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It’s increasingly rare for us to respectfully disagree these days. Book clubs invite us to do just that – while making time for a good read.
The winners of this year’s awards include celebrated novelist Michelle de Kretser, journalist Rick Morton on Robodebt and poet David Brooks.
The six inventive books shortlisted for the 2025 Miles Franklin explore ideas of identity, self and nationhood – and play with both ideas and form.
Michelle de Kretser has won the Stella Prize for the first time. Her winning novel, Theory & Practice, is currently longlisted for the Miles Franklin.
This year’s Stella Prize shortlist is a testament to the importance of truthfulness, painstaking research and the urgency of confronting shame.
We’ve invited writers, from fields as diverse as wildlife ecology, politics and literature, to nominate their best books of 2024. And this year, the Books & Ideas team share their own picks, too.
Theory & Practice is a potent reminder that the purpose of art is not always distinct from the purpose of life: generating imperfect pathways towards empathy.
Jessica Zhan Mei Yu’s witty, ‘effervescent’ debut novel follows a Sylvia-Plath-loving young Malaysian-Australian writer’s journey to ‘the heart of empire’ in the UK.
The five shortlisted novels share various threads concern – childhood stories, themes of migration and male violence – but are infused with a sense of play and measured optimism.
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Associate Professor, English, School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer, Discipline of English and Writing, University of Sydney
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Distinguished Professor Emerita of Creative Practice, Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Canberra
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Lecturer in World Literature (including Australian literature), The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, University of Technology Sydney
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Emeritus Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Murdoch University
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Senior Lecturer, Writing, Department of Media and Communication, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor of Business and Society, University of Technology Sydney
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Emeritus Strategic Professor in Palaeontology, Flinders University
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Dennis Altman is a Friend of The Conversation.
Vice Chancellor's Fellow and Professorial Fellow, Institute for Human Security and Social Change, La Trobe University
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Creative Writing Lecturer, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, The Centre for Social Policy Research, Australian National University
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Lecturer in Government, Jeff Bleich Centre for Democracy and Disruptive Technologies, Flinders University
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Professor, Chair of Australian Literature, The University of Western Australia
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Lecturer in Creative Writing, The University of Queensland