Books

Kasey Chambers's new book is her most candid work yet, tracing her life and career from a kid in the outback to an Australian music household name. She tells us about the challenges of writing, parenting and self-producing her 13th studio album, Backbone.

Organisers of the Summer Reading for MPs campaign say they're not trying to change minds, but they believe reading can provide a "better understanding of the present through the lens of history".

Welsh American journalist Jon Ronson has interviewed conspiracy theorists, neo-Nazis and soldiers trained as psychics. This week, at his live shows, he'll teach you to spot a psychopath.

Richard Flanagan has won the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, but he's declined to accept the prize money until its sponsors make a plan to divest from fossil fuels.

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

This year, the Waanyi author of Carpentaria, Tracker and Praiseworthy has won the Stella Prize, the Miles Franklin Literary Award, and now the Melbourne Prize for Literature.

Jamie Oliver has become embroiled in controversy after criticism his new book stereotypes Indigenous Australians. Here's where it all went wrong.

Authors who had their books published through a company that has gone into liquidation say they are thousands of dollars out of pocket.

It takes 90 minutes for the International Space Station to orbit the Earth. That journey happens 16 times in Orbital, which just won one of the world's top literary awards.

The winner of the prestigious literary award — to be announced on November 12 — will take home $98,000 and receive a dramatic bump in book sales around the world.

The book, which was so controversial it forced the Indian-born author into hiding for six years, may be legally imported into India after a High Court ruling.

An Australian teacher is the winner of the Orwell Society's Peter Davidson Award in recognition of "outstanding ability and contribution to the study of George Orwell, his life and work".

Eric Idle, one-sixth of legendary comedy group Monty Python, brings his new live show, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life, Live!, to Australia this month.

Teacher's debut picture book based on her daughter's telltale messy hair hopes to inspire children to unplug from screens and make their own adventures outdoors.

From an abusive relationship to the cancer battle that's stopped him from singing, the notoriously private John Farnham doesn't hold back in his first autobiography.

In 2014, Nagi Maehashi quit the corporate world to start food blog RecipeTin Eats. Now, she's Australia's most popular food writer — and she's released her second cookbook in time for Christmas.

The inspiration for the Korean author's book Human Acts stems from a devastating massacre in Gwangju over 40 years ago, but the ripple effects are still being felt today.

October is always a blockbuster month in the publishing industry and this year is no exception, with new offerings from Michelle de Kretser, Robbie Arnott, Melanie Cheng and more.

Tony Armstrong says his new book 'George the Wizard' is about celebrating your own uniqueness and overcoming fear. 

Tim Winton talks about his new book, Juice. He says he used scientific modelling to turn up the heat and create climate chaos.