'Playwright David Williamson has spent more than 50 years satirising the lives of the white middle-class.'
'Scott Westerfeld's dystopian sci-fi novel Uglies is a rare sort of book.'
'On a rainy day on his family's outback sheep station, Tom Henderson went rummaging through the VCR collection and found a film that would change his life.'
'In the late 60s through to the 70s in Melbourne, a movement was brewing that would change Australian theatre forever.'
'In 1836, a two-volume novel was published in London which may have a momentous place in Australian history.'
'In the first act of the new Australian black comedy film Audrey, the titular teenage character falls into a coma — and her family couldn't be happier about it.'
'"Sitting in that garage … for the first time in my career, I got to sing and be me in the way I wanted to sing and be me," John Farnham writes in his newly released memoir, The Voice Inside.'
'As a primary school teacher for the past 25 years, Angie Casanova has seen first hand the impact the evolution of modern technology is having on children's development.'
'Liquidators for embattled Victorian publisher Shawline have confirmed hundreds of authors and the tax office are owed more than $800,000.' (Publication summary)
'The withdrawal of Jamie Oliver's children's book from stores across Australia and the UK for perpetuating harmful stereotypes has cast a light on the publishing industry's reliance on "sensitivity readers".' (Introduction)
'Waanyi author Alexis Wright has won the $60,000 Melbourne Prize for Literature, awarded to a Victorian writer who has made an "outstanding contribution to Australian literature and to cultural and intellectual life".' (Introduction)
'Mem Fox was culling her book collection — "trying to be ruthless" — when she came across an old book of short stories for children.'
'Australian author Richard Flanagan has won the prestigious Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, worth 50,000 British pounds ($97,000), for his latest book, Question 7.'
