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‘Lunch with’ writer Blanche d’Alpuget.

Blanche d’Alpuget’s relationship with Bob Hawke is probably the least interesting thing about her

Australia’s most famous mistress-turned-wife on her life as a teenage runaway, the assault that changed her, and finding gratitude.

  • Jacqueline Maley

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Prince Andrew and King Charles at a vigil for the late Queen Elizabeth II at the Palace of Westminster in London in 2022.

Our link to the Crown is an anachronism that must end

Bravo, Tom Keneally, your views on the outdated relationship between Australia and Britain are on the money, writes Warren Thomas.

Call this a geriatric rant if you wish, but at 90, I’ve decided enough is enough

I’m fond of King Charles but, on my significant birthday, I must declare: I am not his subject. I owe him no allegiance.

  • Thomas Keneally
Peter Carey has now turned his attention to writing a work of non-fiction.

Peter Carey says he’s done writing novels: ‘You have to know when it’s enough’

The Australian literary giant has confirmed there won’t be another novel from him.

  • Melanie Kembrey
Zendaya famously paid homage to Joan at the 2018 Met Gala.

‘Ripping yarn’: Searching for the lead role in Baz and Tom’s Joan of Arc epic

Shooting of Jehanne d’Arc will start on the Gold Coast.

  • Andrew Hornery
Indigenous artist Jonathan Jones at Dawes Point.

Ancient Indigenous heritage that makes Greeks and Romans look like Johnnies come lately

The heritage Olympics are coming to Australia – and it will result in a motion to acknowledge traditional Indigenous owners of lands around the world, and do more to recognise their unique contribution.

  • Julie Power
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SURVIVORS (clockwise from top left) Leosia Korn with daughter Anita, Leosia with husband Mundek and daughter Yvonne, Leosia, Oskar Schindler and Mundek in 1972, Leosia, her daughter-in-law Lini and great grandson Aaron. Background, the Schindler factory workers Holocaust survivors.

‘An Oscar for Oskar’: Schindler’s Ark families honour author Tom Keneally

The families of the Holocaust survivors saved by Oskar Schindler paid tribute to the Schindler’s Ark author this week.

  • Helen Pitt
Fanatic Heart is the latest novel from Tom Keneally.

Tom Keneally’s sparkling new novel is a book for our times

The acclaimed author is acutely aware of the risks associated with his novel about a controversial Irish nationalist.

  • Morag Fraser
Thomas Keneally displays his cheque and book, after he was awarded the 1982 Booker Prize.

From the Archives, 1982: Keneally’s Schindler’s Ark wins Booker Prize

40 years ago, Tom Keneally won the Booker Prize, Britain’s most prestigious prize for fiction, for his book ‘Schindler’s Ark’. Keneally was the first Australian winner of the distinguished prize.

  • Janet Hawley
Tom Keneally says the filament between the past and the present is thin.

Keneally wins historical fiction prize and fires a shot for writers

Tom Keneally has won the $50,000 Historical Novel Prize and used some of his award to make a statement about the value of writers to Australia.

  • Jason Steger