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No longer pale, male and stale: your guide to the 2024 Miles Franklin shortlist

Astrid Edwards for the Conversation

Over the past two years the Miles Franklin shortlists have showcased the most diverse groups of writers in the prize’s history
What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in July

Authors and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments
Edna O’Brien in her own words – archive, 1962

20 November 1962: The writer talks to Denis Hart about leaving County Clare for London, debut novel The Country Girls, and her new play
5 out of 5 stars.

Werckmeister Harmonies review – Béla Tarr’s brooding masterpiece of a town sleepwalking into tyranny
5 out of 5 stars.

Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky’s 2000 film moves slowly around a small town where a very strange circus has arrived. Its eerie power has only grown in a time of rising fascism

- A Little Trickerie by Rosanna Pike review – loveable historical fiction
- Kensuke’s Kingdom review – Michael Morpurgo’s desert island boy’s own adventure
  3 out of 5 stars.

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