Taste of the fantasy fiction topping book sales
Fantasy is now the best-selling fiction genre in Australia, says book reviewer COLIN STEELE, who illustrates why in his latest column.
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An emerging local author, Andra Putnis, has been appointed as the new artistic director of the Canberra Writers Festival for 2025, after the surprise departure of Beejay Silcox from the role.
ANNA CREER reviews two new Nordic Noir thrillers.
The artistic director of Canberra Writers Festival, Beejay Silcox, is stepping down after two years at the helm.
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Juno’s book puts decades of faces to indigenous activism
One of Australia's most articulate photographers has just released a 348-page book that traces the progress of Aboriginal activism in Australia mostly through photographs, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
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Blasko reflects on goodbyes, grief and new beginnings
Arts editor HELEN MUSA starts her new arts year with news of singers Sarah Blasko and Amy Shark.
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Reading rates in Australia are falling, but why?
Recent international research shows Australians are buying and reading fewer books than people in many other countries. But why?
Libraries ACT's most borrowed book of 2024 is Lola in the Mirror, by Australian author Trent Dalton.
Book reviewer ANNA CREER shares her novel of the year plus four others that stand out from the pack.
Book reviewer COLIN STEELE wraps up a year of wide reading to settle on five of his favourites.
COLIN STEELE reviews a couple of books with lots of spooky Christmas twists.
Legal columnist HUGH SELBY offers a learned review of a new book likely to ruffle feathers as it pokes fun at the Australian legal profession.
Two of Australia's leading fantasy writers, Isobelle Carmody and Garth Nix have made Canberra the location in their latest books, writes reviewer COLIN STEELE.
COLIN STEELE reviews a couple of biographies from British comedians Michael Palin and Bill Bailey.
Evie Hudson has amnesia. She forgets the last 13 years. Piecing her life back together, she navigates the harsh realities of coercive control. Evie is the leading character in local author Emma Grey's second fictional novel Pictures of You.
Australian writer Richard Flanagan has won Britain's leading nonfiction book prize, for his genre-bending memoir Question 7.
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.
