Read an extract from ‘Everyone and Everything’ from Nadine J Cohen.

KATE FLOOD is a compost nerd. In her new book The Compost Coach she shows us how to spin food waste and household carbon into garden gold, teaches us how and why soil matters, and how to make climate activism an everyday mission. Read an extract on why we should get down and dirty in the garden.

If you’re a big fan of Gothic fiction and you want to explore the genre further, RACHEL DENHAM-WHITE discusses the horror subcategory.

AMAL AWAD is a journalist, screenwriter and author whose novels include, Courting Samira and The Things We See in the Light. Her latest novel Bitter & Sweet is a moving story about family, love, culture and food. Good Reading caught up with Amal to discuss her new novel.

In an extract from JENNIFER ACKERMAN‘s What An Owl Knows she tells us a bit about why this night-time predator is so fascinating to humans.

The Hummingbird Effect is a genre-bending novel which looks at four women connected across time and place by an invisible thread. Good Reading chatted to the author, KATE MILDENHALL, about inspirations and her grandmama.

Our editor has been watching with sadness the increasing number of books being banned in the US. The news feed that lands in her inbox every day is littered with stories of the books that are being banned in some States. She looks back at book banning over the years in the US.

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This month our editor talks about author who overexploit in their writing. We also hear from readers who have an opinion on changing author’s past writing.

Some friendships are toxic, some actions become skewered on the sword of social media, and the publishing world is not always a happy place. JENNIFER SOMERVILLE delves into REBECCA KUANG’s new satirical thriller, Yellowface, to see if there’s a happy ending.

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A specifically chosen word is powerful enough to influence a reader’s whole experience. But what about language? How can a foreign, or completely unknown word, change a book? RACHEL DENHAM-WHITE discusses one of her favourite literary world-building techniques of all time: stories with invented languages, A.K.A conlangs

In her new book Mad-made, Walkley Award-winning journalist TRACEY SPICER exposes the next frontier of feminism, aiming to open readers’ eyes to a transformative technological shift in society and give them the tools to make positive change. Good Reading caught up with Tracey to find out what she likes to read and who she wants to join her in a round-table discussion on high-tech.

Exploring dislocation and longing, SARAH KRASNOSTEIN dives into Peter Carey’s literary tour de force, True History of the Kelly Gang, in On Peter Carey, the latest book in the ‘Writers on Writers’ series.

Australia has long grappled with how to treat refugees, particularly children, who come to our country. In her new book Cruel Care JORDANA SILVERSTEIN, a senior research fellow at the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness at the University of Melbourne, asks why Australia pursues such unforgiving immigration policies, and why successive Australian governments say that the cruel acts they perpetrate are a form of care.

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