Everything I Don't Remember: A cool and thought-provoking novel
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The underlying premise of this Swedish novel is that no one person can accurately describe another, as an unnamed writer discovers.
The underlying premise of this Swedish novel is that no one person can accurately describe another, as an unnamed writer discovers.
In a sensitised state after her daughter was born, Sarah Armstrong found herself worrying about all the children who could not rely on the adults around them. Their vulnerability, their defencelessness kept her awake at night.
Alan Brough has been a broadcaster, dancer, singer and is known on ABC TV's Spicks and Specks as a professional music nerd. He has always wanted to be a writer and his first children's book is Charlie and the War Against the Grannies (Pan Australia).
The magnetic Brit performer's unmissable one-off show a Melbourne Writers Festival highlight.
Hit horror writer Joe Hill hid the fact he was Stephen King's son, he tells Guy Kelly.
Brent Underwood decided he would be a bestselling author on Amazon. He was surprised at how easy it was. It took him just five minutes, and he didn't even have to write a book.
For many years the final resting place of pioneering crime writer Mary Fortune was unknown. Until now, that is.
Anthony Lawrence's 16th poetry collection, Headwaters, adds a welcome diversity to his work.
Brenda Niall has won Australia's oldest literary award for her acclaimed biography of Archbishop Mannix.
Dying: A Memoir by Cory Taylor, who died this week, speaks out against the muzzle Western society had placed on discussing death. By Leah Kaminsky.
Cory Taylor, a fine Australian writer, has died within weeks of the rush-publication of her last book, Dying: A Memoir.
Pretty much wherever you go in Australia, this book will enhance your natural history experience.
Lionel Shriver and Alexei Sayle are two of the early names released for this year's Melbourne Writers Ffestival.
Ben Pobjie's take on Australian history is not so much black armband as red nose and spinning light-up bow tie.
Biography is a growing genre in Australian writing, says historian Peter Cochrane.
Megan Bradbury tries to capture the essence of New York through the lives of four denizens.
Talent such as Helen Oyeyemi's is rare.
Donald Trump is a monstrous comic book supervillain threatening to destroy the world.
Tom Griffiths' stimulating book, among many things, is a plea for the abiding relevance of history.
It's time we grapple with violent language.
Jane Harper's debut crime novel The Dry is number one in the independent charts but faces a strong challenge from Annie Proulx's epic Barkskins.
Robert Colvile examines how the god of speed has transformed technology and us.
Jeremy Corbyn is the unlikely leader of the British Labour Party. How did he get there (and will he stay there)?
Kate Leigh thought she was performing community service, but the police had other ideas about the brothel keeper and criminal.
Randa Abdel-Fattah's novel has plenty of multicultural vitamin and its target audience will find its characters lively and relatable.
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