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Melanie Kembrey

Melanie Kembrey

Spectrum Editor at The Sydney Morning Herald - Spectrum

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  • English
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  • Books
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Recent Articles

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The cult author who refuses to play by the book world’s rules

Yellowface author Rebecca F. Kuang won’t stick to anyone’s pigeonhole.
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Peter Carey says he’s done writing novels: ‘You have to know when i...

The Australian literary giant has confirmed there won’t be another novel from him.
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Thirty books we’ll be talking about for the rest of 2025

Clear your shelves. Here’s the fiction and non-fiction you can look forward to reading for the rest of the year.
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The best pop culture of 2025 (so far, and to come)

Halfway through the year, here’s what pop culture delivered – and what’s on the way.
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Two journalists, an eclectic restaurant and Taylor Swift: Inside th...

Long before the world’s most popular singer ate there, columnist Jacqueline Maley could see potential in her favourite eating spot.
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Being a person is so weird: Curtis Sittenfeld on life, luck and mid...

The author’s new collection of short stories features sliding doors aplenty – the what-ifs, the should-haves and the could-haves.
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This best-selling author had an Aussie holiday. It became a thrille...

Australia hasn’t featured in any of David Baldacci’s 60 novels. But that might be about to change.
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What we read in 2024: The year’s highest-selling books

Australian authors took out the top three spots, as our appetite for cookbooks and genre fiction remained insatiable.
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Thirty books we’re excited to read in the first half of 2025

Clear your shelves. Here are 15 fiction and 15 non-fiction titles you can look forward to reading this year.
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‘No shame any more’: Why romance novel sales have doubled in five y...

Once upon a time, they were a hidden, guilty pleasure. Now, romance novels are enjoying booming sales here and abroad – and specialty stores of their own.
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Ten new books we’re excited to read in October 2024

Christmas always comes slightly early for book lovers.
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‘I hope it sticks to them like a tick’: A writer’s gift to her stalker

Author Ella Baxter has an unusual request for the person who sent her violent and sexual letters.
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Ten great books we’re excited to read in July

From a highly anticipated poetry collection to a mind-bending debut, here are the books we’re looking forward to this month.
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We had some questions about the Jacob Elordi portrait. The artist a...

Whose idea was it for the Australian actor to be shirtless – and what’s with the Camus?
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The best books, TV, music and films of 2024 so far - and what’s to ...

Here’s what had us hooked for the first half of the year, and what’s going to get us through the rest.
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Ten great books to cosy up with this winter

The seasonal scene won’t be complete without a good read to warm the soul.
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Did Miranda July just write ‘the first great perimenopause novel’ w...

The writer, director and actor has achieved the impossible and made middle age sexy.
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Three writers named 2024 Best Young Australian Novelists

Now in its 28th year, the prize is given to an Australian writer of fiction aged 35 or under.
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She was told her fiction wasn’t ‘Australian enough’. Then she won t...

Working with a “billable hours” mindset, lawyer, mum of four and author Shankari Chandran weaves sharp social justice critiques through her loving family tales.
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‘It’s as if everything is gone’: Richard Flanagan on his most impor...

The Booker Prize-winning author says he feels a great silence within him after completing his latest work.
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Look around. Everyone is reading this buzzy new novel

Madeleine Gray’s Green Dot has attracted six-figure deals around the world, with the TV and film rights sold in a six-way auction.