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Big names to headline Canberra Writers Festival 2017
After a successful inaugural year, the Canberra Writers Festival has attracted some big names.
After a successful inaugural year, the Canberra Writers Festival has attracted some big names.
Helen Fielding's latest Bridget Jones book has won Britain's Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction. The prize includes champagne and a pig.
To read Down the Hume, Peter Polites' fierce first novel, is to step into the literary wilds.
Writers appointed to work side-by-side with researchers tackling some of the biggest public health scourges of modern times.
Young Irish writer Lisa McInerney's storytelling is clever, rich and dark.
This historical romance explores some intriguing possibilities about the Romani people in 19th century Australia.
Social researcher Hugh Mackay's seventh novel recalls the fiction of David Lodge.
This polished first novel treads a delicate and frightening line between the present and the future
An entertaining chronicle of the famously kitsch song contest.
Just as hair follicles spell our DNA, so do semicolons and adjectives unmask authors.
Elegantly written essays explore the melancholy of post-natal depression.
A moving memoir about the arbitrariness of binary gender divisions and how they box us all in.
The remarkable true story of a penniless young man who transforms himself into the "uncrowned king of Simla".
The story of Jewish-Australians in almost every Australian military conflict up to the present day.
At the 11th annual Clunes Booktown writers festival, women writers dominated.
J.K. Rowling has pleaded for the return of a Harry Potter manuscript that has been stolen.
JK Rowling called for help from all the muggles out there after a Harry Potter script was stolen.
Neglected as a child, Rosie Waterland finds solace in her mother's chicken soup as an adult.
Rebe Taylor's book is the latest entry in the history wars; her aim is to unearth proof of the antiquity of Tasmanian Aboriginal people.
The veteran ABC broadcaster Mark Colvin has signed off for good. His was a massive intellect and a rare talent.
Australian author takes out the world's richest literary prize for young writers for her short story collection.
An original May Gibbs painting will find a new home at the National Centre for Australian Children's Literature in Canberra
Australian-Chinese novelist Ouyang Yu explores the life of a World War I digger who is little known or celebrated outside Queensland
This Pulitzer prize-winning writer says he was scrupulous about the historical detail in his novel about slaves escaping the southern states.
American archaeologist Eric Cline believes archaeology matters to everyone
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