‘Hyland has a wonderful way with wry wordplay and pithy imagery’’
Jay Hanna
After stepping away from the microphone last year, Gillian O’Shaughnessy has been busy reading up a storm for her new role.
Pierra Willix
It considers ‘the psychological toll of sharing your life online’
Gemma Nisbet
Former UWA Publishing chief Terri-ann White writes new chapter with Upswell Publishing.
Simon Collins
Ah, holidays. They are the perfect time to rest and relax and reacquaint yourself with the joys of reading.
Alison Wakeham
Book review
Keri Hulme, the New Zealander whose 1984 debut novel The Bone People won the international literary prize, the Man Booker, has died at 74.
AAP
Love Stories is a gentle middle finger to the global pandemic
Jessie Hilton’s vision for Open Book was a whimsical wonderland for kids and big kids to be inspired and the stylish space achieves this — and more.
Jade Jurewicz
Hungerford Award-winning debut novel by WA author Maria Papas, Skimming Stones, is “deeply absorbing”.
Crime writer Garry Disher moves on from his Hal Challis series
Harvey bookworms were taken on a trip through some of historical fiction’s bestselling novels last week during a visit from author Anna Jacobs.
Kasper Johansen
Her musings on being an invisible woman earned Ros Thomas a legion of fans. Now she’s stepping back into the spotlight with a novel about how we judge the past in the present.
The inspirations for Burial Rites author Hannah Kent’s third novel Devotion lie at least partly in the far more recent past.
John Woodhouse’s photography may have developed with the technological advancements of the art form, but what hasn’t changed is his passion for the beauty surrounding him, evident in new book Selected Works.
Tanya MacNaughton
Transgender woman AJ Clementine has captivated millions with her candid online content and quest for LGBTQIA+ visibility
Jessie Stoelwinder
South African author Wilbur Smith, who penned 49 novels over a six-decade career, has passed away "unexpectedly" in Cape Town.
Sara Foster’s seventh novel The Hush’s focus on government control over reproductive rights speaks to times.
Cold Light, a series of nine short stories, culminated over several years from those ideas he has later “jotted down at home”.
Kellie Balaam
Lynne McGranger has a bout of food poisoning to thank for snaring a role on Home and Away.
The haunting and inventive seventh novel by dual Miles Franklin award-winner Michelle de Kretser is a tale in two parts, comprised of a pair of novellas printed back-to-back.
How We Love is deeply personal, traversing the author’s life from childhood, through teenage crushes, losing her beloved mother to cancer and into the relationships that shaped her adult years.
Katherine Fleming
Diana Reid has written what has become one of the buzziest Australian debuts of 2021.
‘Other people’s creative lives have always fascinated me,” writes Sydney author Charlotte Wood in the preface to her latest book.
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