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Double Down: Diary of a Wimpy Kid, by Jeff Kinney.

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Jeff Kinney's Wimpy Kid is in his customary spot at the top of the bestseller lists.

The ugly truth about bad cops

Court illustrations of Glen McNamara and Roger Rogerson on trial for the 2014 murder of Jamie Gao.

in Australia's long, ignominious history of bent coppers, there has been none as synonymous with crime as Roger Caleb Rogerson.

The Body: A poem by Thomas Shapcott

Author Tom Shapcott, author of Spirit Wrestlers. image supplied - portrait

Thomas Shapcott's poem ponders how our bodies provide the limits to our wildest dreams and how as we age that constriction becomes so natural.

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<i>Double Down: Diary of a Wimpy Kind</i>, by Jeff Kinney.

The latest Diary of a Wimpy Kid has gone straight to the top of the Australian bestseller list.

Welcome to Australia

EMBARGO FOR BOSS MAG> SEE AFR PIC DESK> SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - AUGUST 22: Sudanese refugee and lawyer Deng Adut poses for a ...

Deng Thiak Adut, recently named NSW Australian of the Year, came to Australia as a refugee from Sudan. In an extract from his book, he describes arriving in Australia.

Strangers in Bali's complex paradise

Author Fiona Higgins' new novel, Fearless, is about connections forged between unlikely people.

One of the characters in Fiona Higgins' new book says rather tartly, "I think a fair few Aussies consider it the ninth state of Australia." She is referring, of course, to Bali, the setting for Fearless.