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Life of M bleeds fact into fiction, but it requires much more of the reader than a simple guessing game of who’s who.
Celia Paul’s extraordinary, art-focused life is captured in two brilliant autobiographies. Stella longlisted Stephanie Radok makes the ordinary special in her art.
A book about artists that revels in its ambiguities.
Rachel Cusk’s twelfth novel is strange, compelling and ferociously intelligent. It explores artists, mothers and daughters, and the ‘blankness of spirituality’ on the other side of gender.
When Jane Gleeson-White’s marriage ended two years after her mother died, she lost her voice. Books by women writers like Rachel Cusk, Olivia Laing and Maggie Nelson helped her find it again.
Deborah Levy’s new novel, set in our pandemic-era present, contains the heat and desire of a European summer and the upward struggle of a soul. Jane Gleeson-White says she ‘read it like a thriller’.
Family estrangement feels shameful and isolating: but if you’ve experienced it, you’re far from alone. Sharing true stories can help reduce shame and create awareness.
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Adjunct Lecturer, English and Creative Writing, UNSW Canberra, UNSW
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Associate Professor in Department of English, UCL
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Visiting Research Fellow, Department of English and Creative Writing, Adelaide University
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Casual Academic, Creative Writing and English Literature, Flinders University
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Adjunct Researcher, English and Writing, University of Tasmania
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PhD in Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool