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.
Books
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.
Books
The Queen, a Fairfax, music and Richie Benaud
Book reviewer COLIN STEELE wraps up a year of wide reading to settle on five of his favourites.
Books
Nothing says Christmas like murder and mystery
COLIN STEELE reviews a couple of books with lots of spooky Christmas twists.
Books
Field guide to ruffle feathers of the birds of Australian law
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.
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.
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...
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.
