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Cher reveals the best advice she ever received, in her new memoir
Lucille Ball gave the singer some sage advice about Sonny Bono – something Cher reveals she paid forward to Tina Turner.
- by Nathan Smith
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Scurrilous gossip, literary rivalry and Jim Morrison’s manhood
This dual biography of novelist Joan Didion and artist and 1960s It girl Eve Babitz dredges up hot Hollywood gossip of the highest order.
- by Cameron Woodhead
Eight new books: Instant cult fiction, Aussie paranormal happenings and a murder mystery
Our reviewers cast their eyes over new fiction and non-fiction releases
- by Cameron Woodhead and Steven Carroll
Richard Flanagan follows a long tradition of knocking back awards
Authors have proven you can take the cash and still keep your integrity, but there’s a long history of many refusing award money.
- by Jane Sullivan
A puma prowls a mysterious wilderness in this dark Aussie western
Robbie Arnott’s new novel explores what happens when humans and animals shape up against one other.
- by Molly Murn
Sign of decline? Macquarie names its word of the year
Macquarie Dictionary’s choice just about sums up how we’re all feeling.Â
- by Thomas Mitchell
Unplugged from radio, I have big plans for retirement
This time next week, I’ll be a man of leisure. One who golfs, and reads the Odyssey.
- by Richard Glover
After this blunder, I’m now looking sideways at every word I presume to know
It was a query from an editor that made me reconsider everything.
- by David Astle
‘I thought, geez, this is a happy story’: Helen Garner on her footy book
The acclaimed writer spent a season watching her grandson play football. The result is a story of love in the face of time’s passing.
- by Jake Niall
Noni Hazlehurst on the splendours and miseries of the actor’s lot
The beloved Australian actor and Play School host has written a special kind of memoir.
- by Peter Craven
Richard Flanagan knocks back $100k literature prize over sponsor’s fossil fuel links
Flanagan was awarded the Baillie Gifford Prize for his latest book at a ceremony in London.
- by Lachlan Abbott