Short stories

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Comedian Andy Lee's children's book strikes a chord with adults and kids alike with its basic premise: Do Not Open This Book.

Stories written 80 years ago by F.Scott Fitzgerald will be published next April.

Andy Lee explained how the book, meant to be a one-off surprise for his sister, Alex Miles, ended up being a published work.

What's on in the Canberra literary scene.

Superheroes. Villains. Video games and movies. Stories about girls. Stories about adventures. Stories about kids like us. That's what Indigenous kids want to read.

Phosphene by Tamryn Bennett is the fourth volume in the Rabbit Poets Series

Canberra is a city of secrets. And when Steve Lewis and Chris Uhlmann first began writing their series of books back in 2011 they had a plan to reveal a few of them.

It may be drawn from real life but there's more than a hint of make-believe about the wonderfully warm fish-out-of-water series The Durrells.

Richard Neville, a co-founder and editor of the controversial counterculture magazine Oz, has died aged 74.

Whenever Henrietta went to the opera she shut her eyes to block out the lascivious throats, the heaving breasts, the strapping torsos. Meanwhile a night of Shakespeare enforced the same lass to clap her palms over her ears, lest she absorb an innuendo.

The narrator of Ian McEwan's new novel could be the youngest in all literature _ he is in his third trimester as a fetus.

Pokemon joins the top 10

Described as a literary giant, is the recipient of many awards, has featured on the Time 100 most influential people in the world list and has just released her seventh work of fiction, Commonwealth. Early reviews are praising it as one of the best novels of the year. Here she reflects on the impact her father had on her work.

When she was young, Magda Szubanski used to read Enid Blyton and her father's old anatomy books. "I knew by the age of eight how to dissect a person," she told the Melbourne Writers Festival. "I performed it as a party trick."

Mascot Books threads the needle between the old world and new world of publishing.

Transition and transformation are key elements to all of Meg Rosoff's books. As are dogs.

If anyone was expecting a gentle trot through the whys and wherefores of writing, the pros and cons of great writers in Richard Flanagan's first public lecture as inaugural Boisbouvier Professor of Australian Literature at the University of Melbourne they were in for a surprise.

Man Booker-winning novelist begins the public element of his role as Boisbouvier professor of Australian literature at the University of Melbourne on Thursday with a lecture at Melbourne Writers Festival.

Literary news and events in Canberra.

The Girls' star is writing her first fiction book.

Peter Mares' essential new book, Not Quite Australian, is a cogent analysis of the shifts in migration policy that have occurred in Australia in the 21st century.

Fingernail scratch marks on the hull of a sunken boat gave a chilling clue to the battle to stay alive before 14 local football players drowned off Mornington in 1892.