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Cooperation between copyright owners, libraries and educational institutions has a sensible draft bill to the point where it is ready to go to Parliament.

The Canberra Writers' Festival is on from August 26 to 28, 2016.  

In a bumper year for quality children's fiction, the Children's Book Council of Australia awards has named Australia's best.

JK Rowling announces three new Harry Potter books, but don't expect to put them on your bookshelf.

Debut novelist Anna Snoekstra wrote a thriller set in Canberra, and now it's been picked up by Hollywood.

Is the answer to the imminent hole in our television viewing once Game Of Thrones ends George RR Martin's new book series, Wild Cards? It's a bit hard to know since Universal Cable Productions has yet to begin scripting, but science-fiction book nerd Katie Hires has high hopes for the series.

Stephanie Owen Reeder explores picture books that entertain, educate and ultimately delight.

Ahead of the launch of his new book, Where are our boys? National Library curator of maps Martin Woods explains how newsmaps won the Great War.

Literary news and events in Canberra.

The script of the Harry Potter play being performed in London has, to no one's surprise, stormed to the top of the bestseller lists.

For those of us who were working adults and parents, even teenagers or children, the 1980s still seem like yesterday. To have those years treated as the past makes us feel old.

Kill Your Darlings exits the print world for better days online.

The Mandibles is Lionel Shriver's new book. Will it be as widely successful as We need to talk about Kevin, the book that made her rich and famous? It certainly has all the controversial elements.

For several of the writers, rebellion is fuelled by the cultural disconnect between themselves and their migrant parents.

In Writing to the Wire, Lisa Jacobson reminds us of why we signed the UNHCR convention about the right to asylum that we violate.

Ita Buttrose told stories of how she had to censor the nude Jack Thompson Cleo centrefold for prudish Queensland authorities.

The location and names may differ in The Wrong Hand, but similarities to the Jamie Bulger case are eerie to the point of ghoulishness.

Magic and romance, intrigue and violence are all skilfully woven into Lian Hearn's epic of medieval Japan.

Like a lot of reporting stars, Peter Stefanovic got his start at WIN Television in Canberra.

Julian Assange has used his appearance at the Bendigo Writers Festival in a live cross from London to address the controversy surrounding allegations of sexual assault made against him in Sweden.

For all the advantages of modern, individual living, Sebastian Junger argues that something is lacking: a sense of tribe, of belonging to a community.

Baba Schwartz's ability to evoke the past still resonates fully for her, and vividly, and movingly for the reader.

Richard Fidler's Ghost Empire is a father-and-son journey of discovery into the lost world of Byzantium.

Literary news and events in Canberra.