Books
Erotic fairytale first book pulled from the New Zealand National Library for being too explicit
Simon Day 12:17am A graphic novel that depicts the sexual encounters of fairytale heroines has made history.
Take three ...books on film and television
We review British Trash Cinema, 100 Science Fiction Films and Star Trek. The Visual Dictionary
Sunday Author
Matthew Quick: You're OK and not alone
Matthew Quick knows about life on the fringe, he tells Karen Hardy.
Drawing back the curtain on the king of couture
Reviewed by Peter Craven You don't have to spend your life dreaming of real and imaginary catwalks to realise that Karl Lagerfeld is some kind of genius.
Books that changed me: Lenny Bartulin
Author and poet Lenny Bartulin talks about his favourite books.
Love in its many dimensions
LINDA MORRIS There is a little of author Colleen McCullough in each of the characters in her new romantic romp.
Paul Livingston: for king and country ... and family
Tim Barlass Paul Livingston has shone a light on an unusual family history.
Riding shotgun
John Elder How JFK died has attracted plenty of theories, but author Colin McLaren says his book gives the true account.
Interview: Donna Tartt
Caroline Baum After the long wait for her third novel in 20 years, this intriguing talent would much rather the spotlight was on her writing than on her.
The dark side of 007
Beyond the champagne fizz and glamour of the world's most famous fictional spy lies a dark portrait of flawed humanity. As Melbourne's love affair with the legend continues, Jonathan Green explores the awful truth about James Bond.
The return of the recluse
Caroline Baum Donna Tartt is back in the limelight with the release of her third novel.
Throwing out the junk
Jane Sullivan Nobody's sure who first said it, but there's a piece of advice to writers that's always coming up.
Bookmarks
Jason Steger Niven's Scots fling; a psycho Nobel rant; the Jackal bares teeth; Dohle's Amazon grace; Bridget Jones in a muddle; Hazel Rowley's helping hand, and a new den in Clunes.
Copyright
Bill Bryson's copyright stoush with Mike Gerrard has wider implications
NICK GALVIN Author Bill Bryson's warm and cuddly image has been somewhat tarnished.
Grateful
Sam Worthington who? 365 Gratefuls author surprised by email
NICK GALVIN Actor Sam Worthington says his life has been changed by a book from a first-time Queensland author that celebrates the small pleasures of life.
Undercover: Book News
Susan Wyndham The talented new head of Byron Bay Writers' Festival, a big week in poetry and the stellar Walkley Book Award longlist.
Books
The best of Tim Winton
LINDA MORRIS Tim Winton changes location from coast to city for his new novel Eyrie but Tom Keely is one of Winton's quintessential trapped men. Here's six of the best of Winton.
MaddAddam
Reviewed by Daphne Guinness Margaret Attwood's MaddAddam is difficult to read if you are not a science-fiction addict or in a science-fiction mood.
Humdrum hilarity ends handsomely
Michelle Treloar Debra Adelaide thinks she's written her best story in her latest collection.
Not Mad About it
'Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy' fails to impress
NICK GALVIN Reviewers label latest book sad, desperate and irrelevant - but readers beg to differ.
Booker
Eleanor Catton becomes youngest Man Booker winner
New Zealand author Eleanor Catton has won literature's most sought-after prize.
Books
Eleanor Catton, 28, wins Man Booker Prize for The Luminaries
Jason Steger Eleanor Catton won the Man Booker Prize with her second novel The Luminaries. At 28, she is the youngest author to claim the prize.
Book
Jackie Collins targets Confessions of a Wild Child at teenagers to distract them from porn
Rachael Jones Author Jackie Collins believes giving teenagers romance and relationship novels will help steer them away from online porn.
Macquarie
Mummy porn gets dictionary nod, thanks to Fifty Shades of Grey
LINDA MORRIS Erotic fiction targeted at women, known as mummy porn, owes its inclusion in the Macquarie Dictionary to the mega bestseller.
Happy Meals
McDonald's publishes children's books as part of Happy Meal giveaways
NICK GALVIN Fast food giant McDonald's is set to become one of America's largest publishers of children's books when it distributes 20 million paperbacks next month.
Bookshop
Thuy On On the shelf this week: Tempting Fate, Fortunately, the Milk ... and Carry a Big Stick.
Arrested development
LINDA MORRIS Margaret Drabble explores the vicarious pain of seeing our children suffer.
