Harmless Like You is written in beautifully crafted prose and tells a family story across two time periods.

Indigenous leader Noel Pearson has lambasted the ABC as "miserable" and "racist" during a speech in Sydney on Monday.

Jeff Kinney's Wimpy Kid is in his customary spot at the top of the bestseller lists.

She joined forces with Reese Witherspoon to create more roles for women. In her latest project Australian producer Bruna Papandrea has hit paydirt.

The former champion says there is too little respect on the roads.

The Return is remarkable for its lack of anger and bitterness. It is beautifully written and artfully constructed, its reflections moving fluidly across the decades.

One of the intriguing aspects of "Tell the Truth, Shame the Devil" is just how many of the issues raised in "Looking for Alibrandi" resurface here.

The writer hid her manuscript after scathing feedback from her sister-in-law, who was hurt by her depiction in the novel.

Three new books take an in-depth look at the history and personalities of protest movements in Australia.

Identity is a two-way mirror – what we project and what others perceive, but Indigenous people are constantly reminded that their identities are in question.

He's probably washing his hair that night.

Authors and illustrators fire up the imaginations of children.

Think forensic science in a cosy setting, says the creator of this very cold case crime series.

Ross Coulthart is a reporter with the Nine Network's 60 Minutes, and winner of a Logie and the Gold Walkley award. His books include the biography Charles Bean and a revised edition of The Lost Diggers (HarperCollins), about the discovery in France of a trove of photographic plates of World War I Australian soldiers.

Literary events and news in Canberra.

A sunny new edition of Stasiland; why girls have taken over book titles.

Computer mouses or computer mice? That's your classic quicksand question.

in Australia's long, ignominious history of bent coppers, there has been none as synonymous with crime as Roger Caleb Rogerson.

Thomas Shapcott's poem ponders how our bodies provide the limits to our wildest dreams and how as we age that constriction becomes so natural.

There have been many important reprint series of Australian literature but Text Classics is one of the best.

The latest Diary of a Wimpy Kid has gone straight to the top of the Australian bestseller list.

Another Brooklyn is an intense, painful, poetic book about what it means to grow up black and female in a white man's world.

With his marriage falling apart, Lee Zachariah heads back to Australia to cover the election campaign.

Central to this account of the Australian advertising industry is the revolution of the 1970s and the new generation of ceatives.

From the history of stink bombs to the lessons learned from military autopsies, Grunt mixes the quirky with the confronting.