Two new books go behind the scenes on the Teacher’s Pet case. One is by Lyn Dawson’s daughter, Shanelle, and the other is by Hedley Thomas, creator of the internationally successful podcast.
From left to right: Mary, Queen of Scotts, Elisabeth de Valois and Catherine de Medici.
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A new book evokes the tumultuous nature of 16th century Europe through the eyes of three queens: Catherine de’ Medici, her daughter Elisabeth and her daughter-in-law, Mary, Queen of Scots.
Drawing by an Aboriginal boy, Oscar, of a Native Police operation c.1897 near Camooweal.
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It’s remarkable to see these three innovative, bravely experimental and often unsettling Australian story collections – by a debut author and two prize-winners – published so closely together.
Not everyone appears as they seem.
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The third book to feature the eponymous detective is a whydunnit not a whodunnit.
Leaders of African American, Latino and Native American communities protest the name of the Washington Redskins, November, 2013.
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The Modern, a debut novel centred on an Australian researcher at New York’s MoMA, muses on modern art and relationships – riffing off MoMA artists like Grace Hartigan and Nan Goldin.
Uluru Dialogues leader Megan Davis, right, during a recent community forum about the Indigenous voice referendum.
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A new book sheds light on the moral frameworks of human governance among our First Nations, showing how we can heal as a nation by living with each other and the natural world.
Today there are few countries in the Indo-Pacific which share so much in common, in both values and interests, than India and Australia. Andrew Charlton’s new book examines the possibilities.
The new Quarterly Essay weaves personal history and detailed policy analysis, examining the unintended consequences of the NDIS, and how we can best realise the scheme’s original intent.
A new book delves into the species that live in, on and near Melbourne’s Yarra: from the millions of humans who rely on it for water to creatures such as owls, wallabies and flying foxes.
Jessica Kirkness’s grandparents, Jessica Kirkness, Sam Drummond.
Jessica Kirkman introduces readers to her Deaf grandparents’ experience – and to Deaf culture – in her memoir. And Sam Drummond recalls growing up with pseudoachondroplasia (a form of dwarfism) in his.
Online reading communities have been around for a while but none of them have captured the attention of readers, publishers and retailers quite like BookTok.
Perception and reality collide when a mother and daughter are compelled to live in the shadow of a monstrous artist.
Photographs published in 1876 designed to prove that Roger Tichborne (left) and the ‘Claimant’, (right) were one and the same, as per the central blended image.
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Zadie Smith evokes the complexities of race, class and colonisation in her novel about a scandal that titillated Victorian England.
Worker on a banana plantation owned by Chiquita near Siquirres, Costa Rica, February 2001. In 2007, Chiquita pleaded guilty to funding known terrorists to protect their Colombian plantations.
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