Although we're used to Elizabeth Gilbert's personal revelations – no one would have predicted what the 'Eat, Pray, Love' author's next chapter was going to be.

''I'm no great author'' insists radio comedian Andy Lee on his overnight success as a children's author.

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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.

There was more to the man than the angry hedonism of his youth.

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.

The Lonely City presenting itself as a smooth blend of cultural history, biography, critical analysis and memoir.

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

Sarah Armstrong' s third novel Promise (Macmillan) is about a woman who runs away with her neighbour's son after she suspects he is being abused.

The easy way out of a lingering, painful death turns out to be a questionable choice in Steven Amsterdam's thought-provoking third novel.    

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.

A comprehensive, at times overwhelming, account of the lives of women in occupied France.

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."