Fans will have to keep waiting for the next installment in George R.R Martin's Westeros saga

Any language adjusts the words it imports from other languages to fit the recipient's system.

As Christos Tsiolkas points out, Patrick White ticks a lot of the wrong boxes, according to the literary politics of our time: he is white, male, patrician, canonical.

The legacies of violence and the crimes of Ivan Milat haunts this year's The Australian/Vogel's Literary Prize winner.

On the eve of her Australian tour Jennifer Egan opens up about the importance of place, Donald Trump and family dramas.

Monash, a famed engineer from Melbourne, brought his bridge-building methodology to his battle plan.

There is a detached, ironic touch to James Jeffreys' memoir that is simply and movingly written.

The sheer frenzy of things are expressions of a frantic life that denies us quietude.

Neville Morley's essay is also a snapshot of the evolution of Classics

Charles Frazier turns his Civil War lens on the life of the young woman who married the Confederacy's leader, Jefferson Davis,

John Julius Norwich delivers some wonderfully vivid portraits of France, showing there are more than three colours to its history.

Jackie French is donating 200 of her books to help restock Tathra homes lost in the recent bushfires. She is not alone.

Screenwriter Ruth Jones has produced a debut novel that seems to get lost in the freedom of the form.

Sunburnt Country is situated at the intersection of history and science and explores the mechanisms that underpin the extreme variability of the Australian climate.

This psychological thriller set in 1950s Tangiers blends shades of Hitchcock and Highsmith in an exotic locale.

Roger Averill explores the vexed terrain between a father and son.

Patrick Ness turns teenage angst and fears into addictive books and films but even he thinks his next project is a little strange.

American novelist Amy Bloom says she has only four subjects: love, family, sex and death, ''which I think is plenty''.

A story that is a celebration of personal possibility and a portrait of a moment of transformative change.

Holly Ringland's storytelling in The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart is driven by an undimmed sense of wonder at the darkness and light.

In Craig Sherborne's novel muckraking journalist Callum Smith determines to rewrite his own story with the same unscrupulous means by which he writes the stories of others.

While there has been a renewed concentration of power in Russia, the country is nowhere near as oppressive as North Korea.

The writer and essayist Beverley Farmer has died.

Although her book Unbelievable is a first-hand account of Donald Trump's presidential campaign rather than a work of political analysis, Katy Tur does attempt to explain his appeal.