Meg Mason knows what it's like to be a lonely new mother. Her first book, a memoir, Say It Again in a Nice Voice, touched a raw nerve.

Jane Harper continued her run of success with her debut novel, The Dry, at the Australian Crime Writers Association awards night.

"He is one of the people that made the Holocaust possible", says author Rachel Seiffert of her grandfather.

Plans for an all-female movie of William Golding's young adult classic novel Lord of the Flies have been roundly mocked online.

Terry Pratchett, the well-known British fantasy author, has had a wish fulfilled two years after his death.

Xavier Herbert's Capricornia helped David Hill understand the devastation of many Indigenous communities following white colonisation and settlement.

The Girl From Munich is a historical drama written from the point of view of a committed German nationalist who slowly comes to her senses.

No announcer can hope to man – sorry, operate – a mic and dodge every lexical landmine. We all have our gripes.

Jenny Zhang's collection of short stories, Sour Heart, is the first book published by Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner's imprint in the US.

The Last Tudor tops the fiction bestseller charts.

The theme of the 2017 Melbourne Writers Festival is Revolution, but not all the writers at the first weekend were rushing to man the barricades.

Rachel Matthews renders Jordi's fate and the culture behind it with sharp urgency and a surprisingly delicate hand.

Charlie Jane Anders writes impossibly hip fiction with the voice and cultural inflections of the millennials at her command.

Christina Henry takes a perverse, infectious delight in tarnishing the squeaky clean image of the putative hero of Neverland, Peter Pan.

The Parcel, is set in Mumbai's red-light district – a place of terrible poverty and unspeakable crime but also the adrenaline of life on the edge.

 While it's been 20 years since we were first introduced to Harry Potter, the boy wizard still seems able to work his magic.

Australians Google the weather more than they Google sex.

In his new history, Sean McMeekin warns of the rise of Marxist-style socialism in the West.

Kim Scott will open the Melbourne Writers Festival with an address about our national identity.

There's something for fans of politics, crime and even some events for the kids.

New Shoots has commissioned 10 poets to respond to plants and places in the Royal Botanic Gardens for the Melbourne Writers Festival.

The Australian Light Horse action at Beersheba in 1917 was one of the last victorious charges in history.

The so-called "friendly games" of the 1956 Melbourne Olympiad were far from that.

Jessica Bell's writing of matches the raw emotions she's often depicting in this rites-of-passage memoir.