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.
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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 best of these highlights from The Conversation interrogate the reality behind news report beat-ups of academic findings.
Marcel Danesi maintains a healthy level of scepticism about the applications and future of the emoji.
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The most memorable essays in Treasure Palaces capture how personal transformation can take place within the halls of these impersonal institutions.
We learn quickly that a small child has died. But the question is how and why?
Emma Flint is the latest in a string of writers to base a book, play or movie on the notorious case of Alice Crimmins and the murder of her two children.
Michael Wilding's hybrids of satire and crime fiction are too funny to be called bleak, but conceal a complex seriousness of purpose.
Margaret the First takes a real figure from 17th-century English history – a ''lady writer'' – and reimagines her life.
Far from a fan of regimented leisure, William McInnes enjoys the party side of a dinner.
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.
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