The shortlist for this year’s Stella Prize includes books about courage, strength, compassion and love – all of which we need now, more than ever.
Young people – how they think and feel, and how families, schools, clinics and courts fail them – are a recurring theme in the six surprising and daring books shortlisted for the 2019 Stella Prize, writes
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As writers of both fact and fiction find it increasing tough to make a living, Camilla Nelson looks at the strange and sometimes dangerous jobs taken on by the world’s great authors to support their craft.