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Just in time for last-minute gifts: Guardian Australia critics and staff pick out the best books of the year, featuring Helen Garner, Dominic Amerena, Evelyn Araluen and more

The broadcaster becomes president of Humanists UK in the new year. She talks about juggling TV work with single motherhood, losing her husband, and why she’d rather have specialised in acting

A couple's disastrous experience with reclaimed wood flooring led to safety hazards and a lesson in the critical importance of detailed contracts.

Sofie Laguna’s fifth novel for adults draws on the ancient idea of a land to which the dead must journey and reside. This landscape has been depicted many times. It is associated with the classical myth of the ferryman Charon and his barge across the River Styx. It evokes the…

Cathy Tyson and Patrick Robinson dazzle in this knockout production of Edward Albee’s verbally violent play, full of misogynistic one-liners and tarnished souls

INTERVIEW: Next month, the musician releases a cover album of songs by his hero Kurt Weill. He talks to Jude Rogers about life under Trump, hanging out with Marianne Faithfull, and why he’ll never criticise Britain over Brexit again

Pointless and witless, this atrociously acted ripoff of The Hills Have Eyes should be cast back into the water

Martha, 30, an analyst meets Jack, 26, a primary school teacher

Merope Mills says new rapid review service should be available to maternity services ‘to give women a greater voice’