On the bookshelf this week: Bird, Living with Dr Who and The Kept.
Michaela McGuire: books that changed me
Author, blogger and editor Michaela McGuire talks about her favourite books.
Convict life revealed
A long-lost book is a precious part of Australia's heritage, writes Robert Willson.
By the light of the moon
Silence of the movie machine
The moral cost of doing business with Nazi film interests was high.
Report From The Interior review: The good, the bad and the execrable end in torpor
Reading Paul Auster's fiction has never been satisfying, in my experience, but I put my dislike of the acclaimed New Jersey author's novels - when his post-modern parlour games failed to enthral, say, or his cheesy tough-guy dialogue made me smirk - down to inexplicable blind spots in my discernment.
For Today I am A Boy: Author Kim Fu on her debut novel
Psychology studies shaped a debut novel about gender identity, writes Marc McEvoy.
The Everything Store: The infinite emporium
Well-read: fiction's big sensations
Literary crazes were driving fans into frenzies for centuries before J.K.Rowling dreamed of a boy wizard, or teenagers went batty over The Hunger Games. Here are some of literature's big hits.
Measured but vexing tangent
A biographer turns his hand to the geometry of the Iron Age.