When external forces bend us into someone we don't wish to be, we need leisure to restore us to ourselves, however fractured or incompetent, writes author Mireille Juchau. In this world, the art of letting go is more important than ever.
If you didn't get these 2016 books for Christmas, pick up a copy for yourself.
Melbourne will get a taste of an Indian writers festival with a pop-up festival being held in February
She's already sold the film rights to her first novel, The Dry, but praise from the New York Times is more than welcome to Jane Harper.
Bringing back Harry Potter has returned J.K. Rowling to the top of the bestseller lists in a year when children's titles dominated sales in Australian bookshops.
The group of friends formerly known as The Book Sluts are at it again, with another outback saga.
Sales of Adolf Hitler's Nazi blueprint Mein Kampf have soared since a special edition of the political treatise went on sale in Germany a year ago.
Desmond O'Grady reckons the Tuscan countryside rather than Florence attracts Australians to the Italian region.
I've drafted ways to work more words into my life, because too many words are barely enough.
WA mining boom mixes politics and crime
Dangerous has already shot to the top of Amazon's bestseller list, based on pre-order purchases alone.
Why does actor Benedict Cumberbatch cut such a dash as British literary detective Sherlock Holmes?
When Jonathan Lee has to search for his father-in-law, Henry Wong, he is up to his neck in blackmail, death threats and financial shenanigans.
Kill the Next One is an intense psychological thriller that creates a whirlpool of suppressed motives.
I'll Take You There was initially released as an interactive book app. A real novel does lie inside, but you'll have to rip open a lot of wrapping paper to get to it.
The chaff-to-wheat ratio is high in this collection of winning writing, and you're sure to find something to love and hate.
I set out to read the thin white duke's 100 favourite books in a year. So what went wrong?
The boundaries between work and play have been eroded almost completely. But there is still life to be led if we can escape from our online purgatories.
John Simpson knows what he's talking about when it comes to his portrait of war reporters. After all, he's been there, done that.
Garry Kinnane's memoir is also a meditation about travel as a defining part of living
There are quite a few arresting moments in this collection of song writers explaining how they go about their business.
Among the man themes in this collection of offerings from Women of Letters is the pervasive one of speculative living.
Writer and academic Josephine Wilson talks about some of the books that influenced her.
Encroaching blindness forces the author to make a tough decision.
Like the best crime fiction, Richard Beasley's Cyanide Games points the finger at society's fault lines and suggests we pay attention.
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