Canberra author Stephanie Owen Reeder has won a major prize at the Children's Book Council of Australia awards for her retelling of the true story of Lennie Gwyther.

When Australian thriller writer LA (Louise) Larkin heard of a British expedition to Antarctica where a team of scientists were planning to drill 3km down into a subglacial lake that had been isolated for half a million years, the first question she asked herself was what if.

Candice Fox cornered best-selling author James Patterson at a cocktail party and next thing she knew they were writing a book.

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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.

Despina Stratigakos' compact book offers moments of despair and delight in rendering the place of women within the practice and culture of architecture.

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.

Any word turns odd the longer you stare at it. Brave is one example.

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.

Andrew Masterson applies his razor intellect, a word palette that mingles Donkey Kong and Panglossianism, and deep draughts of comic insight to the moronic memes that seemingly choke the planet

On the morning I meet the artist and writer Kim Mahood, she has driven her ute nonstop for 1000 kilometres on her way home to Canberra from the Tanami Desert in Western Australia, a journey she has made back and forth across the continent for more than 20 years with the compulsion of a migrating bird.

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

This week's Top 10 business books.

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