Richie Benaud on Don Bradman

Richie Benaud on Don Bradman

To mark the launch of an official new Don Bradman book, cricket legend Richie Benaud writes of his personal encounters with The Don

Peter Costello on the Costello Memoirs

Peter Costello on the Costello Memoirs

Treasurer, statesman, author... sausage maker? The Liberals' last, lost hope expounds to Angus Fontaine about his love of snags, Meatloaf, and his old FJ Holden.

The Blogging Revolution - Antony Loewenstein

The Blogging Revolution - Antony Loewenstein

The explosion of blogging has given many writers a much-needed voice and many readers a revealing insight into the real world.

Irvine Welsh - The real deal

Irvine Welsh - The real deal

I first crossed swords with the author of Trainspotting in 1998, in the afterglow of a morning reading at The Wharf

Steve Toltz

Steve Toltz

Sydney News

Despite not winning the Booker Prize, nominee Steve Toltz is sitting pretty on the success of his debut novel

Clive James on Crime Fiction

Clive James on Crime Fiction

Clive James holds forth on the art of crime fiction.

The Secret Lives of Great Authors

The Secret Lives of Great Authors

Murderers, adulterers, drug addicts... the secret lives of great authors laid bare in a salacious new book!

Chuck Palahnuik talks about Snuff

Chuck Palahnuik talks about Snuff

Chuck Palahniuk tells Adam Lee Davies why we love the idea of apocalypse.

The Tall Man - Chloe Hooper

The Tall Man - Chloe Hooper

According to the Guinness Book of Records, the most dangerous non-combat zone on earth is 45 kilometres from Townsville.

Strike it lucky

Strike it lucky

Winning isn't everything but it's the only thing this Canberra author writes of...

Sophie Cunningham

Sophie Cunningham

The author of 'Bird' tells us which book changed her view on relationships.

Tony Horwitz Pulitzer

Tony Horwitz Pulitzer

THe Puliter Prize winner tells us which book changed his life.

Devil May Care

Devil May Care

Just as 007 has been played by different actors over the years, so his stories have been written by different authors.

Recycled paperbacks

Recycled paperbacks

Want to find a 70s fondue cookbook? Crave the latest Footrot Flats potboiler? Need hardback Hemingways, paperback Proust, dusty Dostoyevsky?

State Library of NSW

State Library of NSW

The library that has it all, literally

Peter Ho Davies

Peter Ho Davies

The transition from short stories to his first novel was a long one, Peter Ho Davies tells Time Out's Richard Cooke

Sophie Masson

Sophie Masson

I still write very instinctively, as I did as a child

Michael Robotham

Michael Robotham

It's tough. It's like pulling teeth. It's like juggling hand grenades.

Gods and monsters

Gods and monsters

Luke Davies didn't merely write an epic novel about mad, playboy billionaire Howard Hughes - he almost became him

Get your novel noticed

Get your novel noticed

It might sound eccentric, but the best way to get a book published is not to send it to a publisher.

Black harvest

Black harvest

The legacy of Russian nuclear contamination abetted by government is the subject of the heart-rending book Certificate no.000358/.

Amanda Hampson

Amanda Hampson

The last thing I want is the spectre of a deadline turning writing into a chore.

Into the commune

Into the commune

Award-winning WA author Joan London returns with a fairytale-inspired novel about a runaway

How I write: Jane Smiley

How I write: Jane Smiley

The Pulitzer Prize and O. Henry Award winner takes a bath

How I write... Gabrielle Lord

How I write... Gabrielle Lord

The feisty feline behind the Aussie thriller Fortress takes Time Out inside her blistering work ethic

How I write: Shane Maloney

How I write: Shane Maloney

His barbed, satirical crime novels take a few stressed penguins

Something Amis

Something Amis

Martin Amis's maligned collection of essays and shorts, The Second Plane, explores the fraught legacy of September 11.

Reviews

A Fraction of the Whole: Steve Totlz

A Fraction of the Whole: Steve Totlz

Time Out thinks Steven Totlz's first novel seems to be worth every red cent of of his much publicised $100,000 advance. The Booker Prize judging panel agrees.

My Columbian Death - Matthew Thompson

My Columbian Death - Matthew Thompson

Former Sydney journalist journeys to the dark heart of Latin America for a death-defying rite of passage

Bright Shiny Morning - James Frey

Bright Shiny Morning - James Frey

Bright Shiny Morning is a screamingly ambitious portrait of modern Los Angeles featuring a cast of thousands.

The Good Parents - Joan London

The Good Parents - Joan London

When Toni and Jacob de Jong arrive to visit their 18-year-olddaughter, Maya, in Melbourne, they find she has simply disappeared.

City of Thieves - David Benioff

City of Thieves - David Benioff

As the siege of Leningrad grinds on the frostbitten city faces starvation.

The 100 Mile Diet: Alisa Smith & JB MacKinnon

The 100 Mile Diet: Alisa Smith & JB MacKinnon

A young Vancouver couple attempts to only eat food grown within 100 miles of their home.

When You Are Engulfed In Flames: David Sedaris

When You Are Engulfed In Flames: David Sedaris

Sedaris and his partner move to Tokyo for three months to enforce the complete change of routine the how-to-quit books recommend.

A Wolf At The Table: Augusten Burroughs

A Wolf At The Table: Augusten Burroughs

Daddy is a sinister alcoholic with psoriatic arthritis and rotting teeth who starves Augusten of attention and the child's pet hamster to death.

Snuff: Chuck Palahniuk

Snuff: Chuck Palahniuk

Porn queen, Cassie Wright, wants to crown her illustrious career by smashing the world record for serial fornication.

