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The bookshop crawl isn’t a shopping trip, but is instead about experiencing the bookshops themselves.

Australians can ‘get lit’ in the true sense in this book lovers’ crawl

Book crawls – visiting multiple bookshops in one day – have been growing in popularity and now Australia has joined The Global Book Crawl.

  • Jane Sullivan

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The new Harry Potter TV series cast.

First cast members for Harry Potter TV series finally announced

The much-anticipated HBO series will dedicate a season to each of J.K. Rowling’s books.

  • Kerrie O'Brien
Author Kerry Greenwood, photographed at home in 2016.

Kerry Greenwood had two burning ambitions in life. She achieved them both

The sharp mind and kind heart behind the long-running Miss Fisher series died late last month. Here, Kerry Greenwood’s partner of 40 years pays tribute to the famous author.

  • David Greagg
“If you need cancer to tell you how to live, there’s something wrong with you. Something worse than cancer.”

‘If you need cancer to tell you how to live, there’s something wrong with you’

Irish writer Colm Tóibín on surviving cancer and US politics, overcoming a childhood stammer – and the indecency of looking too much in the mirror.

  • Benjamin Law
Meet Rum’un, the Tasmania Devils’ new club mascot.

What’s a Rum’un? How this new AFL mascot got its name

Meet a monster with meaning in every snarl.

  • David Astle
Kaliane Bradley’s time-travel novel, The Ministry of Time, brings Graham Gore, who was on Sir John Franklin’s doomed Arctic expedition, back to life.

‘I went slightly nuts’: How a TV horror binge inspired this bestselling time-travel novel

A lockdown TV binge prompted author Kaliane Bradley to dig into polar exploration. Now the novel that came of it is being turned into its own series.

  • Jason Steger
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Kerry Greenwood photographed at home in 2016.

Kerry Greenwood, author behind Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, dies at 70

The beloved novelist and lawyer was best known for her Phryne Fisher novels, a historical crime series set in Melbourne.

  • Elizabeth Flux
Joanna Horton at the Smug Fig in Stones Corner, Brisbane. Horton is the author of novels Catching the Light and Between You and Me (Ultimo Press).

Brisbane author Joanna Horton on friendship, desire and the Greens

Joanna Horton, partner of Greens MP Max Chandler-Mather, balances activism and motherhood with writing powerful novels about human connection.

  • Nick Dent
Li’l Petey and Dog Man in the new film of Dav Pilkey’s book, Dog Man.

A tail as old as time: Which are better, dogs or cats?

You might think you know what Dog Man creator Dav Pilkey will say in response. Think again.

  • Michael Idato

You don’t want to think of your doctor as human: Adam Kay

The former doctor turned author (turned humorist) says he “probably” has PTSD after the traumatic event at work that caused him to change professions.

  • John Bailey

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