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Richard Adams, creator of Watership Down, dies at 96
Richard Adams struck gold in 1972 with Watership Down, his saga of a group of rabbits hunting for a new sanctuary.
Richard Adams struck gold in 1972 with Watership Down, his saga of a group of rabbits hunting for a new sanctuary.
Looking for something to read over the long hot days of summer? Here are 10 books that could tickle your fancy.
Readers loved the domestic noir genre of crime fiction that mimicked the blockbusters Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn and The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins, as well as children's books, poetry and life stories.
Even at age 13, the writer felt a fierce emotional involvement with Pride and Prejudice.
No one wanted to publish his novel. But then someone did. And now he has a worldwide following.
Beethoven is a powerful imaginative motif in Valerie Murray's family memoir of fleeing Hungary for Australia.
A crime novel set in the publishing industry
Short stories by two women sit well together
A novel about two women wounded by the web
Copies of the latest adventure of the consistently popular Greg Heffley, aka the Wimpy Kid, are racing out of Australian bookshops.
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Mark McKenna's spellbinding essays take us into that great unknown zone, zooming in on encounters between the Indigenous inhabitants and the European invaders on the frontier.
This ne biography claims Jane Austen's comedy of manners disguised writing that looked at sexual abuse, slavery, evolution and women's rights.
The authors of this little book seem to be at cross purposes as they consider the future.
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Literary news and events in Canberra.
Celebrities were not the only ones sucked in when Laura Albert wrote as an abused young man.
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Stan Grant believes in the greatness of Australia as a peaceful, cohesive, prosperous society even as he recognises its history of neglect and bigotry
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.
Fly an hour any way in India and you'll land in a city with a different culture and language from where you have just left. It is heaven for the word lover, but there are traps to be avoided.
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.
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