Tony Birch has become the first indigenous writer to win the Patrick White Literary Award, set up by White with the proceeds from his 1973 Nobel Prize.

The second volume of Jimmy Barnes' memoirs tops the independent bestsellers chart.

Literary news and events in Canberra.

Latin-American writer began her latest novel in state of gloom, but some cheerfulness breaks through.

Dogs simply won't lie down, and insist on having their say even in questions of usage, etymology and meaning.

The biggest influence on Tess Evans and her love of reading was her father.

James McAdams surveys the communist party in all its national manifestations.

Shevaun Cooley's and Domnique Hecq's collections of poetry have very different ways of elegising ideals of home.

Shaun Micallef's retelling of Grimm's fairytales resembles a Stephen Sondheim musical crossed with Lemony Snicket.

Pretty much every one of Sydney's major arts organisations will be forced to decamp over the next few years in a period of unprecedented upheaval brought about by massive renovations to key parts of the city's cultural infrastructure.

The interest in Queen Victoria shows no signs of abating.

The author says her latest novel, The Tea Gardens, is her most daring trip yet.

If you know about writers only from stories in the media, you might well assume it's not that hard to make money. You would be wrong.

Two autobiographical graphic novels deal with the depression of one of the authors.

Salman Rushdie's latest novel combines his bombastic bravura with reminders the man is a spellbinder.

This collective biography of four talented fashion designers and artists – Jenny Kee, Linda Jackson, Peter Tully and David McDiarmid – testifies to a period of creative and colourful experimentation.

This rousing book, which documents the story of Sirius, its inhabitants and the struggle to save it, is a raised fist in the face of the almighty dollar.

Micheline Jenner's excitement and gratitude for her encounters with whales make this book a delight

Yanis Varoufakis draws effortlessly on Greek myth, European literature and contemporary film to breathe life into a discipline dominated by ideologically driven number-crunching.

This book could easily become twee, but somehow it never quite does, and we're left with a man and his cat on a road trip that is funny and sweet.

In Judy Nunn's novel when eight asylum seekers wash up nearby, the inhabitants of a fishing village react in different ways.

Each of the main characters in The Lone Child has a stereotyped and unpleasant view of the other, but what they have in common is their struggle with motherhood.

Amy Stewart does an impressive job of bringing her historical characters back to life.

Forgotten artist Ferdinand Bauer has been called "the Leonardo of natural history". Not only was he a brilliant illustrator of Australian wildlife but he could distinguish 200 shades of green as a new book and website attest.