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My favourite books are in Amazon’s Big Deal Days sale: Top picks to read before the end of 2025

Whatever your literary catnip may be, it’s time to add steamy, intellectual or spooky books to your winter reading stack

Evening Standard · Oct 7, 2025

The 10 Best Satire Films of the 21st Century

The joke's on us.

The Mary Sue · Sep 29, 2025

‘We were obedient our entire lives’: the nuns who broke back into their convent

Three nuns fled a care home to return to the convent, defying church orders and gaining global support – but their future remains unknown

The Guardian - UK · Sep 26, 2025

Hailstones Fell without Rain by Natalia Figueroa Barroso review – a funny and tender debut

This exuberant novel, set in western Sydney and Uruguay, celebrates matrilineal connection over three generations of one family

The Guardian - AU · Aug 28, 2025

Paul Kelly farewells Joe in How to Make Gravy sequel

One of Australia's most celebrated artists has released a sequel to Christmas anthem How to Make Gravy, almost three decades after its release.

AAP · Aug 14, 2025

Rita Wrote a Letter: Paul Kelly’s sequel to How to Make Gravy is an affectionate goodbye to Joe

Almost 30 years after Kelly released his Christmas classic, we finally learn what became of his cast of characters

The Guardian - AU · Aug 13, 2025

The Booker Prize Longlist 2025 is out! Here are the novels to read before the winner is crowned

The long-awaited Booker Dozen has finally been announced. We decode what all the novels are about, and where to buy them

Evening Standard · Jul 29, 2025

Friday essay: ‘An oasis in the desert’ – Jackie Huggins reflects on her deep history with Carnarvon Gorge

Ngya Bidjara/Birri Gubba Juru marra. My name is Jackie Huggins. I am the mother of John. I am also the daughter of Rita, and Albert and Rose are my grandparents on my mother’s side. My father is Jack Huggins. My grandparents are John Henry Huggins the third, and Fanny: all…

The Conversation · Jul 10, 2025

Six women thought they found love online. It was a married father of 2 scamming them out of millions

A man from Nigeria pleaded guilty in a $2.5 million romance scam that devastated six victims.

Fortune · Jul 6, 2025

You be the judge: should my housemate chip in with mowing the lawn?

Eleanor wants to enjoy a garden that isn’t overgrown. Raheem argues it’s the landlord’s responsibility to maintain it. You decide whose argument doesn’t cut it

The Guardian - UK · Apr 26, 2025