Despite some unfortunate political rows, the generous spirit of the man and his poems shone through his life and work

Nicola Redhouse’s memoir traverses neuroscience and psychoanalysis in a quest to understand her own mind

As society shifts towards talking more openly about mental illness, readers are hungry for answers and authenticity

There are plenty of reasons not to get hitched – but for Bridie Jabour’s generation, the institution still holds sway. Even if they can’t articulate why

Eileen Ormsby was threatened with violence when she reported a hitmen-for-hire scam. Now the Australian writer goes even deeper into the dark web

Lale was a tattooist at Auschwitz in 1942 when he fell in love with another Jewish prisoner, Gita. After she died in 2003 he decided to tell their story

On the release of her new picture book, the acclaimed New Zealand writer and illustrator talks animal antics and her favourite children’s books

‘Perhaps what I was doing was morally indefensible’: Australian writer Campbell McConachie was plagued by serious doubts over his profile of bloke-down-the-pub Lindsey Rose, who killed five people

When Claire G Coleman decided to write a story dystopian Australia, she realised that the most unsettling narratives came straight out of the past

Winning the prize will mean more than $60,000 for the five first-time nominees. It will mean tranformative sales and recognition

In a new book the Pakistan-born comedian who grew up as a Muslim and became an atheist takes on the ‘atrocious’ debate about Islam in Australia, complaining that critics and supporters are ‘shouting the same one-liners at each other’

When the Chinese-Australian dancer moved to Shanghai to rediscover her roots, she instead found a city desperate to shed its past and embrace anything foreign