London:​ Kazuo Ishiguro's wife was just settling into the hairdresser's chair when her phone rang. Then she made an apology her stylist was unlikely ever to have heard before.

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls tops the biographies bestseller chart.

I've got just the book for a tween who is hungry for zany words and quizzes, puzzles and explanations.

China Mieville's account of the Russian Revolution has an enlivened sense of an action that tends to be more massive and more animated than any individual involved.

Richard Flanagan won the Booker Prize for his previous novel. His new one plays with the relationship and creative tensions between a ghostwriter and his subject.

If you're travelling overseas it's always worth visiting a bookshop.

A year teaching in Afghanistan proved life-changing for Eddie Ayres.

This is a brightly coloured and surely exaggerated portrait of a manic woman who bashes people with rolling pins and tries to get everything for free.

The author of umpteen disquieting crime novels has switched genres and her new book is historical fiction.

Catherine Cole's writing is beautiful, full of intelligence and grace, and always suggestively understated.

The unvarnished testimony of these letters and documents speaks volumes about the weight of responsibility felt by survivors such as Primo Levi to ensure that the world never forgot the horrors of the Holocaust.

At a low point in her life, Lisa Dempster returned to the Japanese island of Shikoku, and took its 1200-kilometre pilgrim trail in the footsteps of the famous Buddhist monk Kobo Daishi.

Tom Hazard ages significantly slower than others; people like him are not supposed to fall in love. So what happens when he does?

To understand better the mystery of plants and learn from them to learn about us, we need to redefine what we mean by language.

Of all the short fiction that has blown musician and writer Tim Rogers sideways, it is Barry Hannah's that he treasures most.

Literary news and events in Canberra

The US author said she wrote the book to explore questions of memory and complicity.

According to Nick Brodie, the fighting in Tasmania to remove the Indigenous population from their land was far more conventionally warlike than previously thought.

Award-winning novelist Jennifer Egan found it hard to get comfortable in the world she was creating for her first historical novel, Manhattan Beach, which is set in the Brooklyn Navy Yard during the 1940s.

Puns work by creating collusion between coiner and decoder, forging a gnostic circle of sorts. This same transference is enacted in our brains as well, according to new research.

Jay Kristoff's Godsgrave tops the Sci-Fi Fantasy best-sellers chart.

Years after the first attempt was abandoned, the story of a sibling's drowning 'pounded on the door'.

Miles Franklin-winning novelist Sofie Laguna was moved by the simple writing of M.J. Hyland in her novel This is How.

There has been a weekly book market at Fed Square for 14 years, but it looks as if the final instalment is approaching.