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Jane Harper is known for writing gripping crime novels in which information is drip-fed to the reader. Her novels portray different aspects ...

Quarterly Essay,  the Australian journal about politics and culture, has just hit a major milestone with the publication of QE100 - its 100t...

 Last week I attended a Sydney Writers' Festival event at Sydney Town Hall called 'The Mushroom Tapes' - authors Helen Garner, C...

I recently watched season five of Slow Horses , the brilliant British spy thriller series based on Mick Herron's novels starring Gary Ol...

The  nominees the 2026 Dublin Literary Award  have just been announced. Sixty-nine books have been nominated by 80 libraries from 36 countri...

The 2025 National Book Awards has been announced. These annual American literary awards have been presented since 1936. The  Longlist  of te...

The Paying Guests (2014) by Sarah Waters is set in South London in 1922. Frances Wray lives in a large, crumbling house with her mother. He...

The winner of the 2025 Booker Prize for fiction was announced today, with Hungarian British author David Szalay receiving the £50,000 prize ...

In the 1990s a series of murders took place along a stretch of highway. The bodies of hitchhikers and backpackers were found in the Barrow S...

I am beyond thrilled that Helen Garner has won the 2025 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction for her collected diaries How to End a Story ...

Journalist Martin Scarsden is back as the protagonist in Chris Hammer's latest Aussie-noir crime novel, Legacy (2025). Scarsden is on t...

 I know I am late to the Wolf Hall party, but I am working hard to catch up. Last month I read Wolf Hall (2009) , the first book in Hilary M...

Last month I wrote about how the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Radio National Program is naming Australia's Top 100 Books of...

In 2023 Australians had the opportunity to vote in a referendum which would 'alter the Constitution to recognise the First Peoples of A...

The Nobel Prize for Literature was announced this week, recognising Hungarian author Laszlo Krasznahorkai. The novelist is best known for wr...