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After Randa Abdel-Fattah was dropped from Adelaide Writers' Week by the Adelaide Festival Board, a slew of authors, including Michelle de Kretser, have withdrawn from the event.

An anthology of love stories written by First Nations people is in the works with stories of blak love, joy, and connection capitalising on the fastest growing literary genre in the world.

Her books like Pride and Prejudice and Emma were written hundreds of years ago, but have themes that still resonate in today's society.

An exciting Australian debut, a bevvy of award-winning literary fiction and more than one heart-wrenching memoir are among our critics' favourite reads of the year. 

Kinsella, who also published under her real name, Madeleine Wickham, announced in April 2024 that she had been diagnosed in late 2022 with glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer.

Wondering what to read next? This month's best books include a novel that brings to life Britain's only named wind and a new book by the author of The Handmaid's Tale.

Helen Garner is the voice of Australian writing. She's become one of our most celebrated authors and has won just the prestigious UK Bailie Gifford Prize for her collected diaries. 

Helen Garner almost never gives TV interviews, but she sat down for 7.30 this week. 

In A Great Act of Love, the award-winning author interweaves a surprising chapter of Tasmanian history with the story of her ancestor who was transported to Van Diemen's Land in the 1800s.

This year, Sukhjit Kaur Khalsa earned an Order of Australia medal and published her first book, Fully Sikh, all while running an indie theatre in Perth.

After being featured in Dua Lipa's book club and the SATC spin-off, Helen Garner has won the Baillie Gifford Prize for non-fiction for her collected diaries, How to End a Story.

'Spiky characters' and 'luminous writing': Here's what we thought of the prestigious literary award's 2025 shortlist, the first with Sarah Jessica Parker as judge.

Wondering what to read? This month's best books include the latest from Jane Harper, Bri Lee and Booker Prize winner Kiran Desai.

There are many factors that can determine the monetary value of a book, so what can make an edition worth tens of thousands of dollars?

A woman who bought a copy of The Hobbit from an op shop in the 1990s says even then she suspected it could be worth a considerable amount — experts now say she could be sitting on a first edition copy, worth tens of thousands.

The results are in — Trent Dalton's Boy Swallows Universe has won Radio National's inaugural Top 100 Books of the 21st Century.

Trent Dalton's debut novel Boy Swallows Universe has won Radio National's Top 100 Books of the 21st Century countdown.

Robbie Arnott's Dusk about twins hunting a puma in Tasmania, and Tasma Walton's I Am Nannertgarrook about an Aboriginal woman kidnapped and sold into slavery, have tied to win the ARA Historical Novel Prize.

The rapid development of AI is testing the effectiveness of the Copyright Act, with creative and media industries calling for better protections.

Randa Abdel-Fattah explores the experience of Palestinian Australians in Discipline, her first book for adults.

László Krasznahorkai has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, one of the world's most prestigious writing awards.