The magic of J.K. Rowling has kept her at the top of the charts in Australian independent bookshops.

The Melbourne memoirist, poet and now children's author Maxine Beneba Clarke has racked up two shortlistings in the VPL awards.

What Blonde Ambition: Roxy Jacenko Unfiltered most effectively conveys is the bizarre, surreal nature of celebrity life.

Paddy Roe's Gularabulu represents an important milestone in Australian literature and a bridge between Aboriginal oral culture and non-Indigenous readers.

The success of Bernie Sanders in the run-in to the US Presidential election provided a great ''what-if'' moment.

Laura Woollett explores the darkest corners of the human heart in The Love of a Bad Man.

This updated translation of French decadents from the 19th and early 20th centuries includes subversive fairytales from the likes of Baudelaire, Anatole France, and Apollinaire.

On average seven children and teens are shot dead each day in the US. Unlike mass shootings, the individual killings rarely rate the news.

Laura Miller's book includes a wide range of contributors discussing the lands that so many different authors have created over hundreds of years.

Is it a bar or is it a bookshop, that is the question? Eamonn Hennessy is combining the two in his new venture.

A small publisher's decision to stop entering its books for awards has revealed how expensive and cumbersome the prize system is – and that most prizes don't boost book sales.

We asked a number of Australian writers to nominate their best reading experiences of the past year.

We will never see the like of this book again; leaders no longer have the patience, passion or attention.

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

Literary news and events in Canberra.

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.