October is the Coldest Month should win over a younger audience to the ice and the cold, the grime and grit that Scandi noir does so well.

In 'The Vanishing of Audrey Wilde', Eve Chase has created an eerie and double-edged mystery.

Mike McCormack's Solar Bones draws on its Irish literary antecedents with astonishing talent.

The Australian villains who created havoc during the California gold rush.

Hannah Robert's account of losing her baby in a tragic accident is not only moving but beautifully written.

Peter Stanley's sensitive and astute text evokes both the sombre and complex nature of the times when Australia was immersed in WWI.

This is an informed and entertaining beginner's guide through the most revolutionary century in the history of ideas.

Writers festival chief tells of painful, but uplifting, holy walk around Japanese island.

Australia's most significant literary award, the Miles Franklin, will be presented early in September. Here the five shortlisted authors offer insights into the writing of their novels.

Former special forces soldier Bram Connolly will talk all things military.

Revolution is the theme for this year's Melbourne Writers Festival. A whirlpool of discussion about protest, oppression and war will dominate the stage but the program also promises ideas for change and new directions.

Literary news and events in Canberra.

Kim Scott's latest novel, Taboo, is ambitious, unsentimental, untidy, challenging and very fine.

Two stellar ABC journalists have written their first books of crime fiction and they don't disappoint.

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The modern resilience myth is founded on a bounce-back rhetoric, as if humans are squash balls, and adversity doesn't leave its traces.

Georgia Blain died 13 months after being diagnosed with a brain tumour, In those months, she wrote almost continuously and her final book, The Museum of Words, will be published later this month.

In the course of his entertaining series of autobiographical sketches, Andrew Ford tells us how music replaced religion in his life – "what I thought was God now I think was Beethoven".

It was Dava Sobel's delicate depiction of obsession, Longitude, that encouraged Michael Pryor to start reading non-fiction again.

Minecraft is one of the most successful video games in the world. Now there is Minecraft: The Novel - who would have believed it possible?

With more than 100 authors across eight iconic locations, we've narrowed down the best of the Canberra Writers Festival

Top 10 Bestsellers

It's possible to see the influence of Gerald Murnane on Shaun Prescott's The Town, in its style and in its focus on the strangeness of banality.

The Mountain of Light is perhaps the most famous diamond in the world and its story involves the machinations of the Moghuls, Persians, Sikhs and British.

Sarah Winman's themes in Tin Man are the intensity and reality of youthful friendships and the emotional dynamics of sexuality.