The omniscient narrator is alive and well in fiction. Kim Scott's most recent novel uses a collective narrative voice that encompasses the landscape as well as the human.
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In her fragmentary family memoir, Cynthia Banham interweaves narratives of war and migration with her own traumatic plane crash - ultimately reclaiming her identity in the process.
Les Murray's signature style was a potent mix of ordinary language, specialist vocabulary, and eccentric syntax. His poetry made us see things anew.
Political books touches a certain chord in South African society that makes them bestsellers.
Looking nostalgically to the past, a young architect sought to revive the building as a bulwark to the uncertainty of the Industrial Revolution.
A legal expert looks at the issue of robot rights and what makes us human.
Debut memoir The Erratics possesses a rare honesty, exploding socially sanctioned ideas about mothers and families.
With advancements in technology, libraries are offering much more than something to read. A library researcher offers a sampling of some unexpected items that library patrons can check out these days.
Here’s to the good/bad women leading the world of fiction.
An emerging genre of fiction in France is providing an unlikely brand of escapism.
Forget challenges, adults should be taking a leaf out of children's books when it comes to their reading habits.
Sharing a book together doesn't stop being important once a child learns to read.
A collection of prison letters provides a peek into the suffering of South African liberation hero, Robert Sobukwe.
Here is a small list of pivotal texts by African American women from the past century.
Shared reading has many benefits. Among them, it can help your child develop a bigger vocabulary.
The strange story of the author one of 2018's bestselling novels reveals a lot about some careers at the top end of publishing.
Children from minority groups rarely see themselves reflected in the books they read. This can negatively impact their sense of identity and their literacy levels.
For decades, advertisers and marketers struggled to predict the consumption of leisure products such as movies and books. Now, big data reveals how people really spend their leisure time.
Are the stacks of books in your library still alive? Why keep them if they are not? Why does our attachment to the printed word not waver in the face of its digital counterpart?
If schools and policy-makers want to boost children's literacy, they should invest in teacher librarians.
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Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies, Monash University
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Lecturer, School of Design, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor in Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Lecturer in Creative Writing, The Open University
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Lecturer of English, University of Liverpool
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Jane Messer is a Friend of The Conversation.
Associate Professor in Creative Writing, Macquarie University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics, Monash University
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Director of the Centre for Creative and Cultural Research, University of Canberra
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Professor, UCL
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Professor in Publishing Studies, University of Stirling
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Professor of Writing, University of Technology Sydney
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Emeritus Professor of Australian Literature, University of Sydney
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Director, Monash University Publishing, Monash University
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Professor in English Literature, University of Liverpool
