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Earlier this year, Palestinian-Australian author Randa Abdel-Fattah said she had sent two concerns notices to SA Premier Peter Malinauskas over comments made around the time of her controversial removal from the line-up of this year's Adelaide Writers' Week.

People find community with other bookworms as social reading takes off with everything from literature raves to book bedazzling.

The Academy Award-nominated writer dives into Irish history in Land, revealing how the Great Famine changed the country forever.

Ariane Beeston, the author of an acclaimed memoir detailing her experience with postpartum psychosis, has penned her first work of fiction, Don't Forget to Smile. 

June's best books include an Irish saga by Maggie O'Farrell, a gritty memoir by Ralph Jackman and a comic Italian romp by Andrew Sean Greer.

The author of What I Loved has published a moving memoir drawing on letters and journals documenting the last days of Paul Auster, her partner in life and writing.

The bestselling author of books including Bel Canto, Tom Lake and her latest, Whistler, is determined to see the good in everyone.

Described as one of the books of the year, Fruit Fly asks who has the right to tell which stories in an age of cancellation for cultural appropriation.

Jose da Costa's escape from Indonesian-occupied East Timor in 1995 has been detailed in a new book launched at the Northern Territory Writers Festival this weekend.

In a modern-day cost-of-living crisis, the classic 1817 novel's tale of inheritance and wealth still rings true.

The Booker Prize winner sat down at the Sydney Writers' Festival to ponder the threat of AI to fiction, share some recommendations and consider whether his book was really about masculinity.

Sweet teen love, gay football stars, alien abductions and a murderous PhD student bent on revenge — this month's best new releases have it all.

In 2009, Suzie Miller had a choice between becoming a magistrate in Australia or a residency at the National Theatre in London.

The month he turned 30, Mosab Abu Toha was blindfolded, beaten and detained by the Israel Defense Forces. The essay he wrote about it won a Pulitzer Prize.

In May 2025, Helen Garner, Chloe Hooper and Sarah Krasnostein, three literary true-crime writers, headed to Erin Patterson's trial. The resulting book just won an Australian Book Industry Award.

The 1963 Näku Dhäruk or Yirrkala bark petitions led to Australia's first land rights law. A new book about them just won two prizes at the NSW Literary Awards.

Lee Lai's debut graphic novel, Stone Fruit, was longlisted for the Stella Prize in 2022. Four years on, she's won the prestigious award for her latest book, Cannon.

Ellena Savage's debut essay collection, Blueberries, was a surprise hit. In her new novel, The Ruiners, she takes on Charles Dickens and the illegal waste trade.

The Go-Betweens frontman spent years developing the story, which follows a pair of musicians on the run from the law as they try to clear their names.

A memoir by Geraldine Brooks and a historical novel by actor-turned-author Tasma Walton are among the eclectic works up for one of Australia's most prestigious literary awards.