Books

J.K Rowling announced she will serialise an online fairy tale “about truth and the abuse of power” in thirty-four daily, free instalments.

Tara June Winch takes out three NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, including People’s Choice, Book of the Year and the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction.

Kate M. Kruimink, a Tasmanian author and writer, has been awarded the 2020 Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award for her novel ‘A Treacherous Country’.

Michelle Obama kicked off the series on Monday, reading The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axl Scheffler to children online.

Jess Hill won the 2020 Stella Prize and tells Jessie Tu how she sought to undercover the ‘concealed truth’ of domestic abuse in Australia.

While COVID-19 has irrevocably changed the landscape, the relevance of See What You Made Me Do has only, tragically, gained importance in this time.

Dolly Parton is set to launch a weekly series in which she reads children’s books to online audiences at bedtime.

Professor Lisa Harvey-Smith, is passionate about getting girls interested in STEM from an early age. Gender stereotyping starts early.

Here are four fiction recommendations we have for your reading list as we look ahead to the precarious future. Get some tea brewing!

Julia Gillard is writing a new book with economist, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, on Women and Leadership, that will be published in July 2020.

The longlist for the 2020 Stella Prize has been unveiled, with 12 excellent books up for the $50,000 prize celebrating female writing.

Jessie Tu shares five must-read Summer books, including Jia Tolentino, Ann Patchett and Booker winner Bernardine Evaristo.