What do you get when you throw a novelist into a group of biologists?

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Not a biography of Victor Trumper but "an iconography, a study of Trumper's valence in cricket's mythology and imagery".

These two biographies seek to bring their subjects out of the shadows cast by their respective husbands.

Gary Chance is an amoral criminal in a murky moral world but when a job goes wrong he is forced to make radical decisions.

Graeme Davison's almost compassionate understanding of a callow colonial country struggling to establish its own identity traces its flowering into a confident global destination.

When it comes to creating worlds for the reader to relish, it's hard to go past one based on the writer's imagination rather than reality.

J.K. Rowling tops the children's best-sellers' list again

Commonwealth writers have no chance of beating US 'big hitters', 2011 winner Julian Barnes claims.

Meg McKinlay is a children's writer and poet who lives in Fremantle, Western Australia. Her novel A Single Stone (Walker Books), about a 14-year-old girl who lives in a mountain village where small children work in the mines, won the 2016 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Young Adult Fiction.

In his book Conclave, Robert Harris takes the reader into the Sistine Chapel as 118 old men in robes vote for a new pope.

J.K. Rowling's script for the film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them has gone straight to the top of the bestseller list on publication.

Patrick Leigh Fermor's letters reveal both a first-rate writer and a paradoxical person.

Chris Rogers became a fixture in the Australian cricket team at the relatively advanced age of 36.

Sally Faulkner's account of her attempt to rescue her children from Beirut is sad and full of tension.

When Cindy marries a charming Australian on impulse and is carried off to a dusty sheep station in New South Wales she gets more than she bargained for.

Diana Gabaldon revisits her time-travelling Scottish hero, Jamie Fraser - in his youth

Alan Watson focuses on two speeches to argue that Churchill's contribution after the war was as significant as during it.

Brian Evenson's stories show he has an original imagination and a strong stomach.

Anyone who has suffered the pain of being cast aside in favour of a new love object will relate to Elena Ferrante's children's book.

In a time of tightened funding for the arts, the Copyright Agency has doubled the value of its Author Fellowship for a mid-to-late-career writer to $80,000. The "gobsmacked" recipient is Melissa Lucashenko.

One of the familiar subjects for Nicolas Rothwell is the contrast between and superimposition of antipodean and European landscapes.

As faces change on our screens, people once marginalised in some aspects of pop culture are now embracing their distinct identities.

Our word guru was over the moon to see a diphthong decoder carry a plot.