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Compared to the rest of the world, income inequality is not particularly high in Australia, nor is it getting much worse – until you include housing.

The industrial revolution was one of the biggest cataclysms in European history. Between 1790 and 1850, the countryside rapidly depopulated. Huge masses of people flooded into cities for factory work, living cheek-by-jowl in unhygienic slums.

The Booker-winning author on Vietnam war stories and the brutality of Jane Austen

NONFICTION: A fascinating biography of two hugely popular — but now forgotten — authors of the 19th century.

The doctor turned comedy writer on being inspired by Alan Bennett and comforted by David Sedaris

IN the summer of 2018 at the Tron Theatre in Glasgow, the young, Scottish actor and playwright Isobel McArthur and her ensemble took to the stage…

Catherine Robertson on novels women want to read (and write)

There’s a subgenre of teen rom-coms that modernize everything from William Shakespeare to Jane Austen. On Hulu, the movie “Rosaline” flips that idea back around, giving modern rom-com tropes and dialogue to the original 16th-century setting of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet.” I mean, why not?

Copy of novel sold for £375,000