The Marion Halligan Award, which recognises a work demonstrating uniqueness and literary excellence that transcends genre, has been awarded to The Dingo's Noctuary, an illustrated verse novel by Judith Nangala Crispin.
"NZ crime fiction is characterised by its distinctive rural and urban settings as well as its often gritty realism," says book reviewer ANNA CREER.
"The Vape Lord of Queanbeyan, reads like the rantings of a lunatic, like prophecy, like poetry, like messages passed between the cells of some imaginary jail. There really isn't another book like it," writes JUDITH NANGALA CRISPIN.
COLIN STEELE reviews two books that cover the lives and work of two global bestselling authors, who are coincidentally both Cornwells.
The ACT writers’ group, MARION, on Thursday released the shortlist for the 2026 ACT Literary Awards, to be announced on July 2.
ANNA CREER reviews new, gripping novels by two Melbourne-based, female crime writers.
Book reviewer COLIN STEELE looks at the autobiographical accounts of the disparate lives of two British celebrities.
The National Library is seeking public donations to support a major digitisation project that will bring the manuscript collections of twenty Australian women writers online for the first time through Trove.
The extraordinary fascination with all things Jane Austen continues unabated, writes book reviewer ANNA CREER.
"Raef does not make his own bed but he does lie in it, a lot." CHARLES WATERSTREET reviews Ross Fitzgerald's latest riotous novel, Rogue: A fictitious memoir.
Canberra theatre figure Marya Glyn-Daniel, a multi-talented author, costume designer, playwright and producer has died. She was 85.
To read books or not to read? That is the question, says book reviewer COLIN STEELE who is reviewing three books about, well, books! Looking after them, looking out for them and loving them in libraries.
The question of whether audiobooks count as reading is about to get more complicated thanks to a feature from a major tech firm.
HELEN MUSA reports on a National Library exhibition that showcases the remarkable, decades-long efforts of the NT's Papunya community to record, preserve and sustain its language and culture.
Female writers are currently dominating the Australian crime fiction scene, with more women writing crime, psychological thrillers, and domestic noir than men, writes reviewer ANNA CREER.
COLIN STEELE reviews two new books by Australian authors that take their inspiration from dark themes.
Reviewer ANNA CREER takes a look at a couple of new crime books – one "cosy", the other not so much.
Queanbeyan author Omar Musa has won the 2026 Victorian Premier’s Award for Fiction for his novel Fierceland.
“Being published is amazing, but I treated it as a bonus – all I wanted was to write something that I could look at and go: 'I’m really proud of what I’ve created'." TIA PRIEST-WILLIMOTT meets excited debut author Scott Woodard.
