From TV to dining to technology, our panel of experts gazes into the crystal ball to answer the burning questions for 2017.

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.

In our series on modern leisure, this author relives how the sea awakened her to the full force of life.

Language in general is my photographic subject, from billboards to jam labels. And as pickings go, India is one big orchard.

Lonely Planet's Where to Go When tops the travel bestsellers charts

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.

Christopher de Hamel's knowledge of and passion for medieval manuscripts allows him to open up their remarkable world to the reader.

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.

Eighty years ago JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis dared each other to write a sci-fi novel. It was a challenge that would lead to the creation of The Lord of the Rings.

A.N. Wilson's protagonist is George Forster, a budding naturalist on board the Resolution with captain Cook.

The Wonder examines the ideals of self-sacrifice embedded in religion and the willing blindness of a family's belief.

There is an abundance of books in store in the year ahead for readers of all tastes.

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