'Audiobooks can sometimes be a little hit or miss and are often a direct reading of the text.'
'A 14-year-old boy dreaming of a distant world that exists within his own country jumps on a train and heads deep into the Australian outback.'
'Karen Comer didn't set out to write a pandemic novel. But, living in Melbourne in 2020 through one of the world's strictest lockdowns, she read over part of her book and found she had accidentally written one.'
'Gunai/Kurnai woman Veronica Gorrie wanted to make a difference and so she became a police officer. She's now the editor of an anthology called When Cops are Criminals.'
'A new coin has been minted as a tribute to one of Australia's most popular children's books, Mem Fox's Where is the Green Sheep?'
'With Book Lovers Day falling on Friday, August 9, ABC News has compiled a list of TV shows and movies you can watch at home that are based on books.'
'Every morning, Jo Canham starts her day by quietly carrying her bookshop's A-frame sign to the middle of Port Fairy, a little seaside town in regional Victoria. '
'Overnight success takes years, but Ydinji comedian-turned-actor Steph Tisdell can almost pinpoint the moment everything changed for her.'
'Some people sail through their appointment as poet laureate with little to write about.'
'Benjamin Law once described himself as an "uncoordinated inner-city Asian homosexual with an arts degree".'
'Waanyi writer Alexis Wright has won the 2024 Miles Franklin Literary Award for her novel Praiseworthy, a 730-page epic about colonisation, Aboriginal sovereignty and climate change.'
