Imagine a future where the mass produced paperback is regarded as a book shelf dinosaur.

Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has found her own voice on race and gender: blunt, compassionate and unorthodox.

Sarah Arvio's 'Poet In Spain' is the first major English translation of Federico Garcia Lorca since 1991.

Literary news and events in Canberra.

The companion of David Astle's writing and his first editor has left to fend with words on his own.

Amy Tan cried the day The Joy Luck Club was published - not out of happiness but out of dread and fear of criticism. Now the bestselling author has accidentally produced a memoir that spans her traumatic family history, her writing life and even includes a childhood drawing of a cat. Once again, she is apprehensive.

Gardenias became the unexpected imagery of grief for Amy Tan after her older brother and father died.

Alex Miller makes no bones about using the architecture of his life and that of his friends as inspiration and material for his award-winning fiction.

John Green, the best-selling author of The Fault in Our Stars, has used his own experience to write a novel about anxiety and the damage it can do to young people.

The first Penguin Book of Australian verse had a profound effect on Roger McDonald when he encountered it as a teenager.

They may be written for younger adults but there is a philosophical depth to Phillip Pullman's books that attracts many adult readers too.

Australian literary legend Henry Lawson belongs just as much with the LGBTQI movement of today as with any of the sentimental nationalist and political movements that have made him their poster boy, according to Miles Franklin award winner Frank Moorhouse.

Jane Harper has followed in the footsteps of Peter Temple and Michael Robotham by winning Britain's Gold Dagger award.

Adventurer and pilot Michael Smith had the wind beneath his wings in his quest to circumnavigate the world in a seaplane. Then cloud cover – and panic – set in.

Maggie Beer tops the food and drink bestseller chart.

Some of Tom Hanks' stories have a late flourish of irony, as if Hanks has sudden misgivings about their niceness. But that irony only accentuates the flat-out goodness of his people.

"It's been so much fun. I think I'm going to have trouble going home and taking out the garbage," says Man Booker Prize winner George Saunders.

Ellen van Neerven was the subject of appalling treatment on social media from students who were being examined on one of her poems.

There's much more meaning to a market than simply a place to buy fresh food.

If you loved Laurel and Hardy, you probably felt poor Stan Laurel was bossed about by big Oliver Hardy. Reading John Connolly's novel will sort this out for you.

Even if Elizabeth Asbrink's 1947 does not live up to its claim for the beginning of "now", it should be read for its poetry and its insights.

Through her explorations of the urban ulterior, Vanessa Berry takes position as Sydney's most prominent and prolific flaneuse.

When the bombs started falling on Aleppo, Bana Alabed's ordinary, middle-class life changed rapidly.

The contribution of a wider community of emigre designers from Middle Europe has frequently been ignored.