Raven Leilani’s best-selling debut novel, Luster, is set for an HBO series adaptation.

The Historical Novel Society Australasia (HNSA) and the ARA Group have announced the 2021 winners of the ARA Historical Novel Prize.

Northern Irish writer Lucy Caldwell has won the 16th BBC National Short Story Award for her story All the People Were Mean and Bad.

Dave Blumenthal has released a new book, The Cartoon Chronicles of Sandwich Bag Dad, which is a collection of his most popular cartoon drawings.

Gary Paulsen, author of the young adult wilderness novel, Hatchet, died on October 13 in New Mexico at the age of 82.

Irish author Sally Rooney has declined an offer to publish her new novel, Beautiful World, Where Are You in Israel due to her political views on the... View More»

The 2021 T S Eliot Prize for poetry has announced the ten shortlisted poets and celebrates ‘Ten books that sound clear and compelling voices of the moment’.

Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah has been awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Author Laura Jean McKay has been awarded the UK’s Arthur C Clarke Award for science fiction for her book The Animals In That Country, published by Scribe Publications.

Waverly Council have announced the 2021 shortlist for the Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award.

Love Your Book Shop Day celebrates Australia’s unique community of bookshops and readers and brings together people of all ages and places.

The Historical Novel Society Australasia (HNSA) and the ARA Group have announced the 2021 shortlists for the ARA Historical Novel Prize.

OzAsia Festival has announced a new writing and ideas program called In Other Words, a forum to showcase the best Asian and Asian Australian writers and thinkers.

Not-for-profit charity WestWords is partnering with Booktopia to hold the annual charity event Booktober from October 1 – 31.

The finalists of the 2021 Ngaio Marsh Awards have been announced today. The awards celebrate the best mystery, thriller, crime and suspense writing in New Zealand across four categories.

The Cat Protection Society of Victoria has launched a new writing competition to raise awareness about the caring and rehoming of cats.

The six authors shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize for Fiction are Anuk Arudpragasam, Damon Galgut, Patricia Lockwood, Nadifa Mohamed, Richard Powers and Maggie Shipstead.

British author Susanna Clarke has won the 2021 Women’s Prize for Fiction with her second novel Piranesi.

The Historical Novel Society Australasia (HNSA) and the ARA Group have announced the 2021 longlists for the ARA Historical Novel Prize.

The festival will hold four online events from 8 - 29 September and will feature the following best-selling authors: Paula Hawkins, Val McDermid, Karin Slaughter and Ann Cleeves.

According to Publishers Weekly, acclaimed author Salman Rushdie is set to serialise his next book The Seventh Wave on a newsletter platform called Substack.

The Showtime original series American Rust will be premiering in the US on 12 September. The television adaptation is based on the popular debut novel of the same name by Philipp Meyer.

Indigenous Literacy Day is held annually and celebrates the diversity and vibrancy of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture.

Early bird registration is open for the 2021 Historical Novel Society Australasia (HNSA) Virtual Conference.

Acclaimed author Cassandra Pybus has been awarded the 2021 National Biography Award for her book Truganini.

The Australian Crime Writers Association (ACWA) have announced the 2021 winners of the Ned Kelly Awards. 

The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) have announced the 2021 winners of the Book of the Year Awards. The Awards were first established in 1946 and seek to promote children’s literacy and artistry.

Big Sky Publishing have announced that their award-winning children’s series Ginnie & Pinney Learn and Grow is set to become a television series.

The Foundation for Australian Literary Studies have announced the shortlist for the Colin Roderick Literary Award. 

Great Circle by award winning author Maggie Shipstead is being adapted for a new television series. 

The State Library of NSW have announced the 2021 National Biography Award shortlist. The Award recognises the best biography and life stories across Australia and is the richest awarded biography prize.

The finalists of the 2021 Queensland Literary Awards have been announced, recognising both renowned and emerging literary talents across Australia.

gr's resident book and film buff reviews The Exception, based on the book of the same name by Christian Jungersen.

Returning to Mparntwe/Alice Springs this August, enkoy four days of books, words, performance and more!

Penguin Random House has announced they will be publihsing The Duke of Sussex's memoir in late 2022, with the proceeds going to charity.

The Tasmanian author won the $60 000 prize for her novel The Labyrinth.

The winners of the 2020 Aurealis Awards have been announced, recognising the best science ficiton, fantasy and horror writing by Australian writers.

Co-authored with journalist Ellie Laing, the book will be releasing via Allen & Unwin in November.

Enjoy a winter weekend in sunny Kiama for a great line-up of author talks, masterclasses and workshops.

The film offers our first glimpse at writer-director Leah Purcell in the starring role as Molly Johnson.

It's the prestigious author's latest book since The Dickens Boy.

The book will detail the internationally recognised campaign that produced law reforms across Australia.

The win makes Diop the first french writer to win the International Booker for translated fiction.

Readings have announced their 2021 Young Adult Book Prize shortlist, recognising the best Australian YA novels published in the past year.

Craving a cracking read? These May books come highly recommended from our trusty team of independent reviewers!

The novel was finished prior to le Carré's death last December.

The Civica Libraries Index studied loans across Australian and New Zealand libraries to find out what we were reading over quarantine.

The longlist for one of Australia's most prestigious literary prizes has been announced.

Two years after his retirement from comic writing, Moore has signed with Bloomsbury for two new properties.

The actor's first published book is inspired by his relationship with his daughter.