The Science of Sex: Mary Roach

The Science of Sex: Mary Roach

Finally: a book unafraid to tell all about... er, rat sex

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Deaf Sentence: David Lodge

Deaf Sentence: David Lodge

Retired linguistics professor Desmond Bates is slowly going deaf.

Toyboy: Holly Hill

Toyboy: Holly Hill

Holly Hill embarks on another sexual odyssey to generate controversial copy.

Bowie in Berlin: Thomas Jerome Seabrook

Bowie in Berlin: Thomas Jerome Seabrook

Desperate to escape, Bowie headed to West Germany in 1976 with his old buddy Iggy Pop.

The Lost Boys: Sam De Brito

The Lost Boys: Sam De Brito

Getting inside the mind of a man in his late 30s is not always the favoured task of many novelists.

Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures: Vincent Lam

Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures: Vincent Lam

Vincent Lam can now join the ranks of Chekhov, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Peter Goldsworthy, all doctors with a penchant for writing good fiction.

The Behaviour of Moths: Poppy Adams

The Behaviour of Moths: Poppy Adams

It's not surprising that Adams' debut novel revolves around characters with a nose for biology.

The Spare Room: Helen Garner

The Spare Room: Helen Garner

Helen Garner returns to fiction to write a story that could have easily found itself on the non-fiction shelf.

Breath: Tim Winton

Breath: Tim Winton

Tim Winton's maturity and mastery of craft enable him to choose the most basic material for every element of his art, thus producing a masterpiece.

My Reading Life: Bob Carr

My Reading Life: Bob Carr

A more accurate title might be Uncle Bob's Best Bits for Boys and Girls of All Ages, or Carr's Bumper Book of Blurbs.

The Welsh Girl: Peter Ho Davies

The Welsh Girl: Peter Ho Davies

Davies has been lauded as an accomplished short story writer and, now, a successful novelist.

Births Deaths and Marriages Georgia Blain

Births Deaths and Marriages Georgia Blain

Georgia Blain trades the fictional narrative of her earlier work for an honest memoir, set against the backdrop of Australian suburbia

A Madman Dreas of Turing Machines Janna Levin

A Madman Dreas of Turing Machines Janna Levin

In this wartime tale of tortured genius, human frailty and death, Janna Lavin weaves together a story of two of the twentieth century's finest minds.

Cleopatra Last Queen of Egypt Joyce Tyldesley

Cleopatra Last Queen of Egypt Joyce Tyldesley

As America ponders on whether the White House is any place for a woman, it's a timely moment to rewind 2,050 years.

Do Travel Writers Go to Hell?: Thomas Kohnstamm

Do Travel Writers Go to Hell?: Thomas Kohnstamm

This former Lonely Planet author has written a behind-the-scenes memoir which purports to expose the reality of life as a guidebook writer

Clean An unsanitised history of washing

Clean An unsanitised history of washing

Throughout history, society has wrestled with the question of cleanliness, with different ages and cultures arriving at vastly different conclusions.

Counting the Stars: Helen Dunmore

Counting the Stars: Helen Dunmore

A fictionalised account of the Roman poet Catullus's most noted love affair

A Short Gentleman: John Canter

A Short Gentleman: John Canter

He's one of England's finest legal minds, but Robert Purcell is a pompous weasel in need of a come-uppance.

The Journal of Dora Damage: Belinda Starling

The Journal of Dora Damage: Belinda Starling

Set in south London in 1859, this purports to be the posthumously published diary of a bookbinder's wife, Dora.

Serious Things: Gregory Norminton

Serious Things: Gregory Norminton

Serious Things leaps back and forth in the life of Bruno Jackson

Human Smoke: Nicholson Baker

Human Smoke: Nicholson Baker

Even with his historian's hat on, Baker writes like a novelist, rejecting straightforwardness for a pastiche

The Outcast: Sadie Jones

The Outcast: Sadie Jones

Sadie Jones has written a very assured debut and created an impressively sympathetic portrait of a troubled teenager.

Unforgiving Years: Victor Serge translated by Richard Greeman

Unforgiving Years: Victor Serge translated by Richard Greeman

Victor Serge's final novel, Unforgiving Years, is one of the more harrowing stories to come out of the Second World War

Foreskin's Lament: Shalom Auslander

Foreskin's Lament: Shalom Auslander

Though Foreskin's Lament is sometimes depressing, it's mostly just very, very funny

American Journeys: Don Watson

American Journeys: Don Watson

Against the tide of well-structured guidebooks to packaged luxury, Don Watson's strangely wonderful American Journeys reflects on his haphazard experiences across less travelled roads in the land of the freeway

Out of Breath: Julie Myerson

Out of Breath: Julie Myerson

Julie Myerson's seventh novel resembles a childhood romp

The girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Stieg Larsson

The girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Stieg Larsson

Scandinavians love their crime writing, and it seems the Europeans love Scandinavian crime writers

Cleaver: Tim Parks

Cleaver: Tim Parks

Harold Cleaver just wants to try to shut his big mouth

Duma Key: Stephen King

Duma Key: Stephen King

Edgar Freemantle moves to the Florida outpost of the title to convalesce after a horrific accident which has left him with one arm.

Born Standing Up: Steve Martin

Born Standing Up: Steve Martin

Steve Martin's memoir about his rise from obscurity to platinum-record fame

My Revolutions: Hari Hunzru

My Revolutions: Hari Hunzru

Kunzru's book, which shifts between a man's staid suburban present and his radical London past, resists labels.

In Defense of Food: Michael Pollan

In Defense of Food: Michael Pollan

Michael Pollan raised some thorny questions about what to eat in The Omnivore's Dilemma. He answers them all on the first page of his new book, In Defense of Food.

The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates: Edited by Greg Johnson

The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates: Edited by Greg Johnson

Between 1973 and 1982, the time frame for these journals, Joyce Carol Oates published 28 books.

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