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.

Fiona McIntosh thought she would have to pack her suitcases away when she took up writing. How wrong she was.

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.

There is a funny sort of appeal about autographs. A new book shows off some of the National Library's collection of the signatures of famous names.

Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights taught novelist Chris Womersley that the best characters don't have to be likeable.

Interior designer Miv Watts reveals an array of authentically eccentric – and beautifully cluttered – homes of famous arty types in her new book. Not a trace of minimalism here.

For a comedian who has never been afraid to be outspoken, Russell Brand's latest book about addiction is something of a surprise. But he's as passionate as ever.

TOP 10: Chris Masters' No Front Line tops the History & Military bestsellers list.

• Wordplay

David Astle has always been curious to fill his mental blanks. But one Google doodle succeeded in magnifying one particular blank to Siberian proportions.

Bob Graham's books have a warmth that is rooted in their affection for domestic life, eccentric characters, animals, simple narratives and a sense of tolerance and community.

Amit Chaudhuri's style of autofiction is laden with tart observations about literary life. At times, these transform into guerrilla literary criticism.

All the Dirty parts is a book about contemporary adolescent sexuality written in a way that doesn't seem moralising or smutty.

Marcel Theroux's The Secret Books deals in the power of fiction to change reality through a subversive historical novel.

Sydney-based writer Sophie Hamley offers a brand-new adventure for Julian, Dick, George and Anne, who have all grown up and decided to spend a gap year in present-day Australia.

PMs have gathered more power and influence over time, which has made them more vulnerable.