Books that changed me: David Whish-Wilson
Author David Whish-Wilson talks about his favourite books.
A novel situation
Stephanie Bunbury Both literary purists and anti-elitists are finding plenty to admire about this year's Booker Prize shortlist.
Fear and menace flourish in dementia's unreliable world
Louise Swinn In the days when Mick Jagger, at 70, still makes a galah of himself touring the world, dotage is not what it once was. But while age does not always bring a breakneck decline, the general population is ageing and instances of dementia grow. It lurks, as does the fear of it.
Interview: Tim Winton
Jason Steger The master of landscape turns his eye on a city and a man, both showing the ravages of age.
Undercover: Book News
Susan Wyndham Here are five words you would not expect to see in one cosy sentence: Keyser Trad, Philip Ruddock and poetry.
Finding the higher ground
Jason Steger Tim Winton turns from the suburbs and the sea to the jaded city high-rises of WA in his latest novel.
The human factor amid the horror
Reviewed by Simon Caterson Anyone interested in exploring the human dimension to World War I will be fascinated by this book.
A year of reading without scandal
STEPHANIE BUNBURY The shortlist for this year's Man Booker Prize, to be presented on Wednesday, makes it hard to pick a winner.
Bookmarks
Jason Steger Reilly's raunchy return; Morrissey the classicist; Saroo goes Googling; vive le bookshop; Coelho goes (Brazil) nuts; Coady's new venture, and a call for stories.
The barometer of torment
Reviewer: MORAG FRASER The Narrow Road to the Deep North is a huge novel, ambitious, driven, multi-stranded and unembarrassed by its documentary impulse.
A man of many capital ideas
IAN WARDEN This book will have lots of readers thinking about how the sensitive and saintly Griffins had their inspired dreams thwarted.
Compassion on the battlefield
Reviewer: SIMON CATERSON A terrible truth about World War I is that the fighting took place with modern weaponry but before modern medicine.
Dementia means fear today, gone tomorrow
Reviewer: LOUISE SWINN This is a novel with magic realist elements that straightaway indicate danger, but when a metaphor lacks subtlety it can lack resonance.
Troubled in paradise
Reviewer: NIGEL FEATHERSTONE There are people among us, it's true, who are forced to experience unimaginable horror.
All eyes on a novel situation
Both literary purists and anti-elitists are finding plenty to admire about this year's Booker Prize shortlist, Stephanie Bunbury writes.
Struggles and high ideals
Location invariably plays a key role in Tim Winton's works and his latest novel Eyrie is no exception, Jason Steger writes.
Litbits
Laurie Oakes to speak in Canberra
Ron Cerabona Veteran political journalist Laurie Oakes will speak about his new book at ANU.
Portrait of an elusive magnate
Reviewer: ROSS FITZGERALD There is something about Queensland that produces unusual and larger-than-life characters.
Long haul for the short story as Alice Munro wins Nobel accolade
Susan Wyndham With Alice Munro's win, Canada matches Australia's one Nobel win by Patrick White.
Comment
Nothing small about short story master Alice Munro's Nobel win
Susan Wyndham The first Canadian winner, Alice Munro has published nothing but short stories in a 50-year career and is admired for the Chekhovian depth and subtlety of her fiction in its most concentrated form.
Awards
Short story competition
The Age short story competition is now accepting entries.
Video
King's Speech book unveiled
Grandson of Lionel Logue, King George VI's speech therapist, releases book of treasures which fills in the movie gaps.
'Borat' to play Iraqi dictator
Sacha Baron Cohen will portray an Iraqi dictator in a film based on a book believed to have been penned by Saddam Hussein.
Joe Jackson promotes conspiracy book
Joe Jackson hopes to uncover the conspiracy behind his son's death, helping promote a new book 'What Really Happened to Michael Jackson'.
Palin wins Gawker injunction
US federal judge orders Gawker Media to pull leaked pages of Sarah Palin's forthcoming book from its blog.
Former President Bush book tour
Former President George W. Bush has kicked off his book tour with a signing of his book, "Decision Points".
The evolution of the bogan
A new book argues that bogans have transformed into celebrity-mimicking racists.
President Obama pens children's book
A children's book authored by US President Barack Obama hit bookstores across the US on Tuesday.
Magazine under fire for plagiarism
Recipe author Monica Gaudio explains how she first learnt about the US cooking magazine Cooks Source's act of plagiarism.
Keith Richards launches autobiography
Keith Richards signs copies at London book launch.
