Blue-collar singer Jimmy Barnes officially an award-winning author for his memoir.

Literary news and events.

David Grann tells the story of a shocking 1920s conspiracy to murder people of the Osage Nation to gain the wealth they received from oil rights.

George Saunders was a passenger on a commercial United Airlines jet that flew into a flock of geese outside of Chicago and almost fell to earth.

Catherine McKinnon loved how David Mitchell told several stories in different genres to create his novel Cloud Atlas.

You can rely on the Australian vernacular to provide all sorts of curly questions about origins and timelines.

The real point of Cory Doctorow's Walkaway isn't the plot or the explosions, it's the ideas that burst from every page.

Film maker Neil Jordan reworks the classic device of the changeling in his latest, unsettling novel.

Krissy Kneen's latest novel, An Uncertain Grace, is ambitious and her best yet.

Paul Beatty takes aim at both the oblivious privilege of white America, and the destructiveness of aspects of African-American culture.

When the indigenous actress and director, Leah Purcell, took out her mother's tattered copy of Henry Lawson's short stories, she had no idea that the script she would bang out in seven days would be named Book of the Year in the NSW Premier's Literary Awards Monday night.

The Sydney author's elegantly written stories put a darkly macabre spin on fairytales.

Australian comedians are taking the marriage equality fight directly into people's headphones.

"He only whispers I love you as he slips his hands down the waistband of your pants," Rupi Kaur writes.

It's not difficult to see echoes of our own world in the dark vision of Sally Abbott's prize-winning dystopian novel, Closing Down.

Simon Wroe's coming of age story resists over-earnestness thanks to plenty of oddball comedy.

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Laurent Binet's elaborate, amusing and parodic conspiracy thriller about the death of Roland Barthes.

Paula Hawkins tops the Australian fiction bestsellers chart.

The author has stepped up a notch here, writing with more clarity, complexity and emotional breadth.

This year's Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelists show a concern for the role of home in their characters' lives.

A justifiably angry book about the struggle for artists to receive royalties for their work in the internet age.

A long overdue reassessment of our historical imbalances.

This entertaining study charts the history of the career of air hostessing for women

A lively study of our history with rabbits and their place in our folklore.