It began with a Facebook share that awakened the trolls and ended with more than 2000 people showing their support to an iconic Brisbane bookstore.

Writers are always looking for a quiet, inspirational space, and it's considered a bonus if a famous author once inhabited it.

In telling her father's story, Rebecca Stott also tells her own – what it was like to be a child in such a fundamentalist sect and how it left its mark on her.

White Fur is as much about class difference and privilege as it is about obsessive love. Elise is a streetwise girl from the wrong side of the tracks, and Jamey is a young heir to an East Coast fortune.

A reader needs some compelling reason to remain in the company of an unlikeable narrator. In Andrea's case in All Grown Up, the reason is her family.

The key to parenting, says Helen Hayward, is to accept that family life is infused with "two distinct feelings – love and panic".

Even at their most amplified Joy Williams' stories are more flash fiction or micro-fiction. But all are thought-provoking and most of them very funny.

Stephen Orr's work continues to have a prominent place in the literary mapping and recording of South Australia and Adelaide.

As well as revisiting memorable moments of the tour, Dominic Dromgoole's account explores Hamlet itself in light of particular issues thrown up by the country in question.

All the essayists in this collection acknowledge the crucial importance of the support of their mothers, grandmothers, aunts, sisters and elders in sustaining them.

Do you know your Pogrebin from your Porlock?

Boxes of books are popping up on front lawns, in parks and on streets all over Australia. They're getting communities reading, fostering friendships and even sparking romances.

What's on in the Canberra literary scene, June 24, 2017

Grace Helbig is an internet superstar. She is a doyenne of YouTube, host of a celebrity interview podcast, star of a superhero web series, author of two lifestyle guidebooks and – in one obscure corner of the web – protagonist of pages upon pages of fan-written stories that recast her persona into seemingly endless fictional scenarios.

Lily Woodhouse was astonished by Coonardoo when she read first Katherine Susannah Pritchard's novel.

Pre-war dictionaries lodged data between dastard and date. Their follow-up volumes have conceded whole pages to the plague, listing databanks and data havens, data files and market data.

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Gabrielle Williams' fifth novel, "My Life as a Hashtag", serves a cautionary tale, bringing to light the darker aspects of social media.

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The turnback of the Tampa marked a sea change in national politics and inspired the writer's new work of fiction.

A tapestry designed and made with the help of 200 refugees tells a different tale to the one we hear.

Ben Hobson throws his hero, 13-year-old Sam, into the nightmarish world of a whaling station where at his father's bidding he has to learn to become a man.

Two books consider issues of being a Catholic today, spirituality, and what that entails.

Neuroscientist Joseph Jebelli has devoted himself to unravelling the mysteries of Alzheimer's disease since his grandfather succumbed to it.

The Barrier uses action-packed, tech-savvy speculative fiction to examine intractable problems from the world today.

Cold Vein is a frank, detailed account of how Chloe, Anne Tonner and her husband fought for their daughter's life.