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Books

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21 Of The Best Books We Read This Year

From Ann Patchett’s tender tale about love, to a surrealist novel about creativity and grief set in the desert… the PRIMER team pick their favourite reads of 2023.

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Top Shelf With Jodi Wilson

The Practising Simplicity author on reading rituals, books that make her cry and laugh in equal measure, and who she reads when in doubt

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Dolly Alderton’s New Novel Mines The Hellscape That Is Heartbreak

The Everything I Know About Love author flips the script on the break-up book

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Top Shelf With Clementine Ford

The I Don’t author on the book everyone loved that she didn’t, her ideal reading room, and historical lesbian fiction with artful twists

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Top Shelf With Madeleine Gray

The Green Dot author on her love for Ali Smith, the book she thinks everyone should read, and her Irish phase

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The Rise Of The New ‘Lit Girls’

There’s a new wave of memoirs from young, activist, articulate women hitting bookstores.

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Trent Dalton’s Latest Novel Is All Heart. And It Won Me Over.

Laura Brading – PRIMER’s book reviewer and resident cynic – on how Trent Dalton’s latest offering hooked her.

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Top Shelf With Charlotte Wood

The award-winning author on her reading life and how books lead us serendipitously to another.

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Why Women Need To Stop Striving To Be “Good”

Gwyneth Paltrow’s former 2IC at goop wants women to stop aiming for perfection.

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“Yes, I Am In A Wheelchair. No, I Do Not Want To Be In The Paralympics”

Writer and disability advocate on the narratives she has been handed – and why she’s making it her mission to defy them.

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Top Shelf With Nadine J. Cohen

The writer and refugee advocate on trashy rock band bios that make her cry, meeting literary heroes, and the comfort book she returns to

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The Brilliant Historical Fiction Novel Zadie Smith Didn’t Want To Write

But we’re so glad she did.