The stars have aligned for the second Canberra Writers Festival

Author Michael Connelly is releasing his 30th book, The Late Show, and a new lead character.

Les Murray, the great poet, is bereft: his beloved typewriter has died and he's not sure where to find another these days.

David Sedaris' diaries begin in 1977 with him hitchhiking around America and having those horrible encounters that make for high-grade anecdotes.

When Benedict discovers his parents' bodies, his psyche is shattered. He only finds some sort of solace in the company of two horses.

Tex Perkins tells the story of his nearly 40 years music life, from a Queensland Uni one-night stand with Corpse of Christ to the venerable ilk of the Cruel Sea and the Beasts of Bourbon.

An unauthorised biography of Australia's first media magnate wins this year's National Biography Award.

Joyce Carol Oates is now 79 but shows no signs of slowing down her astonishingly productive writing life.

is it possible to have 300,000 books in your home, even if you do stack them in a strange manner?

Pachinko is an intergenerational narrative with the unputdownable quality of soap plus the satisfactions of prose that can disclose realities and a set of interconnected stories that mirror the movement of history.

These two books give us the testimony of various writers who visited Palestine at the invitation of an Israeli NGO, Breaking the Silence, or to attend the Palestine Festival of Literature.

Not Just Lucky is aimed at women of all ages, but is especially useful to those beginning their careers. It sure beats The Rules.

When mesmerist Thomas Guthrie Carr hypnotised a woman in the 19th century, the result was something of a scandal.

Killing Gravity is a dark bit of world-building that whets the appetite for a fully fleshed sequel.

David Craig immersed himself in all available material about the Bali bombings for this fascinating case study of a terrorist and a terrorist organisation.

In No Killing Sky, Liam Doyle unearths a sinister conspiracy that threatens to unleash environmental mayhem.

When Cassie Lane became a model, glamour came with the job, sex came along for the ride, and decadence was part of the pact.

In Losing It, Moira Burke creates an arresting sense of place, startling in its familiarity and strangeness.

When Chris Turney's party got stuck in the Antarctic ice, the experience of Douglas Mawson and Ernest Shackleton suddenly didn't seem so distant.

Hello, Goodbye is a lively, well-researched and affecting historical novel that touches on many social issues.

Michael Brissenden and Tony Jones have made their publishing debuts with political thrillers themed around international terrorism.

Every remarkable moment from the debut AFLW season has been memorialised in paper and ink as the first Women's Footy Almanac hits shelves.

Almost 50 years after his death, my brother Che is ever-present in the collective memory.

We are seeing a major shift in the development of children, particularly girls. We cannot afford to ignore it and hope it will go away.