The six inventive books shortlisted for the 2025 Miles Franklin explore ideas of identity, self and nationhood – and play with both ideas and form.

A Texan fighting a family curse for love, a pregnant preteen defying expectations, two sisters fleeing north for freedom and ...

LaFaye Baker's new book encourages young girls to voice their experiences and address childhood trauma with confidence.

When you're a naturally giving person, it's easy to fall into self-destructive patterns of over-giving in your relationships.

In her powerful, revelatory new book, Mathelinda Nabugodi performs what she calls “an act of historical recovery,” ...

Hannah Pittard’s novel, inspired by her husband’s infidelity, is the latest novel to entertainingly dissect female dissatisfaction.

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Toshikazu Kawaguchi's 'Before Your Memory Fades' is the third novel in his celebrated 'Before the Coffee Gets Cold' series, originally written for the stage and later adapted into prose. With each ...

Inclusion is not framed as a charitable outreach, a performative gesture, a political imperative, or a ministry niche. It ...

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What is best in his books is his sense of the soil, of the unspoken drama of work or conflict on the earth. In two new regional novels of the old West, strength again flows from the unspoken.