Bond's character is beloved by generations, selling millions of books and spawning TV and film versions.

Is there a place for apostrophes or hyphens in crossword clues? Opinions differ.

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.

Judith Mackrell seamlessly weaves together the stories of these three women and the palazzo they each at one time owned on Venice's Grand Canal

Though Wayne Macauley's allegorical prowess remains undimmed, Some Tests is perhaps the most straightforward and direct book he's written.

According to Jodie Archer and Matthew Jockers, there is an answer to the apparent randomness of major commercial success in popular fiction that emerges when the data is mined by computers.

Cities can provide the perfect atmospheric backdrop to a crime novel, says Booker Prize winner John Banville. Just think of Raymond Chandler's mean streets of Los Angeles.

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

In the doll-house setting of See What I Have Done, the tension rises with the thermometer. The reader knows blood will flow, but who will crack first?

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

Consisting of two sections of a notebook Joan Didion kept in the '70s, South and West provides readers the chance to witness an inimitable writer at work.

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.