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Booker Prize 2019: Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo are joint winners
Evaristo is first black woman to win prize; Handmaid’s Tale sequel is second win for Atwood
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Donald Clarke runs the rule over the likely winners ahead of this week’s festival trifecta
Irish peak temperatures to rise by ‘up to 2.6 degrees’ by 2050
National strategy for adapting to climate change published
Peter Carey: The novel that made everybody ‘wildly worried’
The double Booker winner’s new work has its roots in Australia’s dark colonial past
Australian court allows return of asylum seekers to Nauru
Tens of thousands throughout Australia attend rallies in support of 267 asylum seekers
Barbara the Slut and Other People, by Lauren Holmes: let’s talk about sex
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Eileen Battersby’s favourite Australian fiction
To mark Australia Day, our Literary Correspondent celebrates her literary wizards of Oz
Peter Carey: secrecy in the information age
The Australian’s new novel, ‘Amnesia’, tackles hacking and activism – so why does he think ghostwriting Julian Assange’s memoir would be a bad idea?
A very special relationship: Amnesia
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The perils of not letting go
Australian novelist Tim Winton has produced a profound tale of a last stab at salvation in ‘Eyrie’
Brought to Book: Joseph O’Connor on why reading is a more creative act than writing
‘If there is a Hell being prepared for me, it will be a dinner party. But I’d like to be in a bar, late at night in New York, with Colm Toibin, Patti Smith, Dickens, St John of the Cross, Toni Morrison, Keats and Emily Bronte, with her brother Branwell leading the singsong while arm-wrestling’
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