Jim Harrison, one of the greats of American fiction and who wrote Legends of the Fall, which was subsequently made into an Oscar-winning movie starring Brad Pitt, has died. He was 78.

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• J.K. Rowling

The celebrated Harry Potter has revealed a publisher suggested she join an amateurs' group as it rejected her crime novel.

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Nikki Savva's account of the demise of the Abbott government, The Road to Ruin, takes the number one spot in independent bookshops.

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Serial restaurateur puts his success down to keeping evolving, for himself, his chefs and staff, and for his diners.

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Much admired and shortlisted, Charlotte Wood often hears herself described as an "award-winning novelist". But until now her modest wins were an unpublished manuscript prize for her first novel and the people's prize in the NSW Premier's Literary Awards for her fourth.

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New book cements history of early Canberra family.

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​Literary news and events.

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Han Kang asks what happens when people are not allowed to remember.

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As the Inspector Montalbano books display, the marriage between book and screen is particularly happy with the crime genre.

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Nikki Savva misses out on top spot but publisher Henry Rosenbloom is still tickled pink.

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Not everything is as it seems in Stephen Leather's terrorist thriller.

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THE SILK ROADS: A NEW HISTORY OF THE WORLD by Peter Frankopan. Bloomsbury. $29.99.

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 The Sea Road: 50 Tanka. By Ross Donlon. Mark Time Norge. pp 39. $25

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Books that changed them, writers as readers and Sydney Writers' Festival.

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Cassandra Clare's latest fantasy adventure has shot to the top, denying political columnist Nikki Savva's Canberra saga top spot.

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Kim Lock has worked around Australia as a graphic designer and volunteered as a breastfeeding counsellor. She writes on women's issues such as motherhood and birth for various publications. Her fiction explores the stories that shape people's lives, but which they hide from society.

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Adelaide's town hall was packed in 1889. Hordes had come to see Fedor Jeftichew, alias Jo-Jo the Dog-Faced Boy. Born in Siberia, the freak had a kelpie-like pelt across his face, plus muttonchops and beard the future lumbersexual would only envy.

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How Sarah Marquis walked 20,000 kilometres across some of the planet's most inhospitable and dangerous countries and survived to tell the incredible tale – with a smile.

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David Aaronovitch's memoir, Party Animals, is a surprisingly nuanced account of life as the son of a full-time Communist Party worker.

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Rachel Glaser's strange and compelling novel captures the complex relationship between two American women.

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The final in the Colours of Madeleine series is not only informative but full of imaginative fun.

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Graham Swift's Mothering Sunday has the theme of a fairytale as it relates a momentous day in the life of a foundling housemaid who goes to surprising and great things.

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Jeremiah G. Hamilton refused to accept the status of an inferior and exploited the capitalist system in 19th-century America for all it was worth and became the first African-American millionaire.

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Frankenstein is 200 years old and we should all thank Mary Shelley for her creation.

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