Twenty years ago two mothers living in a desert community on the edge of the St George Ranges in Western Australia began creating school resources in the Walmajarri language: books, posters and counting cards.

In 2017 libraries are at a digital crossroads. Author Stuart Kells ponders their future.

The acronyms of the crossword world can help you in your attempt to solve the latest puzzle taxing your grey matter.

Jordie Albistion's Euclid's Dog has a loosely autobiographical dimension to it, starting with childhood, moving on to adolescence and so on through to some love poems that seem very much of the moment.

Odd Arne Westad knows that from the moral point of view there was no equivalence between the communists and the capitalists during the Cold War.

It's all about the writer when it comes to Australia's most significant literary prize, the Miles Franklin.

There was quite an emphasis on historical fiction at the final weekend of the Melbourne Writers Festival.

Chris Womersley has already been hailed for his daring in the novels he writes. Now he's gone further with a new novel about witchcraft in 17th-century France.

While not as breezy as his previous two novels you've got to admire Jock Serong's ambition and his willingness to move out of his noir comfort zone.

Laurie Penny just might be perfectly placed, as a multidimensional outsider–insider, to look objectively at our culture and report back on it.

A New England Affair is the most intimate of Steven Carroll's portraits of T.S. Eliot for the historical Eliot and the historical Emily Hale almost certainly did fall in love.

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.

Alyssa Mastromonaco brings an upfront approach to her account of working for President Obama and how she got there.

The Threefold Cord is the club three chidlren have made of their friendship. It involves a secret drink and the eating of raw onions - a sly wink to adult readers? - and is dedicated to the principles of kindness and courage.

There are five stories in Basket of Deplorables, all casually linked in the manner that Frank Moorhouse once described as "discontinuous narrative".

In Garry Disher's latest novel it is 1909 and a hawker living on stony land he calls a "farm" has bought himself three women and girls as his slaves.

Sunlight and Seaweed offers an excellent model for how best to communicate the challenges posed by climate change.

Stuart Kells has compiled an enchanting compendium of well-told tales and musings both on the physical and metaphysical dimensions of the library.

In documenting his own journey, Phil Jarratt is representative of a generation of male surfers for whom surfing, partying and in Jarratt's case writing about it trumped everything else.

All My Goodbyes is the first in a series exploring resonances common to writers in the southern hemisphere.

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