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Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Imogen Dewey

Writers, politicians, and activists in Ireland, often an outlier in the West on the Middle East war, call for peace.

The long read: Andrew Wylie is agent to an extraordinary number of the planet’s biggest authors. His knack for making highbrow writers very rich helped to define a literary era – but is his reign now coming to an end?

Stories about flawed young women have been favoured by the publishing industry for some time now. Bad Girl novels proliferated in the wake of Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train, while Sad Girl novels have evolved from the comic haplessness of Bridget Jones in the 1990s, to more…

The unnerving novel that earned two major prize nominations rattles expectations of how stories are often told

Sally Rooney, Ian Williams, and Lauren Groff are just a few of the contemporary authors avoiding quotation marks for dialogue

A statement cited increased costs and removal of UK state funding as the magazine, which featured writers including Paul Murray, Caleb Azumah Nelson and Sally Rooney, is to consider its future

From a nine-year-old misfit to Sally Rooney writing a children’s book, Skin Pigeon’s characters are pitched at a sharp angle to the real world

Sophie, 26, a product manager, meets Alex, 26, who works in property finance

The novelist and gal-dem founder on the album she can’t stop listening to, an action film to shout about, and the perfect family-run restaurant

They interrupt narrative and disrupt plot – no wonder novelists have been slow to warm to mobile phones. But a new generation is putting technology at the heart of their work