Change management fails because, most of the time, it pays no heed to how people think.

It is the eve of Anzac Day, 1918. The Germans have taken the French town of Villers-Bretonneux, and now threaten the key British supply centre of Amiens. It is no exaggeration to say that the fate of the Great War may hang in the balance.

In his new book, acclaimed Australian author Tom Keneally tackles the Catholic Church and the abuse scandal engulfing it. Here, he writes exclusively for Fairfax Media on the man behind his main character.

That's so Melbourne.

In sly and subtle ways, English has been saddled with racing idiom across the board, including across the board.

In a series of brief and informed sketches, novelist A.S. Byatt provides captivating introductions to William Morris and Mariano Fortuny – their houses, their work, their lives.

Oneworld repeats its Booker success; the brothers and sister Rubbo; Sisters in Crime celebrates, and Peter Singer's award.

An American author has won the prestigious Man Booker Prize for the first time, with a biting satire about race relations in the USA.

Has the debate over the authorship of Shakespeare's plays - or, at least, some of them - finally been settled?

Literary news and events in Canberra.

In Anna Snoekstra's first novel a girl arrested for shoplifting pretends to be another similar-looking girl who disappeared years ago.

The bass guitarist with the indie band Art of Fighting, Peggy Frew, has found a new creative outlet as an acclaimed literary writer.

Like many of Sebastian Barry's central characters, Thomas McNulty is recalling youth in old age, and he remembers the extravagant, timeless pleasure of it. But his life has also been full of horrors.

Teju Cole's voice tends to the meditative, even melancholy, but is more than capable of rising to the occasions of indignation.

The Bee Friendly Garden is Australia's top-selling garden book.

Hannah Kent's second novel is the top pick of buyers at independent bookshops around the country.

The most successful of Michelle Cahill's stories sublimate pointy-headed intertextuality into broader appeal.

Julia Pastrana married impresario Theodore Lent who had his wife mummified for exhibition after her death.

Michelle Paver's new book is a stark and gnawing tale of horrors lurking at the limits of human endurance and beyond.

Robert Harris' latest thriller unearths schemes and plots within a Vatican conclave to elect a new pope.

Here's one group you don't usually hear associated with celebrity feuds: the people who hand out Nobel prizes.

Gareth Stedman Jones says his biography of Karl Marx and examination of the development of his ideas is an effort to put the political theorist back in his 19th-century surroundings.

Heather Rose's observations on life and art in The Museum of Modern Love, are profound.

It was an exchange in America that prompted Amanda Webster's deep reflection on her childhood and led to this book.