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Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge was a favourite when my son was small. Now my father’s in a nursing home – and Mem Fox’s book has new significance

Finding herself in charge of her sick husband’s clipper, a self-taught working-class teenager overcame storms, icebergs and a disloyal first mate to get her ship to safety

A father and son move to the Patagonian woods – but intensity wanes when a search for home becomes an obsessive quest for revenge

WORLD BOOK DAY 2026: A drastic drop in reading for pleasure has prompted a national campaign to get Britain to fall back in love with books. Leading authors, including Helen Fielding, Salman Rushdie and Tom Fletcher, tell Annabel Nugent how to bring back your inner bookworm on World Book Day

Federal police flag further changes possible after footage released of alleged bomb being thrown

Pam Stepnick’s memoir, ‘F*** the Pauls: Written by their Mother,’ includes personal accounts of raising two internet stars

Novelist Megha Majumdar has won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction for her book “A Guardian and a Thief.”

Author Shelley Read is amazed by the global success of her debut novel, “Go as a River.”

Miles Franklin-winner Alexis Wright pays tribute to the first book that visualised this powerful ancestral being from an Indigenous imagination

The author, whose novel is set in the '90s magazine era, tells us the books she thinks capture a similar energy.

With new books by Maggie O'Farrell, Tayari Jones, and more coming soon, hitting your reading goal has never been easier.