It might look like child's play, but writing picture books is an exact science. Mem Fox — who has just published her 49th ...

This year’s standout novels offered a mix of brains and fun, with side-helpings of sex, God and rural Australia. Read on for ...

Every year I present a list of books that have been sidelined or maybe underappreciated in the mad scrum of publication; this ...

Writing the history of the novel, even covering a limited period, is a challenge. No one could possibly read every novel that ...

Waanyi author Alexis Wright has won the $60,000 Melbourne Prize ... starting it at the same time as she started Tracker. She ...

Music legend Kamahl this week celebrated his 90th birthday – and he lifts the lid on the highs and lows of his career in his newly-released biography, Kamahl: The Triumph of Hope.

When: Saturday November 23, doors open at 6pm Where: Bird’s Basement, 11 Singers Lane, Melbourne, 3000 A new Greek play in ...

British author Samantha Harvey has won the 2024 Booker Prize for her ambitious and beautiful ‘Orbital’, which becomes the first novel set in space to win the 50,000-pound literary prize selected from ...

What woke impertinence. Victoria’s Yoorrook Justice Commission now wants to drag in celebrity chef Jamie Oliver to tell him how to write about Aborigines.

The book, which follows six people living on the International Space Station, was selected over five other finalists, ...

In Lech Blaine's Australian Gospel: a Family Saga, two Australian families go to war over their biological/foster offspring.

Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver got in front of mounting controversy surrounding the recently released “Billy and the Epic Escape ...