RUSSH Magazine

Ahead of the 2024 Booker Prize ceremony, here are the shortlisted titles to add to your reading list

From debutants to three-time nominees, these are the shortlist tiles to add to your reading list.

Dr Anita Vandyke on her literary influences and the books that changed her life

Author, zero-waste advocate, and aerospace engineer—she’s a powerhouse in actionable change.

Lamisse Hamouda in conversation with Minney Richani

It’s 2021. COVID-19 buzzes like a hungry wasp over the tentative return of public events, while a small community event called ‘Poetry in the Park’ is launched. It was here I first met Minney Richani.

Book Club / Culture

15 classic cookbooks every kitchen needs

Bring the heat.

Book Club / Culture

Murder mysteries and paranormal tales: 20 spooky books on our Halloween reading list

From Carmen Maria Machado to Neil Gaiman.

Your February 2025 horoscopes have landed: Here’s what’s in store for the month of Saint Valentine

Culture / Wellbeing / Wellness

21 of the best podcasts for mental health

Destinations / Travel

11 of the best hotels to stay at in Kyoto, Japan

Beauty / Favourites

Want to change up your hair this summer? Here’s 10 perfect references

Book Club / Culture

Björk announces new book documenting her Cornucopia tour

“This book documents my five-year Cornucopia tour, a culmination of a decade’s work with 360-degree sound and visual software in virtual reality and animation.”

Book Club / Culture

Tom Rasmussen on their latest book celebrating one of the biggest visionaries, ‘Lee Alexander McQueen’

“I remember seeing pictures of Voss, SS01, in a magazine when I was like eleven. I was obsessed. How could someone not be?”

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Sally Rooney’s novel, ‘Intermezzo’, is finally here

Expect musings on grief, redemption, desire, and hopefully some Rooney bread-and-butter like horny sex scenes, Marxism, and class tensions.

Book Club / Culture

Thomas Mayo on Bruce Pascoe’s ‘Dark Emu’ and the books he’s currently reading

My favourite book of all time … “Is hard to decide. I want a book to move me, deeply, and what moves me depends on what is happening in my life at the time.”

Book Club / Culture

Tilly Lawless on her favourite authors and books you should at least read once

“I’m forever a horse girl”

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Isobel Beech on the books she read in her early twenties and the Australian writers she admires the most

It’s safe to say when it comes to writing she’s done it all.

Book Club / Culture

Sophia Cai on ‘Little Women’ and her favourite authors

Writer, curator and knitter, we speak with Sophia Cai on all things writing and books

Book Club / Culture

Elfy Scott on her current non-fiction ocean fascination and the book she’s read about 15 times

“Ok, so, I am just now realising I’m in a bit of a non-fiction ocean phase.”

Book Club / Culture

A new, intimate ‘Oral Biography’ will recount the lives of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy & JFK Jr.

The biography will cover the Kennedys’ storied life: from the weather conditions on the night where tragedy struck, to earlier days of Kennedy Junior’s infancy during his father’s assassination.