Amanda Smith·Nov 5What Australia’s Favourite Books Tell Us About OurselvesFrom Cloudstreet to A Fortunate Life, Australia’s most-loved books reveal a fascination with ordinary lives shaped by extraordinary…
Amanda Smith·Oct 24Is Australian Literature Overlooking One of Its Most Important New Novels?Why Outback Odyssey deserves a place in the conversation about Australia’s literary future
Amanda Smith·Oct 18I Asked Google AI to Recommend Australian Historical Fiction. Here’s What Happened.Six anonymous literary searches, three recommendations, and a revealing glimpse into how artificial intelligence is changing the way…
Amanda Smith·Sep 25The Australian story of a 17-year-old Yorkshire migrant: How Jimmy Brown inspired Paul…This article originally appeared in MSN on 18 Sept 2026
Amanda Smith·Sep 2Father’s Journey Across the World Inspires Australian Novel Now Finding an International AudienceThis article first Appeared in the US National Times SYDNEY, NSW, AUSTRALIA, September 1, 2026
Harrison Engstrom·Jul 20“We Have Trainspotting at Home” — Reviewing He Died With A Felafel In His Hand 32 Years On.I absolutely adore Richard Lowenstein’s 2001 Gen Xer comedy, He Died With A Felafel In His Hand. A movie that showed me the horrors of…
Joedel Peñaranda·Jun 30The Book That Taught My English Class, and Me, How to ListenThoughts on Catching Teller Crow after using it as a source text in Term 2
Richard Swan·Apr 212026 Thumbnail Review #12 The Children’s Bach by Helen GarnerSplinty, spiky: the prose, the structure, the situations, the characters all match up. This 1984 novella by Helen Garner, set in Melbourne…
InNEW LITERARY SOCIETYbySal Gallaher·Mar 20, 2024Secrets of World’s Writers — Discovering Sandie Docker‘A Sandie Docker book is like a cup of tea and a biscuit, it’s warm on the inside, snuggly, sweet and lots of fun. It touches the heart…A response icon5A response icon5
