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Billie B Brown author and new Australian Children's Laureate Sally Rippin reveals the secret behind her success. 

The cultural role of bookshops is in the spotlight after the owner of Victoria's oldest independent bookshop posted on social media, calling for "kids picture books with just white kids on the cover". Authors, booksellers and a publisher on the power of booksellers.

Melbourne poet Grace Yee has won Australia's richest literary award, the Victorian Prize for Literature, for her debut verse novel, Chinese Fish.

Culture, family, colonisation and resistance are some of the themes uniting these acclaimed literary works by First Nations writers from Australia.

The question of what constitutes a sacred space in our increasingly secular society is at the heart of Amanda Lohrey's new novel The Conversion.

Legendary writer Neil Gaiman will perform alongside string quartet FourPlay at the Sydney Opera House for the World Premiere of their album, Signs of Life.

A juicy memoir, a Pulitzer Prize winner and a rediscovered Italian classic feature in our holiday reading guide.

From dusty farming communities to sleepy seaside towns, crime fiction set in regional Australia is taking off. Here's why readers are devouring these stories.

Broken Hill residents say they remember the collective sadness in the town when it lost its only book store. Things have changed since then.

When the Stella Prize-winning author was diagnosed with breast cancer at the same time as her sisters, her life — and writing — changed forever.

The renowned author of The House of Youssef and The Lovers has been named Parramatta's inaugural Laureate in Literature. She says the area is home to a "golden generation" of writers.

From "an incredible debut" to a novel that "celebrates the joy that can be found in an ordinary, imperfect life" — these are our favourite reads of 2023.

The 50,000-pound ($96,000) prize was awarded to Irish writer Paul Lynch, for a dystopian novel set in an Ireland ruled by a fascist government. 

Much anticipated new works by winners of the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Booker Prize are the books our critics couldn't put down this month.

The director of a writers' festival in Australia says it's time women stopped apologising for being writers — and she suggests writing in your car if that's the only time you have.

Rhys Nicholson releases a new book 'Dish' which combines cooking and comedy.

In Exquisite Corpse, award-winning Australian author Marija Peričić gives voice to the women caught up in a man's macabre obsession with a dead patient.

Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita is notoriously difficult to adapt. But that hasn't stopped one Sydney theatre company staging a new production of the Russian literary masterpiece.

Her novella, Cold Enough for Snow, has seen the Melbourne author win the Prime Minister's Literary Award for fiction, while journalist-turned-farmer Sam Vincent won the non-fiction category for his book, My Father and Other Animals.

Richard Osman is one of the most popular authors on the planet, and he's in Australia for the first time promoting his new book, The Last Devil to Die.

Anna Funder's new book excoriates a truth unchanged from both before and after George Orwell's time: What women do in a marriage, in a family, creates more time for the other members of that family than they would ever have without her, writes Virginia Trioli.

The bestselling author of Boy Swallows Universe returns with Lola in the Mirror, a sweeping love story infused with magical realism set against Brisbane's gritty underbelly.

Miles Franklin and Stella Prize-winning authors come back with stunning offerings, while other writers make their debut in our best books of the month. Go on, dive in. 

In a new Apple TV+ documentary titled The Pigeon Tunnel, the late best-selling author John le Carré has a fascinating conversation about his childhood with a con-man father, his years working as a secret agent and his breakout success as the greatest author of spy fiction during the Cold War.

While some are optimistic about the streaming giant's move into audiobooks, others fear it will threaten authors' already precarious livelihoods.