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Considering that she has been such a powerful presence in Australian poetry for at least the past ...
In a strange and compelling literary project, the author combines Proustian self-consciousness with ...
A triumphant return by a literary great to long-form storytelling.
In a strong year for emerging writers, The Sydney Morning Herald shines a spotlight on six ...
Hannah Kent has a fine turn of phrase. It is this, more than anything, that makes Agnes ...
As A Man in Love slowly opened up to me, I began to make sense of the grand architecture of ...
Our cultural divide is an issue that needs to be seriously discussed.
This is also a portrait of the inner life of a most unconventional family.
In James Salter's fiction, true carnal love is like an ''assassin'', both exalting and abasing the ...
'Can a duck swim?'' is evidently a polite version of what bears do in the woods.
Jodi Picoult's latest book deals with Auschwitz's chilling past, Arifa Akbar writes
Author Vaddey Ratner survived the Khmer Rouge, and her first novel is based on what happened to her ...
Amanda Knox's Waiting to be Heard makes for pretty toe-curling reading.
Menzies: ''I understand the Italians have found them very troublesome.''
Based on the true story of Agnes Magnusdottir, the last woman executed in Iceland in 1829.
The Great Gatsby's potential as movie material was recognised from the start.
Crime writer Annie Hauxwell is a patient St Kilda fan, has a horror of chicken factories and enjoys ...
A poem outsourced and delivered digitally is the lynchpin of Ashley Hay's second novel.
It's not going too far to say poor old literary fiction is a threatened species.
Text's title, again; Ann Patchett appeals to authors; wild about Fiona Wood; Reading Matters ...
William Dalrymple's account of a British invasion gains momentum, writes Matt Wade.
Philippine authorities reacted angrily over Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown's portrayal of Manila as ...
An author who pens stories the length of a sentence won this year's Man Booker International Prize.
Heavy rain through the night might have brought on ''uhtceare'' and powerful urges to ignore the ...
Heavy rain through the night might have brought on "uhtceare" and powerful urges to ignore the ...
An author who pens stories the length of a sentence has scooped this year's Man Booker ...
A first edition copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone fetches $234,815) at auction.
Were the American actor and author Molly Ringwald to play a character in the screenplay adaption of ...
Welshman Daniel Morden is hooked on telling stories, writes Linda Morris.
Ali Cobby Eckermann, a Nunga poet, is the second Aboriginal writer to win the top prize in the NSW ...
Jo Case has come to see her son's diagnosis as a gift.
Emerging Writers' Festival director Sam Twyford-Moore talks about his favourite books.
Anna Goldsworthy's second autobiographical work is an account of the pains and pleasures of ...
This British husband and wife team feels there's a better way to communicate with younger readers.
Edward Rutherfurd's latest epic retraces the vast, chequered history of the French capital.
Anne Summers believes that despite recent milestones, women's voyage of empowerment continues.
The short story has been championed by some of the greatest writers, yet is often viewed as a poor ...
What makes a human life worth living? Now there's a question that would, to quote the short poem ...
A British mother, wife and book editor found the material and momentum for her best-selling fiction ...
The first pages of this novel are disconcerting. It opens with a mystery, and the cruel experiences ...
A creative awakening is brilliantly rendered in this suspenseful tale.
The End: The Human Experience of Death is enlightening, in the best possible way, about something ...
A rape trial opens the exploration of a dark and often under-reported side of professional sport.
Sussex-based author Kate Mosse leads something of a double life in the Pyrenees while penning her ...
Self Portrait demonstrates Sir Roy Strong can still attract an audience.
The late poet's image is undergoing an overhaul led by young women, Liesl Schillinger writes
This is a clever, witty thriller that steadily builds suspense.
This is very much a book of interiors, both literal and metaphoric.
Persson's novels are complex and unusual, sardonic and satirical.
Much of the book involves debunking myths that cling to popular ideas about death.