The appearance of his wife's old boyfriend inspired Graeme Simsion's third novel.

Ralph Lauren is putting collared T-shirts and cable-knits with polo pony motifs to one side to set to work on his autobiography.

LOS ANGELES, Sept 24 - The ashes of writer Truman Capote have sold at auction for nearly $A60,000 - 10 times the amount they were expected to fetch.

Here's a question that separates a real Harry Potter fan from the rest of the muggles who think this is all just a bunch of wizarding gibberish: Is your Patronus a Siberian cat, a heron or a basset hound?

Krys Lee's debut novel is a brave and eye-opening look at the world's strangest rogue state.

Mal Peet's Beck is a major achievement: a historical picaresque that doesn't skimp on horror or romance.

Pirates and cannibals, storms and schemes await as the children in this brisk and easy-to-read adventure.

Dave O'Neil's light, thoroughly suburban tale is a lot of fun, transporting you back to the clear blue skies of summers past, to that foreign country where we did things differently.

Swifty is a descriptive record of the public life of a revered, formidable figure with the consistent theme being that of a life defined by "giving".

Planet Jackson is a morality play that shook the union movement, affected the stability of the government and still begs questions within questions.

Comeback is, first and foremost, the story of a large family, a story with as many simultaneous points of intimacy as a great battle, or orgy.

The Underground Railroad is the story of a woman who believes in her intrinsic right not to suffer to increase the wealth of those who already have too much.

Carmel Bird never loses the wry response to the mess people haplessly make of things.

How simple is it to write for television? Is it just a question of having the right ingredients?

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.

Literary news and events in Canberra.

If I sound like an expert, I'm not. All this lore comes courtesy of hindsight.

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.

The higher one's status, the better one's health.

Zoe Foster Blake was initially optimistic then lost hope that her bestseller The Wrong Girl would make it onto TV, she tells Kate Waterhouse.

Lionel Shriver takes mischievous pleasure in attacking arguments she considers politically correct. And that's where trouble starts.