One of Australia's absolutely essential poets, Fay Zwicky, has died on the weekend her Collected Poems was published.

Death of a She Devil is a kind of coda to a brilliant literary career that will charm anyone who can cotton on to the lilt of a sentence or the wit of a wise old woman

Strong young-adult fiction like Anna Spargo-Ryan's The Gulf should not preclude it from being enjoyed by adults.

Joel Dicker wrote a brilliant debut about a blocked writer on his second novel; his second novel feels somehow blocked.

Dragon Teeth takes a real-life rivalry between 19th-century palaeontologists, and transforms it into a clunky and unsatisfying historical novel.

The Forensic Records Society is the latest quirky, original parable from the sureal humorist Magnus Mills.

Peter Bishop is a writer, but what he's really known for is his conversations with writers. As one of many grateful recipients of his wisdom, I can tell you the uncanny way it unfolds.

Victor Klemeper's eyewitness account of revolt in Munich soon after World War I was written for a newspaper and has a distinctly man-on-the-spot feel to it.

The Sagrada Familia is the only building on earth begun in the 19th century (1882) and still being built today: work slowed drastically by the Spanish civil war.

Iain Ryan's hero Nate is in way over his head in an underworld where the only choices are between bad and worse.

Clive Small (a detective for 38 years) and Tom Gilling create a scary picture of the scale of the local drug trade and its overseas connections.

Briohny Doyle's sharp, entertaining, often amusing book explores the phenomenon of turning 30 through millennial eyes.

Roxane Gay's voice in Hunger is authentic and unafraid to be contradictory or controversial

In the era of data-driven politics, pressing the flesh and listening to voters still matter.

Analysis and insights on the forces at work and shortcomings of Hillary Clinton's 2016 election campaign.

The masterful Don Winslow's new book, The Force, is an epic crime novel about a corrupt cop and his crew in contemporary New York.

When she was at Radcliffe, Gertrude Stein always wore black and refused to wear a corset. Samuel Beckett liked Wallabee boots and Aran sweaters and settled on his hairstyle when he was 17. Edith Sitwell bought furnishing fabrics and had them made into dresses. William Burroughs "branded himself" in a suit and tie. Zadie Smith is rarely photographed without her head wrap.

A new theory suggests that George Orwell made a crucial change to the text of Nineteen Eighty-Four not long before he died.

Steven Lang's third novel, Hinterland, focuses on the interactions of a group of people in a small Queensland country town that is the focus of an environmental campaign.

Literary events in Canberra.

Book which details offences allegedly committed by Cardinal Pell will be removed from sale in Victoria.

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

In 2012, I had one of those experiences about which every book collector dreams. I'd spent a beautiful late summer's day in Oxfordshire researching George Orwell's childhood and had arranged to meet a friend in my favourite English pub, The Three Tuns.

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