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Debra Adelaide wins 2019 Steele Rudd Award Australian author and literary veteran, Debra Adelaide, won big at the 2019 Queensland Literary Award, taking home $10,000 and the Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection. Debra won with her 2019 novella, Zebra; a collection of subversive …

Read the first 3 chapters of The Best Kind of Beautiful by Frances Whiting Frances Whiting is one of Australia’s best known and favourite columnists. For more than twenty years her weekly Sunday Mail column has engaged readers in the highs, lows and the wonderful of the every …

Happy World Vegan Day 2019! 🥑 World Vegan Day is an annual event celebrated by vegans around the world every 1 November. World Vegan Day celebrates the benefits that veganism has for humans, animals and the environment alike! Whether you’re a full-time vegan, vegetarian, meat-free …

Spooky Halloween reads to devour 🎃 ‘It’s Halloween, everyone’s entitled to one good scare’ –Halloween (1978) On the spookiest day of the year, you only have two options: trick or treatin’ or reading something that scares the living daylights out of you! To get into …

Read 5 lovey-dovey facts about Australian birds thanks to Bird Bonds by Gisela Kaplan Based on a wealth of original research and complemented by illustrations and colour photographs, Bird Bonds is a valuable resource and a beguiling insight into the world of the birds around us. Did …