2+ day ago   (241+ words) September 11, 2026 — 11:11am The world chronicled in Max Easton’s Now, Autonomy is both familiar and foreign. Set in Sydney’s inner west, the novel is peppered with local landmarks and place names: Newtown, Homebush, Parramatta Road, Central Station, Hyde Park, the QVB, the…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago   (453+ words) The noir label has been tenuously attached to all manner of crime fiction of late. But rather than being identified by a landscape (think rural or outback noir), or geography (Nordic noir), or even a setting (domestic noir), the real…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago   (28+ words) Seacoastonline.com Water Street Bookstore to give old books a ‘second life’ with new annex...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (57+ words) Artsy Closed doors. The tangible light of a repetitive daily routine. Outside, it’s still dark. Outside, a journey. As the doors open, the journey begins; the darkness will be illuminated step by step. The journey into the unknown begins. There…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (75+ words) SMH.com.au September 10, 2026 — 8:00pm A groundbreaking collaboration drawing on Yolngu oral history has become the first co-authored book to win the $80,000 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for fiction. A Piece of Red Cloth, written by novelist Leonie Norrington and Yolngu cultural…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (88+ words) The Washington Post Long Dark House opened in Old Town Alexandria earlier this month as a haven for genre enthusiasts. Watching the likes of “The Twilight Zone” and “Star Trek” with her father was Chanthal Harris’s initiation into her “comfort…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (35+ words) SMH.com.au National books editor Melanie Kembrey has rounded up the best new books to read this summer. Updated September 10, 2026 — 2:17pm,first published 11:25am...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (362+ words) Bestselling Canadian author Claire Cameron is coming to the Brantford Public Library on September 17 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the main branch. Cameron will discuss her latest book, How to Survive a Bear Attack: A Memoir, which won the Governor General’s Literary…...

3+ day, 45+ min ago   (81+ words) An extract from Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla's book recounts a day aboard the International Space Station, from bodily changes and 16 sunrises to a tightly controlled schedule. The diary of an astronaut An extract from Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla's book recounts…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (1190+ words) September 9, 2026 — 1:58pm She wrote Australia’s best-selling political biography, won glittering prizes, had a novel made into film and was portrayed in a television soap opera, but her most public role was playing the woman who waited for the man she loved....