Books

Anita Desai may be one of India’s best-known living writers, but she appears uncomfortable with the title.

Minutes after finishing High Sobriety – Jill Stark’s memoir about her year without alcohol – I attended a birthday party…for a bar.

Anna Goldsworthy’s new book Welcome to Your New Life documents the wonder and anxiety of bringing her first child into the world.

When the shortlist for the Miles Franklin award was unveiled earlier this week, there was just one thing missing – men.

The newly launched program for the 2013 Sydney Writers’ Festival includes a strong line-up of female thinkers and authors, with festival director Jemma Birrell producing a program that includes a number of sessions focused on feminism and women’s rights.

Michelle McQuaid’s book explores one of the perennial conversations we have about work but never at work and only very rarely with work colleagues: how to deal with a bad boss.

Clare Mann’s Communicate is the kind of book one buys when cranky – and finishes reading ready to use that angry energy in a good way.

The past 10 or so years have seen slow and steady progress in the Australian understanding of perinatal depression.

As the digital generation grows up, they do so with access to endless information online and the debates about how to handle some of the world’s biggest ethical issues – such as climate change – raging around them.

Public speaking fills plenty of otherwise accomplished people with dread.

*Spoiler alert: this is not intended as a straight review and I do refer to key plot points in this analysis.

The tangy residue of Twisties on small fingers.