The shopping centres, secondary schools and backyards of Perth’s western and southern suburbs form the backdrop to tales of the cruelties of female adolescence and adulthood in West Girls, the …
Now that we’ve all had experience with large language models, their limitations are all too visible. Yes, they can write. But their prose doesn’t explode in the mind like the …
If you’ve visited a bookshop in the last few years, you’ll have spotted a “sad girl novel”, distinguished as much by its distinctive cover — most often featuring a young, …
Previously best known for her award-winning fantasy series The Poppy War Trilogy, Rebecca F. Kuang scored a major hit when her fourth novel, Babel, was released last year. The historical …
“Talking about sports is a way of talking about life,” writes Ellen van Neerven. Indeed, the first non-fiction book from the acclaimed First Nations author is a wide-ranging and highly …