The Wimpy Kid, Harry Potter and Jimmy Barnes top Christmas book charts
Copies of the latest adventure of the consistently popular Greg Heffley, aka the Wimpy Kid, are racing out of Australian bookshops.
Copies of the latest adventure of the consistently popular Greg Heffley, aka the Wimpy Kid, are racing out of Australian bookshops.
The Washington Post
Senators Pauline Hanson and Derryn Hinch have emerged as pivotal figures in the Australian book industry's campaign to scuttle calls by the Productivity Commission to scrap certain copyright restrictions affecting Australian authors and publishers.
If you're anything like the typical Australian, you probably break the copyright law 80 times a day, according figures included in the Productivity Commission's final report to the government on intellectual property.
Hannah Kent's new historical novel set in 19th-century Ireland and plunging the reader into a world of tradition and superstition is number one in independent bookshops.
Viet Thanh Nguyen, a refugee from the Vietnam War, won the Pulitzer prize for fiction this year for The Sympathizer, which tackles America's intervention.
Reading Petina Gappah's suite of short stories set in Zimbabwe is an intoxicating experience.
For the 21st Jack Reacher novel Lee Child has taken us back to his earlier days as an intelligence operative in Afghanistan.
Lady Jane Grey begged not to be anointed queen but the forces of history were turning and she was doomed.
In Cove, Cynan Jones sets himself the task of writing prose of absolute compression for his stark novel of surviving the elements.
There are 1600 inscriptions, each a case-study amounting to a broader cross-section of Australian immigration over two centuries.
Can Dash rescue the spirit of Christmas in his girlfriend Lily, who keeps disappearing into the Manhattan night?
Scurvy deeply affected the senses and perceptions: especially of explorers in first contact with the otherness of the New World.
Rachael Treasure is the author of rural fiction bestsellers including Jillaroo, The Stockman and The Cattleman's Daughter.
Trevor Noah's memoir is told in a voice that is tuned to the sheer dramatic absurdity of events and laws in South Africa.
Jaye Chin-Dusting spent 30 years doing medical research but wanted something else to do. So she bought a bookshop.
Imagine a land in which everything was outlawed, except for the things that were specifically allowed. Things would more-or-less work, until you tried something new.
Shirley Hazzard was one of the most cosmopolitan, elegant and quietly formidable writers of the 20th century, claimed by Australians and New Yorkers – and some Italians – as one of their own. Born in Sydney, a US citizen since the 1970s, she died at the age of 85 in her Manhattan apartment on Monday night.
The novelist Georgia Blain died last week. Fellow novelist James Bradley pays a tribute to a true friend and a woman possessed of a black sense of humour.
The 2004 Miles Franklin Award winner worked for the United Nations in Italy before moving to a critically acclaimed career in writing.
Literary news and events in Canberra.
Footy fans knew him as one of the great rogues of the game. But in his autobiography, and over lunch, a different Dane Swan emerges.
This collection of essays and recollections focuses on Kiffy Rubbo, the gallery director who had a profound influence on the Melbourne art world.
We can only wonder how St John would feel about the musical adaptation of her first novel, The Women in Black.
Jimmy Barnes tops the biography best-sellers' list this week with Working Class Boy.
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