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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.

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

Rather than presenting a disability as an obstacle, life writing can explore the joys, frustrations and creativity of living with disability.

“For the first 22 years of my life, I wasn’t encouraged to express what I wanted,” A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing author Jessie Tu writes.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

In her memoir Breaking Badly published by Affirm Press Georgie Dent explores how she suffered a nervous breakdown at age 25 and rebuilt her life.