Michael Robotham won't give up too many secrets
Michael Robotham took quite a few risks for his latest novel, The Secrets She Keeps
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Melbourne Writers Festival: Thinking for the dark times
It might be the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution but the Melbourne Writers Festival isn't entirely dwelling on the past by choosing Revolution as the all-embracing theme for the 33rd instalment of the annual literary beanfeast.
Celebrating the genius of Jane Austen 200 years after her death
The novels of Jane Austen have a lot to say about Australia's current crop of politicians, say experts.
What's on in the Canberra arts scene, July 15, 2017
The Canberra Writers Festival in August is shaping up nicely.
Litbits July 15 2017
Literary news and events in Canberra.
See artworks from your favourite kid's books at UC
An exhibition of original artworks from some of Australia's best loved children's books offers a rare insight.
JK Rowling says she has an unpublished manuscript
The rest of us muggles might stock our closets with board games and other junk – JK Rowling's is housing every Harry Potter fan's dream.
Wordplay: Word fusions are a habit we can't shake.=
My blood always races whenever a fresh batch of words needs assessing.
Fiction review: A Boy in Winter
A painful yet compelling story of pure narrative without authorial intervention.
Fiction review: Siracusa
A New York novel that starts off dark – and only gets darker.
Fiction review: Lady of the Realm
A beautiful and horrifying novella examining the history of Buddhism in Vietnam.
Giving famous authors fresh, fictional lives
Lives exalted and artistic triumphs celebrated in recasting a trio of literary greats.
Fiction review: The End We Start From
A dystopian tale that resonated in the contemporary real world.
Patrick Ness: I have written the sort of book I would have liked as a teenager
Author of teen fiction knows it's important to identify with all characters in his new novel Release.
Books That Changed Me
Jamila Rizvi found Maxine Beneba Clarke's The Hate Race an uncomfortable but inspiring read.
Non-fiction review: Hats
A cultural history of hats in the West.
Non-fiction review: The Many Ways of Seeing
An unorthodox memoir of the "ways of seeing" that a blind person experiences.
Non fiction review: Scribbles in the Margins - 50 Eternal Delights of Books
Bibliophile Daniel Gray celebrates the rituals of reading.
Non-fiction review: Donald Horne Selected Writings
A satisfying selection of writing by journalist-turned public intellectual Donald Horne.
Crime review: dark and diverting Scandi thriller
Detective Harry Hole is forced to deal with a very modern serial killer.
Fabulist fashions a path beyond the jungle
Hungarian writer Laszlo Krasznahorkai's serves up bite-sized fiction marvels.
The dark web's modern-day Mansons
An intriguing exploration of the individual, the internet and the state in three non-fiction essays.
A 'man-woman' murder mystery that defies belief
Lurid story of 1820's 'man-woman' murder mystery raises questions that still defy conventional answers.
Authors choose to tread a lighter literary path
why more an more writers are 'downsizing' from major publishing houses.
Litbits July 8 2017
Literary events in Canberra,
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