1+ week, 5+ day ago   (64+ words) Brisbane Times September marks the start of the bumper Christmas season, when publishers release a huge crop of books from big names and small. Here are 18 of the many new titles out this month, with loads more to look forward…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (939+ words) August 25, 2026 — 6:20pm Welcome to CityChats, where Brisbane Times meets our city’s most interesting characters on our most iconic form of transport. This week, children’s book author and illustrator Sophie Beer tells us about her unlikely corporate background, how her real-life experiences…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (783+ words) Updated August 20, 2026 — 3:03pm,first published 2:09pm Isaac Heeney’s children’s books have been dumped by major retailers and bookstores and a third instalment put on hold following an allegation of sexual assault against the Sydney Swans player. The first two books in Heeney’s…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (616+ words) August 20, 2026 — 3:00pm It is 12 years since best-selling novelist Liane Moriarty thrilled readers with Big Little Lies, set in the fictional Sydney location of the seaside “paradise” of Periwee Peninsula. The bestselling novel was adapted with great success into a TV series....

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (1185+ words) August 20, 2026 — 11:40am Writing novels is an antidote to the intense investigative reporting of Louise Milligan’s day job. “It’s such an amazing, electrifying feeling; it’s one of the best things that has ever happened to me, writing fiction. There’s no therapy I…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (529+ words) August 18, 2026 — 3:30pm We all love a juicy literary scandal, and there have been plenty of them recently involving memoirs. But the latest concerns a famous novelist and an even more famous movie star. Rachel Cusk’s new novel, M, is about an…...