When Craig Silvey was called in to translate his book, Jasper Jones, to film he did what many authors in a similar position find impossible to do: he began from scratch.

The forthcoming memoir by the "alt right" provocateur and Trump supporter, Milo Yiannopoulos will not be published in Australia.

Literary news and events in Canberra.

Helen Razer has been dumped, falls in a heap and then opts to go on a ton of dates in order to make sense of the whole business. This is her story.

If he was struggling for a word, Charles Dickens would come up with a perfect new one to capture a crucial feeling or action.

The novel takes place over an intense week in which the narrator Daniel's civilised veneer crumbles in the face of what he finds on the family farm.

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.

Australian author Liane Moriarty tops the fiction bestsellers chart.

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.

The story of Martin Luther King taught Sarafino Enadio to hold on to hope.

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.

At Harvard College Observatory from the late-19th century, women known as ''computers'' were recruited as flesh-and-blood number crunchers. Dava Sobel examines their crucial role in astronomical discovery.

Romance writers in Australia – and anywhere else, for that matter – are a formidable bunch of dedicated professionals who have spent years honing their craft.

Statistics show that violence against women is a growing problem in Australia. With barely contained narratorial fury, Kathryn Heyman gives some of these women voices.

The thread that connects Robert Manne's detailed analysis is the belief to properly understand the enemy is the first step to ensuring their defeat.

There's plenty of violence on Ian McGuire's Booker-longlisted novel The North Water, but it's all there to serve his purpose.

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.