Garth Nix's latest book is a fairytale with a difference.

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Garth Nix's latest book is a fairytale, which is appropriate given his life has something of the fairytale about it.

Quirky cafes, fetish shops, avant garde theatre and indy music: new book captures the heyday of Brunswick Street, Fitzroy.

In his monumental new novel, 4 3 2 1, Paul Auster takes a man's life and reworks it so we see four different versions of the same story, or is it?

Lindy West is anything but shrill.

Antigone Kefala's Fragments and Diana Fahey's A House by the River are marked by a strong thematic coherence.

Right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos' publisher has cancelled his planned book after a video emerged of the him defending sex with children.

How you pronounce the word Manuka – honey or suburb – opens up something of a can of worms.

The work of the great Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges was Alberto Manguel's entry into the literary world.

Robin Dalton has lived life to the full and looks back on some escapades, romances and sadnesses in her second memoir written 52 years after the first.

Patricia and Don Edgar argue that middle age can be the apex of our lives.

The novel has a strong sense of place and a cast of complex, vividly realised characters.

Christina Baker Kline has taken a powerfully creepy icon of American art and fleshed out the real-life story

Kate Liston-Mills' stories follow a small cast of characters over two generations, drilling down into the details of daily life.

Rob Snarski's vignettes and memories make for a whimsical picture of a musician's life.

This collection of essays takes the reader to the delights of bookshops all over the world.

In this "memoir" the many sides Caroline Simpson emerge through the recollections of those who knew and loved her.

Lucy Durneen has a gift for the matching of word and mood, and an unflinching awareness of human weakness.

Anyone over 18 can enter Amazon's e-book award, and any kind of book is eligible as long as it is unpublished, in English and more than 5000 words

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The forthcoming memoir by the "alt right" provocateur and Trump supporter, Milo Yiannopoulos will not be published in Australia.

What really saves South of Forgiveness is the blossoming of Thordis Elva and Tom Stranger's personal quest into something larger.

In The Case Against Fragrance, Kate Grenville carries the weight of her topic lightly with simple prose and an easy narrative.