules for the UK’s most prestigious and lucrative literary prize effectively mean it is dominated by big publishers.
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Writing is a solitary art. But authors shortlisted for the Booker Prize have to perform in public. Here’s how this year’s crop fared.
Boys typically read less frequently and perform worse on national and international reading assessments than girls.
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Girls are encouraged more often to read, despite performing better in reading assessments nationally and internationally. Here’s how parents and educators can help connect boys with books.
Writing is an act of imagination - but when it comes to imagining other people’s lives, it pays to do your research.
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Writing based on observation and empathy is one thing; but interviewing the people whose experiences you aim to depict - and showing them your work - is quite another.
Australian crime fiction author Peter Corris published 102 novels in lifetimes, including 52 centred on the private investigator Cliff Hardy.
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With The Dying Trade, Peter Corris introduced Australia to one of its most successful crime heroes, Cliff Hardy.
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Kofi Annan and John McCain’s positive eulogies could be because both men seized moments of human dignity and decency.
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A great movie that gets some of its history wrong is way better than an accurate film that puts people to sleep.
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Mad, bad or dangerous – the gripping true crime story of Grace Marks, who caused a sensation in the 19th century and still holds fascination today.
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These books will kickstart a lifelong love of reading, and build a bedtime bond between parent and child.
Female protagonists are forging a new way in contemporary young adult fiction.
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Female protagonists in young adult fiction are unlikely heroines who embrace their flaws. But when it comes to diversity, they are still largely white and middle class.
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Cryonics is no longer synonymous with science fiction. What are we technically capable of doing and what do we have the right to do?
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Whether you loved him or hated him, his canonical status is beyond question.
Unfortunately for the intrepid astronauts in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001, a Space Odyssey , the HAL 9000 computer knows how to read lips.
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Since Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece debuted in 1968, fictional stories of faulty or malevolent AI are legion. What have recent advances taught us and what might the future hold?
Tim Winton sets his latest novel, The Shepherd’s Hut, in the salt lakes of Western Australia.
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Tim Winton’s latest novel, The Shepherd’s Hut, pushes the author’s classic themes to the extreme.
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Literary fiction is robust enough to withstand the challenges the 21st century throws at it.
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Treatment for nervous exhaustion in the Victorian era could literally drive you mad.
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Ursula le Guin gave us an anarchist society on another world; we brought it back to Earth.
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Science fiction has a more important job to do – it allows us to see ourselves in a new light.
Even common knowledge isn’t immune.
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Reading something that sows doubt about a widely agreed-upon fact – even the election of George Washington as president – can have a profound effect.