What would you expect from an author who earned a PhD focusing on the existential roots of noir? A treatise of dry and dusty death? Forget it.
Thesis done and dusted, what you get from Michael Caleb Tasker’s debut novel, …
“I hate critics,” Baille is pronouncing. “I loathe the way they sit there in the previews writing by the light of their little torches… write about it afterwards, I say. Let the films come at you. Why sit there …
English podcasters Holland and Sandbrook have taken a most entertaining approach to some of history’s most famous heroes and evil villains ... although it should be said at the outset, that the word ‘history’ has been taken in …
Alliteration and illustration pair magnificently in Graeme Base’s ANIMALIA, the classic book now celebrating 40 years of publication.
From armoured armadillos and angry alligators to zany zebras zigzagging in zinc zeppelins, the alphabetised menagerie is a detailed delight offering first …
This is the new novel by the author of The Dictionary Of Lost Words and The Bookbinder of Jericho. Set in France in 1915, it is a story about love between enemies behind the lines of WWI and an Australian …
Above : Bruna Papandrea and Liane Moriarty in conversation
On the Opera House Concert Hall stage were two chairs and two genuine Australian women: one an Australian writer and the other an Australian Hollywood producer. They were Liane Moriarty and …
“…….the eulogy is a speech given by one of the departed’s loved one to honour the end of their life……
If we were all tasked with writing our own eulogy, I pondered, right now – no matter …
Writing Australia recently revealed the shortlist for the 2026 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, the richest literary prize in the nation. The awards celebrate the exceptional talents of emerging and established Australian writers, illustrators, poets, and historians.
The Prime Minister’s Literary …
Good writing is never orthodoxy. It is heresy.
Richard Flanagan’s collection of occasional pieces is aptly named HERESIES and each and every piece is never anything less than good writing.
At its core, the pieces are about free speech, the …
Christopher Andersen’s new biography of Catherine, Princess of Wales, promises to reveal “The Courage, Grace, and Power of the Woman Who Will Be Queen”. This is all familiar territory for Andersen who has written many royal books including three …