Ali Land worked as a child and adolescent mental-health nurse in hospitals and schools in Britain and Australia before becoming a full-time writer.
Malachy Tallack searches for 'un-discovered' islands and finds his home
Susan Wyndham "In the modern world we hardly need to think about where we live because we eat the same food, go to the same shops."
Between the lines
Susan Wyndham When I started work as literary editor of The Sydney Morning Herald in January 1996, one of my first pleasant duties was to attend Sydney Writers' Festival. Back then, as a small offshoot of the Sydney Festival, it wooed about 18,000 sedate book lovers away from more hedonistic entertainment to listen to writers talk in the galleries of the State Library.
Barack Obama book deal for memoirs tipped to top $27 million
Michael Idato Advance for planned presidential memoir is expected to break the $US15 million record set by Bill Clinton.
Suzanne Rutland: books that changed me
Suzanne D. Rutland is Professor of the Department of Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies at the University of Sydney, and has published widely on Australian Jewish history. Her book co-authored with Sam Lipski, Let My People Go: The Untold Story of Australia and the Soviet Jews 1959-89 (Hybrid), was joint winner of the 2016 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Australian History.
Indie Book Awards 2017 shortlists: Maxine Beneba Clarke's 'hard sell'
Susan Wyndham Maxine Beneba Clarke thought her memoir, The Hate Race, would be "a hard sell at the end of the day because it was a book about a little black girl". Booksellers proved her wrong.
The Terranauts by T.C. Boyle: enough stress for 10,000 TV episodes
Clark Spencer T.C. Boyle's new novel explores the tensions which might arise among a colony of people on another planet.
Karen Lamb: books that changed me
After reading The Death of the Heart, I knew I needed to get better at reading people's motives.
Divergent author Veronica Roth enters her brave new fictional world
Jason Steger Veronica Roth will be distracted from her concern at the advent of President Donald Trump by the launch of Carve the Mark, the follow-up to her smash-hit Divergent trilogy.
Tim Harford's Messy review: A symphony that almost hits the ultimate crescendo
Peter Martin The best pop songs start out like something you want and then build up to something so much more.