In 2012, I had one of those experiences about which every book collector dreams. I'd spent a beautiful late summer's day in Oxfordshire researching George Orwell's childhood and had arranged to meet a friend in my favourite English pub, The Three Tuns.
Is there a place for apostrophes or hyphens in crossword clues? Opinions differ.
A coveted British Crime Writers Debut Dagger award got publishers moving on Mark Brandi and his first novel, Wimmera.
It began with a Facebook share that awakened the trolls and ended with more than 2000 people showing their support to an iconic Brisbane bookstore.
Karin Slaughter was influenced as a writer and as a woman by Sara Paretsky's books.
Judith Mackrell weaves together stories of three unique women and the palazzo they each at one time owned on Venice's Grand Canal.
Though Wayne Macauley's allegorical prowess remains undimmed, his latest is straightforward and direct.
According to Jodie Archer and Matthew Jockers, there is an answer to the apparent randomness of major commercial success in popular fiction that emerges when the data is mined by computers.
Cities can provide the perfect atmospheric backdrop to a crime novel, says Booker Prize winner John Banville. Just think of Raymond Chandler's mean streets of Los Angeles.
Writers looking for a quiet, inspirational space are seeking out the worn past.
In the doll-house setting of See What I Have Done, the tension rises with the thermometer. The reader knows blood will flow, but who will crack first?
In telling her father's story, Rebecca Stott also tells her own – what it was like to be a child in such a fundamentalist sect and how it left its mark on her.
White Fur is as much about class difference and privilege as it is about obsessive love. Elise is a streetwise girl from the wrong side of the tracks, and Jamey is a young heir to an East Coast fortune.
A reader needs some compelling reason to remain in the company of an unlikeable narrator. In Andrea's case in All Grown Up, the reason is her family.
The key to parenting, says Helen Hayward, is to accept that family life is infused with "two distinct feelings – love and panic".
Even at their most amplified Joy Williams' stories are more flash fiction or micro-fiction. But all are thought-provoking and most of them very funny.
Stephen Orr's work continues to have a prominent place in the literary mapping and recording of South Australia and Adelaide.
As well as revisiting memorable moments of the tour, Dominic Dromgoole's account explores Hamlet itself in light of particular issues thrown up by the country in question.
All the essayists in this collection acknowledge the crucial importance of the support of their mothers, grandmothers, aunts, sisters and elders in sustaining them.
Do you know your Pogrebin from your Porlock?
Boxes of books are popping up on front lawns, in parks and on streets all over Australia. They're getting communities reading, fostering friendships and even sparking romances.
What's on in the Canberra literary scene, June 24, 2017
Consisting of two sections of a notebook Joan Didion kept in the '70s, South and West provides readers the chance to witness an inimitable writer at work.
Grace Helbig is an internet superstar. She is a doyenne of YouTube, host of a celebrity interview podcast, star of a superhero web series, author of two lifestyle guidebooks and – in one obscure corner of the web – protagonist of pages upon pages of fan-written stories that recast her persona into seemingly endless fictional scenarios.
Lily Woodhouse was astonished by Coonardoo when she read first Katherine Susannah Pritchard's novel.
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