The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) have announced this year’s Book of the Year Awards Shortlist and that this year’s final prize pool will exceed $100 000 for the first time. 

Later this year, many highly anticipated books will be released. 

Reese Witherspoon is partnering with Dolly Parton and James Patterson to adapt their novel, Run, Rose, Run into a feature film, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Australian independent booksellers have announced the winners of the 2022 Indie Book Awards.

An auction of signed and dedicated copies of books, submission package critiques and mentoring sessions from writers and editors are raising money for Ukraine.

Jon Krakauer’s book Under the Banner of Heaven is set for a limited series adaptation on Hulu and will feature Andrew Garfield and Daisy Edgar-Jones,... View More»

Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the The Road, Cormac McCarthy, has two novels coming out this fall in the US.

The Australian Children’s Laureate Foundation have appointed Gabrielle Wang as the new Australian Children’s Laureate for 2022-23.

William Jackson Harper will be staring in the film adaptation of M T Anderson’s science fiction novel Landscape with Invisible Hand.

Children’s author and illustrator, Shirley Hughes, who was best known for creating the Alfie book series and the picture book, Dogger, has died age 94.

Pan Macmillan Australia have announced Australian and international bestselling author Jane Harper's next novel, Exiles, which will be released on 20 September.

Conservative commentator and satirist, PJ O’Rourke has died at age 74 of complications from lung cancer.

Lianne Moriarty's novel, The Husband's Secret is set for a film adaptation, according to deadline.

The new TV series ‘Reacher’ which is based on Lee’s Childs mystery series has been renewed for a second season just days after premiering on February 4.

Author R A Spratt has revealed the process behind the cover of her latest book in the popular Friday Barnes series, Friday Barnes 10: Undercover, which follows young detective Friday as she solves a mystery in Norway.

Adelaide Writers’ Week (AWW) has announced its full program for the 2022 festival which will be held across six days from March 5 – March 10 and will include a total of 165 guests.

The Arts Council have named award winning writer Colm Tóibin as the new Laureate for Irish Fiction from 2022 – 2024.

Australian independent booksellers have announced the shortlist for the 2022 Indie Book Awards.

Love Nature and the ABC have commissioned author and conservationist Tim Winton to write and narrate a three-part docuseries on the Ningaloo Coast in Western Australia.

Joelle Taylor has won the 2021 TS Eliot poetry prize for her collection C+nto & Othered Poems which looks at butch lesbian counterculture in the 1990s.

One of the smallest books in the world sold at an auction in Brussels for approximately AU $6 500 (£3500).

The winners of the 2021 Hugo Awards have been announced with Martha Wells taking the top science fiction award for her novel Network Effect.

gr's resident book and film buff reviews The Power of the Dog, based on the book of the same name by Thomas Savage.

Acclaimed author and activist Gloria Jean Watkins or more widely known by her pen name, bell hooks, has died at the age of 69 at her home in Kentucky.

Author Chris Hammer has topped the 2021 list for eBook loans from Australian public libraries on the Libby App.

The winners of the 2021 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards have been announced.

Actor and comedian Celeste Barber is set to executive produce and star in the eight-episode series ‘Wellmania’, which is inspired by the book Wellmania: Misadventures in the Search for Wellness by author Brigid Delaney.

American author Anne Rice, who wrote the bestselling 1976 novel Interview with the Vampire has died at the age of 80.

Australian independent booksellers have announced the longlist for the Indie Book Awards 2022.

The Guardian reported that American writer Sandra Newman is writing a feminist retelling of Nineteen Eighty-Four called Julia which has been approved by... View More»

Serena Williams, the 23-time Grand Slam champion and 4-time Olympic medallist, is set to release a children’s book titled, The Adventures of Qai Qai.

James Goodhand’s novel Last Lesson is set for a tv adaptation and will be produced by Red Planet Pictures.

Acclaimed novelist Bernardine Evaristo will become the next president of the Royal Society of Literature, becoming the first writer of colour in the position.

The Walkley Foundation announced the 2021 longlist for the Walkley Book Award, part of the Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism.

Black Inc. and the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) are partnering to publish Seeking Asylum: Our Stories.