It's hard to believe it has taken 70 years for Gerard Reve's The Evenings to reach the English-speaking world.

The Possessions is supernatural romance that thrives on its author's imaginative world-building

Caroline Miley's historical novel pitches a young painter into a society undergoing change through industrial development, political revolt and artistic progress.

J.C. Burke never aspired to be a writer but says she finds it ''instinctive''. Her new young-adult novel is about the AIDS pandemic.

Libby Angel's The Trapeze Act is a colourful and striking coming-of-age novel.

Parkes found the way to revive itself was to start an Elvis festival. This is the story of how it happened.

After his talent at the piano was spotted at an early age, Edward Cahill played for Dame Nelli Melba and she suggested a career in Europe.

Mathew Radcliffe's portrait of the times - mixing memoir and history - captures a significant post-war moment: the last days of colonialism.

Last week, Candice Fox's fourth novel, Crimson Lake, was published and the week before the novel she wrote with James Patterson, Never Never, went straight into the New York Times bestseller list in top spot.

Michael Lewis tells the story of the productive friendship of two astonishing Holocaust survivors.

If you've ever wondered what it was like to get high with Oliver Sacks – and really, who hasn't? – the answer is: It was fun.

Part of my platform when seeking control of this column was to ban all words of Arabic origin, and that's what I'm doing, fulfilling the wishes of the silent majority.

Move over, 1984. There's a new dystopian novel topping the charts.

Works of non-fiction dominate the longlist of this year's Stella Prize for books by women writers.

Literary news and events.

Tanveer Ahmed is concerned with how mental health problems can have less to do with psychiatric disorder and more to do with social alienation or moral conflict.

A backstory is coming. 

Libby Angel's The Trapeze Act is a high-flying novel that jumps from 19th-century England and Australia to 1960s Adelaide.

Mei Fong found the real world of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four in China.

Christine Dibley ambitiously combines three incompatible genres: the police-procedural, the family saga, and a kind of Celtic-Australian magic realism.

City of Friends is the story of four ambitious, well-to-do women in their forties confronting various life changes.

The Atheist Muslim is part wrestling match with the beliefs of Ali A. Rizvi's community, part meditation on Islam and its discontents.

Innocents and Others is awash in the pre-digital technologies of late modernism, especially fancy cameras and phones.

In his graphic memoir, Marcelino Truong captures the child's perspective and life in a war zone.