Hugh Mackay's Selling the Dream: The ad man as anti-hero
Social researcher Hugh Mackay's seventh novel recalls the fiction of David Lodge.
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
Henry Marsh has prised tumours from brains for more than 40 years as a leading neurosurgeon and still has no idea how that mass gives rise to consciousness, thought and feeling.
A fictional 11-year-old spy inspired Mariko Tamaki to write novels and graphic novels
An entertaining chronicle of Europe as seen through the famously kitsch contest.
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.
Women writers dominated the annual Clunes festival, in its 11th year and growing.
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.
Pulitzer prize-winning writer Colson Whitehead says he was scrupulous about the historical detail in his new novel.
American archaeologist digs up arguments to illustrate that archaeology matters to everyone.
Michael Sala's second novel is sensitively rendered with a fine eye for emotional and physical detail.
Elizabeth Strout conjures playfully subversive tales at dreamy odds with reality.
The reading influences on Krissy Kneen range from Ray Bradbury to Anais Nin.
Literary news and events.
If Gay Talese's journalism is like fiction, it is vast, multi-character, reader-seducing 19th-century fiction that it most resembles.
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