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Holden Sheppard was feeling frustrated by restrictions of young adult fiction, and by being told he couldn't write about ...
The corruption watchdog has recommended police consider prosecuting the former officer, after it found he lied in official ...
Walking towards the hospital’s main entrance, one can’t help but notice a large collection of young plants to the right – some in raised boxes, some at ground ...
Once you leave Australia’s cities and head inland, masculinity as an idea and a reality can grow weird and phantasmagoric.
FICTION King of Dirt Holden Sheppard Pantera Press, $34.99. Brash, bolshy and bold, Western Australia’s Holden Sheppard has created a layered and pitch-perfect anti-hero in his latest work, a ...
The two men guilty of the murder of Indigenous schoolboy Cassius Turvey have now been handed life sentences. Jack Brearley, ...
The Lucchesi family in Western Australia’s Wheatbelt deal with the very big and the very small. They farm 7900ha – that’s 79 ...
While you won’t get the luxuries of the famous cross-continent train, you’ll at least be able to enjoy some of the same views ...
Western Australia's local government minister says the trouble-plagued Shire of Coolgardie should seek a merger with ...
Despite the cities of Perth and Vincent suspending their e-scooter hire schemes indefinitely following a fatal incident in the Perth CBD, this council won’t be following suit.
Sheppard was born in the rural town of Geraldton on the state’s Mid West coast, and now lives in Perth. His debut young adult novel Invisible Boys was adapted for a Stan original series this ...