Bruce Springsteen's song lyrics have injected more drama and mystery into the myths of the American road than any figure since Jack Kerouac. He knows this, of course. So it's one of the running jokes in his big, loose, rangy and intensely satisfying new memoir, Born to Run (what else was he going to call it?), that he didn't begin to drive until he was well into his 20s.
Author Paula Hawkins agrees with fans that Emily Blunt is 'too beautiful' to play the book's overweight, alcoholic divorcee, Rachel.
One of Christopher Robin's favourite stuffed animals never made it to the iconic tale until a family photograph changed everything nearly 90 years later.
In a move that brings together, and fuses further, Jedis Luke Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda, Star Wars comic writer Jason Aaron is set to tell young Yoda's tale.
During a backstage interview at this year's Emmys, the 67-year-old Game of Thrones author revealed there was a wealth of 'fake history' to mine.
Lionel Shriver takes mischievous pleasure in attacking arguments she considers politically correct. And that's where trouble starts.
Jimmy Barnes reveals harrowing childhood in new memoir Working Class Boy, saying: 'It's pretty traumatic, putting it all out there. I feel like a weight was lifted off my shoulders.'
Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton keep their spot on top of the Australian bestseller charts.
The Muse is the second novel by English author Jessie Burton, whose debut, The Miniaturist, sold more than 1 million copies worldwide.
Gay Talese, famed for being one of the originators of New Journalism, acknowledges the affinity between the voyeur and the journalist.
This anthology is a substantial collection of writing from such well-known names as Melissa Lukashenko, Omar Musa and Maxina Beneba Clarke, as well as newer writers.
After a very slow start, Rashida Murphy's novel picks up the pace about halfway through and rockets towards its shocking conclusion.
As far as symbolic issues inexplicably beloved by the conservative end of politics go, there have been few as passionately fought as their resolute objection to same-sex marriage.
Officials in charge of an Australian writers festival were so upset with the address by their keynote speaker, the American novelist Lionel Shriver, that they censored her on the festival website and publicly disavowed her remarks.
J.M. Coetzee has been knocked out of the Man Booker Prize.
Lionel Shriver warned that inviting "a renowned iconoclast" to speak about community and belonging was "like expecting a great white shark to balance a beach ball on its nose".
This densely detailed book doesn't reveal much that is new but it does emphatically correct the misguided notion that Paul McCartney was the lesser talent of the Beatles' song-writing team.
A fresh and fascinating look into Ireland and one of its greatest families.
Read this column and you can't unread it. Sounds reasonable, right? Which is another way of saying that doesn't sound unreasonable, unlike saying that's reasonably unsound, which is plausible too, given this paragraph's hall of mirrors.
FICTION
Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton continue to delight readers at independent bookshops.
Sophie Hannah brings back Hercule Poirot and does an inspired job laying twists, ulterior motives and a breadcrumb trail of clues.
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For the couple in Matthew Griffin's poignant, beautifully written debut, the closet remains the world.
Paul Mitchell is a terse and observant writer, as alive to the particulars of Aussie idiom and experience as Tim Winton, but less showy.
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