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The Miles Franklin judges described Siang Lu’s Ghost Cities, winner of the 2025 award, as “a grand farce and a haunting meditation on diaspora”. To my mind, it is perhaps the funniest novel ever to have won the Miles Franklin. In the last decade, its closest competitor would be Melissa…

When it was revealed that Meta had used a dataset of pirated books to train its latest AI model, Llama, Australian authors were furious. Works by writers including Liane Moriarty, Tim Winton, Melissa Lucashenko, Christos Tsiolkas and many others had been scraped from the online shadow library LibGen without permission.

This article mentions ongoing colonial violence towards Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

A new novel by the Miles Franklin winner is always an event and her latest arrives at a tumultuous time in history

The latest novel from the author of Too Much Lip splits its time between the 1800s and 2024 and provides a masterclass in humour, flair and generosity

Each month, Guardian Australia editors and critics pick the upcoming titles they have already devoured – or can’t wait to get their hands on

There is something familiar about Aunty June, the protagonist of Julie Janson’s Madukka the River Serpent.

Trees – majestic, mysterious and, as we are beginning to understand, wonderfully sophisticated and complex – play a powerful role in the stories we tell.

Over the past decade, Aunty Barbara Nicholson has made the journey to Junee Correctional Centre more than 300 times. She hopes that by helping inmates explore their ideas through poetry, she's changing things from the inside.