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Each month Guardian Australia editors and critics pick the upcoming titles they have devoured – or can’t wait to get their hands on

A.D. Hope and Patrick White are towering figures of 20th-century Australian culture. Few cast larger literary shadows over the postwar period. White, with his dizzying, monumental novels and Nobel prize, holds pride of place. But Hope, as a critic, poet and academic, exercised a considerable influence over his generation. His…

New Factor road bike retains many of the features of the Ostro VAM, but with simplified construction

Companies claim this is ‘fair use’. I think it’s a digital heist

Melbourne-based publisher Black Inc Books is seeking to partner with an unnamed AI company or companies and wants its authors to allow their work to be used to train artificial intelligence.

Authors asked to allow Black Inc to use their work for ‘training, testing, validation and the deployment of a machine learning’ system

We run you through all the spectacular bikes and components in the WorldTour this year

FDJ Suez switch to Specialized bikes and components, Team Picnic PostNL switch to Lapierre, and UAE Team ADQ still has a parmesan sponsor

They say everyone has a book inside them. Some people are unfortunate enough to have more than one.