Aussie author Richard Flanagan wins UK nonfiction prize
Australian writer Richard Flanagan has won Britain's leading nonfiction book prize, for his genre-bending memoir Question 7.
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Book reviewer ANNA CREER looks at some of the latest crime fiction worth a read these summer holidays…
British writer Samantha Harvey has edged out Australian author Charlotte Wood to win the Booker Prize for fiction.
Power, spies and political intrigue are the common factors in Sonia Purnell's biography of Pamela Churchill Harriman and Nick Harkaway's reworking of his father's fictional world of George Smiley, writes book reviewer COLIN STEELE.
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Gutenberg reproduction gifted to the library
A reproduction of the Gutenberg Bible, considered to be the first major work printed in Europe with moveable metal type, has been given to the National Library of Australia.
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Tsiolkas takes his provocation very seriously
As the Canberra Writers Festival opens with its extraordinary line-up of authors, few of them are quite so well known as Christos Tsiolkas, beloved, the festival tells us, "because of his provocations”. HELEN MUSA reports...
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Amazing Jack Iverson, my dad and me
ROSS FITZGERALD reviews a book that reveals the rise of Australia’s great spin bowler, Jack Iverson, the role of his sportsman father, Bill (“Long Tom”) Fitzgerald and their time at the "famous old" Brighton Cricket Club.
Celebrated detective Vera Stanhope has a new case. Book reviewer ANNA CREER says it's "a classic Vera story set against the wild, ancient landscape of Northumbria".
Canberra’s literary community is reflecting on the contributions of publisher Stephen Matthews, founder of Ginninderra Press, who died under the Voluntary Assisted Dying program at his home in Port Adelaide on September 25. He was 78.
In a dramatic leap from winter to spring, Canberra Writers Festival launches into its ninth year with an emphasis on passion, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
COLIN STEELE reviews a new book on the psychological hows and the behavioural whys that go into what it takes to be famous, really famous.
Former UK prime minister Boris Johnson says in his upcoming memoir that Queen Elizabeth died after suffering from bone cancer.
ANNA CREER reviews two new historical fiction books, one about an extraordinary love affair that engrossed a British prime minister at a time of war, the other of what awaits a victorious warrior king returning home from the Trojan War.
Stone Yard Devotional author Charlotte Wood has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the first Australian writer since Richard Flanagan to make the list.
COLIN STEELE reviews a new biography of Anna May Wong… the first Chinese American actress to become a major Hollywood box-office attraction.
Book reviewer ANNA CREER looks at three British crime novels... a university thriller, a policeman with a tragi-comic approach to crime and the mystery of a missing mother.
Reviewer COLIN STEELE looks at three Australian science fiction (or speculative fiction) books that provide future scenarios reflecting fears of the impact of artificial intelligence, climate change and the growing power of China.
Chris Hammer’s sixth book, the crime thriller, The Seven, has won the $10,000 2024 ACT Book of the Year Award.
Author Alexis Wright has become a two-time winner of the prestigious $60,000 Miles Franklin Literary Award, with her epic novel Praiseworthy.
