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Australia's top selling gardening books
Habitat by A.B. Bishop tops the Australian gardening books bestsellers chart
Books that Changed Me: Alison Binks
Marilynne Robinson's Gilead gave Alison Binks insight into the whole notion of an interior life.
Peter James: The mystery caller who set me on a 30-year quest
Peter James' latest thriller was prompted by a mysterious phone call but it took him 30 years to write.
- by Peter Stanford
Litbits: Happenings in the Canberra literary scene, November 17, 2018
Here's what's going on around Canberra in the world of literature this month.
- by Karen Hardy
Wordplay: why words are David Astle's favourite plasticine
Why the best career ever is to be insatiably romantic about the semantic.
- by David Astle
The chance encounter that led to a TV adaptation 25 years later
Isobelle Carmody's award-winning book The Gathering is being transformed for television. But there's a twist.
- by Broede Carmody
Arts
Extraordinary true story of a combat cameraman wins literary prize
A ''drama-documentary'' featuring the war experiences of combat cameraman Mike Lewis has won a major literary award.
- by Linda Morris
Insomnia review: Marina Benjamin on the turbo-charge of sleeplessness
Marina Benjamin's account of how the sleepless mind wanders, free-associates, roams and transgresses is mimicked by the form of this book.
- by Fiona Capp
Beneath the Skin review: Essays on what goes on inside our bodies
The most surprising thing to emerge from this collection of essays on the inner life of the flesh is just how expendable are many of our body parts.
- by Fiona Capp
On Patriotism review: Paul Daley on the foundations Australia can be proud of
Paul Daley explores the stories we tell ourselves about who we are
- by Fiona Capp