Books

What I would love is fiction in which a woman’s existence is not destroyed by the end of the story. Where a woman’s desires do not impair her.

The results of the 2018 Stella Count are in and it looks like counting has worked its magic. The Count is now running 50/50.

Melbourne’s Wheeler Centre has announced an extraordinary lineup of feminist writers for the inaugural Broadside Festival, happening in November.

Ruby Hamad’s book White Tears/Brown Scars is a powerful assessment that contains some ‘tough & unpalatable’ truths we need to confront.

In her book Pain and Prejudice, Gabrielle Jackson explores how women’s pain is viewed and treated, not just by the medical profession, but by wider society.

The authors of a new book: ‘It’s not you, it’s the workplace: Women’s conflict at work and the bias that built it’ confirms women aren’t broken.

One of the world’s most beloved writers, Toni Morrison, dubbed a ‘magician of langauge’ has died in New York, aged 88, after complications of pneumonia.

Three Women will leave you inspired by the feminine psyche but also deeply concerned by how little we can think of ourselves.

Lucashenko’s work is a powerful response to the entrenched racism that still shapes Australian culture. This year, her sixth novel wins Miles Franklin Award

There is no shortage of women’s voices in the literary world right now and we’re recommending four books from four, stellar female writers.

Fake is a startling true story of Stephanie Wood falling in love with a man called Joe who wasn’t an architect or sheep farmer but a con artist & fantasist.

Four years of intensive journalistic investigation have produced See What You Made Me Do, a book by Jess Hill about power, control & abuse.