Books

From Julia Banks, to Julia Gillard and Kate Ellis, memoirs have become a critical way to highlight the ongoing problems faced by women in politics.

In Bri Lee’s recently released third book, Who Gets To Be Smart, she interrogates educational privilege in Australia, writing about intersection of class, gender and religion.

In her new book, Everything Harder Than Everyone Else, Jenny Valentish asks people who push their bodies to extremes why and how they do what they do.

Michael Warner’s The Boys’ Club has unearthed some shocking claims about the treatment of women in the AFL’s administration.

Jacqueline Bublitz talks about her stunning debut novel, Before You Knew My Name, published by Allen & Unwin.

Maddy Tyers was just eight years old when she first began to develop an unhealthy relationship with food and toxic behaviours around eating.

Why do stories matter? Because they must. Because story is the voice of history and the voice of futurity.

Simon & Schuster CFO Sheila Vijeyarasa explores how she learnt to deal with failure when Fifty Shades of Grey suddenly underperformed.

Last night, the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards were announced, with 11 of the 13 awards won by women writers.

Australian novelist Evie Wyld has won this the 2021 Stella Prize with her third gothic novel, The Bass Rock.

H. Hayek’s new book “Huda and Me”, follows two Lebanese-Australian kids who decide to escape their babysitter by running away to Lebanon

Brittany Higgins has signed a major book deal to write a memoir detailing her experiences working inside parliament house.