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Your weekend reading

Guardian Australia's weekly blogpost guiding you through this week's books coverage
  • James Franco

    This week in books: censorship, literary spats and James Franco's novel

    In Guardian Australia's weekly books wrap: Clive Stafford Smith on the books banned from Guantanamo Bay, the best literary punch-ups of 2013, and James Franco's novel reviewed
  • The novelist Donal Ryan

    This week in books: Donal Ryan, NaNoWritMo and the Odyssey

    In Guardian Australia's weekly books wrap: the Guardian First Book award, writing 50,000 words in a month, and what Homer can tell us about returning soldiers
  • Doris Lessing in 2004

    This week in books: Doris Lessing, Alan Moore, and Chuck Palahniuk

    In Guardian Australia's weekly books wrap: Sergio De La Pava's latest reviewed, advertising's slippery euphemisms, and should there be a good sex prize?
  • Christos 3

    This week in books: Christos Tsiolkas, Hannah Kent, and Terry Eagleton on Morrissey

    Guardian Australia's weekly books-wrap: Burial Rites is nominated for the Guardian first book award and we talk to the author of Barracuda
  • ‘Deft’: Zadie Smith at the Women’s Prize for Fiction in June this year.

    This week in books: Zadie Smith, 100 years of the crossword, and Chris Womersley on Melbourne's Fitzroy

    In Guardian Australia's weekly books wrap: a short story by Tony Birch, reflections on ageing, and all this week's reviews
  • Susan Hill

    This week in books: Susan Hill, Alex Miller, and Seamus Heaney’s last poem

    In Guardian Australia's weekly books wrap: Woman in Black author Susan Hill on Elizabeth Catton, Alex Miller on writing for a living, and an ode to letter writing
  • Eleanor Catton the luminaries man booker prize

    This week in books: Eleanor Catton wins the Booker, and new Donna Tartt

    Guardian Australia's weekly book wrap: Eleanor Catton on New Zealand, Jeanette Winterson on fairytales and Neil Gaiman on reading for pleasure
  • Alice Munro

    This week in books: Alice Munro, Dave Eggers, and Bridget Jones returns

    Guardian Australia's weekly books wrap: the Nobel prize in literature, The Circle reviewed and the singleton is back
  • Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan in Le Week-End, written by Hanif Kureishi

    This week in books: James Bond, the Beatles and in praise of adultery

    William Boyd's Solo and a major new Beatles biography reviewed, Hanif Kureishi on adultery, and Jon McGregor shuns email
  • Stephen King at his home in Maine, US

    This week in books: Richard Flanagan, Stephen King, William Boyd on Bond

    Guardian Australia's guide to the week in books: Richard Flanagan interviewed, Stephen King reviewed, and what would Penguin's founder have made of Amazon?
  • Novel novels … Six books that resist generic categories and divert from formal expectations

    This week in books: Readers in residence, urban explorers, and the Booker prize

    Guardian Australia's books round-up: Australian writers on their favourite artworks, all the essential reviews, and is this the end of the Man Booker Prize?
  • bono on seamus heaney

    This week in books: tributes to Seamus Heaney, Tony Birch on Aboriginal writing, and Margaret Atwood

    Bethanie Blanchard: Tony Birch at the Melbourne Writers Festival, reaction to the death of Seamus Heaney and all this week's reviews in Guardian Australia's round-up of the week in books

  • jim crace

    This week in books: Jim Crace and Fiction in 2043

    Bethanie Blanchard: Should writers give readers a year off? And what might the literary future look like? Plus our podcast from the Edinburgh International Books Festival

  • Byron Bay

    Your weekend reading: Claire Messud, Byron Bay Writers’ Festival, and Hannibal’s birthday

    Bethanie Blanchard: Guardian Australia's guide to the week in books: what to see at Byron Bay, and 25 years of The Silence of the Lambs

  • Green popular penguins

    Your weekend reading: the best of crime fiction, the Booker longlist and how to read literature

    Bethanie Blanchard: We look at the Booker longlist, choose our favourite 50 classic crime novels, and review all the week's important releases

  • JK Rowling

    Your weekend reading: JK Rowling, literary prizes and Australian short fiction

    Bethanie Blanchard: From JK Rowling's crime fiction The Cuckoo's Calling, to six neglected works you should have read and the joy of Australian short fiction

  • A statue of Jane Austen's romantic hero Mr Darcy in The Serpentine

    Your weekend reading: hoaxes and imitations, and a 12ft tall Mr Darcy

    Bethanie Blanchard: Your guide to the best of this week's books from Guardian Australia: from who edited Shakespeare to "a meeting" between Dickens and Dostoyevsky. Plus all this week's reviews

  • Irish musician Bono arrives at 10 Downin

    Your weekend reading: Spy novels, SF for beginners and Bono

    Help choose our reading group for July, and catch up with the best spy and SF novels in Guardian Australia's guide to the best of our books coverage. Plus, all the week's reviews

  • Big Sleep cover design by Andrew Cadywould

    Your weekend reading: Michelle de Kretser, Stephen King, David Caute and Raymond Chandler

    This week in books: We talk to Miles Franklin winner Michelle de Kretser, reread Stephen King and redesign classic Chandler covers. Plus all this week's review

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