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On Shirley Hazzard is a vibrant and personal tribute in which the Miles Franklin Award-winning no...

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Tom Loxley, an Indian-Australian professor, is less concerned with finishing his book on Henry Ja...

A flamboyant beauty who once partied with the Prince of Wales and who now, in her seventh decade,...

Writing with poignancy and mesmerizing detail, Michelle de Kretser has penned a haunting tale set...

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'It's 1986, and 'beautiful, radical ideas' are in the air. The narrator of Theory & Practice, a y...

In a corner of south-western France, a young rose grower nurtures a private passion to breed an e...

Laura travels the world before returning to Sydney, where she works for a publisher of travel gui...

The place is Ceylon, the time the 1930s. Set amid tea plantations, corruption and the backwash of...

Tom Loxley is holed up in a cottage in the bush, trying to finish his book on Henry James, when h...