Australian books
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Morris Gleitzman, beloved children's author, meets his new editors – children‘It’s hard to select the stories because all of them are so good,’ says a primary student editor of Early Harvest magazine -
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Leigh Sales on her year of horrors: ‘I want to look this right in the face’Interviewing people about the worst day of their life helped the ABC journalist and author face her own mortality, loss and resilience
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'They'll never hang a woman': Louisa Collins thought she'd be sparedThe botched execution of the last woman hanged in NSW stuck with author Janet Lee. Her novel imagines those last moments -
Liane Moriarty, Fiona Patten, Krissy Kneen: books to read in OctoberAustralia’s best reads over the next month include Peter Mares on the housing crisis, Rick Morton’s acclaimed memoir, and Gabrielle Chan’s journey through the politics and people of country Australia -
The Magic Pudding: 100 years of Norman Lindsay's classic – in picturesNorman Lindsay wrote The Magic Pudding reportedly to settle an argument with his friend Bertram Stevens, claiming children preferred to read about food rather than fairiesGallery
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Miles Franklin 2018: Michelle de Kretser wins $60,000 award for second timeThe Life to Come author says that even in tumultuous political times, literature has an important role to play



The Magic Pudding can still make us laugh even after 100 years