The Man Booker Prize has today announced that Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi has won the 2019 international prize.

Netflix is planning a live-action TV series based on the classic series The Babysitters Club

Read our reviews of the ten books in the running for the $60 000 prize. 

First Nations & People of Colour Writers Count have launched a crowdfunding campaign for research into the lack of diversity in Australian publishing. 

2019 Civica Libraries Index has revealed Australia and New Zealand’s most borrowed library books this year.

Watch the second official trailer for the film adaption of Maria Semple's best-selling novel Where'd You Go Bernadette.

Trent Dalton has won a record four ABIAs on the book industry's night of nights.

29 April, 2019 marks the day the world lost one of its greatest poets. Les Murray died peacefully at age 80.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame has catapulted to Amazon’s best-seller list in France.

The Overstory by American novelist Richard Powers has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Read our review.

With Easter banquets around the corner and Mothers' Day following close behind, we have compiled our five top recommendations for the best new cookbooks. 

The shortlist for the 2019 Australia Book Industry Awards has been announced! The nominees are voted for by the ABIA Voting Academy,... View More»

The $50,000 Stella prize has been awarded to Vicki Laveau-Harvie for her memoir The Erratics.

Before chocolate came to be solidified and sold in blocks, it was served as a drink to the well-to-do of 17th-century London, who congregated in coffee and chocolate houses to sample the heady elixir.

Beloved young adult and children’s author Jaclyn Moriarty is back with her first novel for adults since 2004, Gravity is the Thing.

A fabulous list of Australian authors have been shortlisted for this year’s Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Awards.

For the first time in 40 years, NSW public library funding is being increased. 

When Jack Heath began shopping around the manuscript for his first adult book, publishers ‘hated’ it, says the Canberra author.

The Indies are considered the forerunners of all major Australian book awards. Past Book of the Year winners have gone on to  win other major literary awards. So who has won this year's award?

Fans can now finally watch the six-part fantasy drama’s first official trailer. 

The explosive book was pulled off shelves in 2017 as Pell's trial began. 

A new book by Jeremy N Smith charts the fascinating career of a hacker called Alien - and it might leave you wanting to throw your smartphone into the toilet. 

A collective called the STFU Reading Society has started hosting ‘silent reading parties’ in Melbourne.

Jacqueline’s new memoir, Beyond Words: A year with Kenneth Cook, charts her relationship and brief marriage to the author of Wake in Fright.

Havenfall is scheduled for publication in 2020.

The author of Hover Car Racer and The Three Secret Cities is the only author to have taken the top spot more than once in Booktopia's annual Australia's Favourite Author... View More»

Ten years on from Australia's deadliest blaze, Chloe Hooper retells the story of Black Saturday from all angles and investigates the trial of firebug Brendan Sokaluk.

Hulu has released a teaser trailer for the forthcoming season of The Handmaid’s Tale.

The Salinger family announced that the Catcher in the Rye author's previously unseen work is being prepared for publication.

The Anna K books will be set between Manhattan and Greenwich, featuring a Korean-American ‘it girl’

'A Cinderella story for the 21st century.’

Rowe was ‘moved to tears’ and ‘amazed and honoured’ to receive the award.

Twenty years after publishing his 1995 debut crime novel, City of Light, rock musician and writer Dave Warner answered the door of his Sydney home to find two suited men standing outside.

The etymology boffins at the Macquarie Dictionary have, once again, trawled through the list of new words added to the dictionary in 2018 and selected the term or phrase that most accurately ‘represents the year gone... View More»

Reading is Australia’s favourite leisure activity. We spend more time with books in our hands... View More»

We know that you don’t judge a book by its cover. You pick it up, flip it over, and judge it by the blurb instead. But where did this now-ubiquitous practice originate?

A number of popular movies and TV shows based on books have inspired authors to write sequels to their books that may never have existed.

The book is being revived as a 6-episode TV miniseries on Hulu, directed by George Clooney.  

Have you set your resolutions for 2019? Maybe you’ve already broken a few! Fear not – there’s still hope for your reading goals. Here are our five best tips for keeping your reading on track in the New Year.

And it's not a musical.

The Prime Minister’s Literary Awards are in their 11^th year, and this year have distributed $600,000 worth of prize money to Australian authors across six categories.

Australian author Jock Serong’s On The Java Ridge has taken out first place in The Staunch Book Prize, a new award that is protesting the overload of violence towards women in fiction. 

The sequel to Margaret Atwood's dystopian classic The Handmaid’s Tale is due for publication in September 2019. 

Helen Lewis has won the Nib Literary Award for her book The Dead Still Cry Out, an investigation into her father’s life through the photographs he took during World War II as a combat cameraman.

Jack Reacher, who is described by his creator Lee Child as ‘a huge, intimidating bruiser ... a big, probably a bit ugly sorta guy’ was played by Tom Cruise – a 5’7, handsome Hollywood mainstay.

Perth writer Holden Sheppard won the $12,000 prize for his YA manuscript, Invisible Boys, which follows three 16-year-old boys coming to terms with being gay in their regional Western Australian... View More»

The casual theatregoer may think that these musicals were straight-to-stage sensations, but they actually began as books.

An membership fee of $75 gives people access to power tools, camping gear, kitchen appliances, party needs and other household items.

Garrard Conley was 19 when he was outed as gay and forced by his parents to either leave their care or undergo conversion therapy.

Former First Lady Michelle Obama’s memoir is hitting shelves in two days time