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11 Must-Read Books About Women and Mother Nature Going Head-to-Head

We rounded up the best books about heroines facing off with Mother Nature herself.

Marie Claire

‘We want our stories to be told’: NSW Labor pledges $3.2m to support writing and literature amid AI onslaught

Stories Matter strategy responds to urgent pressures such as declining reading rates and growing impact of digital media on publishing, minister says

The Guardian - AU

8 Divinely Erotic Books to Kick Off Your Hot Nun Summer

With her new memoir, 'The Dry Season,' out now, Melissa Febos shares the surprisingly sexy books she read during her year of intentional celibacy.

Marie Claire

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Australian authors group give every federal politician five books to encourage nuance in Middle East debate

Exclusive: Group of more than 90 including writers Tim Winton and Charlotte Wood have paid for every federal senator and MP to receive curated package

The Guardian - AU

The Booker Prize Shortlist 2024: The stories being considered for the top literary prize

Familiarise yourself with this year’s shortlisted novels to discover your new favourite yarn

Evening Standard

‘I think I’m on the mend’: Queen attends Booker Prize reception after illness

Camilla congratulated the six shortlisted authors at Clarence House in her first public engagement since she contracted the seasonal bug.

Evening Standard

Booker prize 2024: and the winner is... you, the reader

The judges have a hard task at this week’s Booker prize ceremony with five of the six shortlisted books worthy winners, though Percival Everett’s James – a retelling of Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn – is the title to put your money on

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Booker prize 2024: the six shortlisted books reviewed by our experts

From a longlist of 13, six novels have been shortlisted for the 2024 Booker prize. Our academics review the finalists ahead of the announcement of the winner on November 12.

The Conversation

Rapture by Emily Maguire review – tale of medieval female pope feels fresh and intimate

This sensual account of a woman seeking knowledge and God in a man’s world brings us close to matters of faith and the body

The Guardian - AU

'Feast of fiction': spring renewal for Canberra Writers Festival

This year's festival has more fiction than politics.

The Canberra Times

Charlotte Wood on the Booker prize: ‘The global attention is like nothing I’ve seen’

The author is the first Australian to be shortlisted for the $98,000 prize since Richard Flanagan won in 2014

The Guardian - AU

First Aust writer in a decade makes Booker shortlist

Stone Yard Devotional author Charlotte Wood has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the first Australian writer since Richard Flanagan to make the list.

AAP

Percival Everett and Rachel Kushner make the 2024 Booker prize shortlist

The six finalists include five books by women – the highest number of female writers shortlisted in the prize’s 55-year history

The Guardian - UK

Each of the six Booker novels does something unique

As the Guardian’s fiction editor, I’ve been writing about the Booker prize for years. Now, as a judge, I’ve seen behind the curtain

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Evening Standard

Women dominate this year's Booker Prize shortlist ahead of £50,000 winner being announced

It is a record breaking year for women writers

The Guardian - UK

Three British novelists make Booker 2024 longlist among ‘cohort of global voices’

Hisham Matar, Sarah Perry and Samantha Harvey in running for prize, along with the first Native American and Dutch authors ever to be nominated

The Guardian - UK

Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood review – a quiet novel of immense power

This story of a woman retreating from the world to a convent in New South Wales considers guilt, forgiveness and human connection

Newcastle Herald

Experience the taste of becoming a writer with new innovative course

'This new course is all about fostering a love of writing.'

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Homes & Gardens

How to light a closet without wiring – energy efficient ideas

Incorporating wireless lighting solutions illuminates your closet without the need for complex wiring while adding modern convenience to your daily routine

The Conversation

'What can we afford to lose?' Charlotte Wood's new novel poses big questions about goodness, purpose and sacrifice

Charlotte Wood’s Stone Yard Devotional tells the story of a woman who abandons her city life to live in a rural religious compound. In the vein of her award-winning The Natural Way of Things, Wood continues to explore relationships between women in isolated groups, and more broadly, tensions between the…

The Guardian - AU

Charlotte Wood: ‘It was like I had acid poured on my whole life … but in a good way’

As Charlotte Wood was writing her latest book, she got cancer. As did her two sisters. But the acclaimed novelist is determined that her work is not despairing

The Guardian - AU

Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood review – a masterful novel of quiet force

Set at a rural Australian monastery, with a minimal plot and a looming climate catastrophe, this is a book of introspection – and of despair

The Guardian - AU

The Weekend review – Charlotte Wood stage adaptation tells of love, loss and ageing

Warmth, humour and a heartbreaking dog ground this new play about three women in their 70s dealing with the death of a friend

Daily Mirror

Darts walk-on girl claims players want them back “all the time” after brutal PDC axing

PDC chiefs stunned players and fans when they suddenly announced that they were axing walk-on models in in 2018 while trying to make the sport more inclusive for the whole family

Manchester Evening News

Woman 'punched in the head' in VIP section at Ne-Yo concert as she brands event 'worst she's ever been to'

Charlotte Wood paid over £350 for four tickets to the concert at Bowler's Exhibition Centre in Trafford

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