To mark the launch of an official new Don Bradman book, cricket legend Richie Benaud writes of his personal encounters with The Don
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 explosion of blogging has given many writers a much-needed voice and many readers a revealing insight into the real world.
I first crossed swords with the author of Trainspotting in 1998, in the afterglow of a morning reading at The Wharf
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Despite not winning the Booker Prize, nominee Steve Toltz is sitting pretty on the success of his debut novel
Clive James holds forth on the art of crime fiction.
Murderers, adulterers, drug addicts... the secret lives of great authors laid bare in a salacious new book!
Chuck Palahniuk tells Adam Lee Davies why we love the idea of apocalypse.
According to the Guinness Book of Records, the most dangerous non-combat zone on earth is 45 kilometres from Townsville.
Winning isn't everything but it's the only thing this Canberra author writes of...
The author of 'Bird' tells us which book changed her view on relationships.
THe Puliter Prize winner tells us which book changed his life.
Just as 007 has been played by different actors over the years, so his stories have been written by different authors.
Want to find a 70s fondue cookbook? Crave the latest Footrot Flats potboiler? Need hardback Hemingways, paperback Proust, dusty Dostoyevsky?
The library that has it all, literally
The transition from short stories to his first novel was a long one, Peter Ho Davies tells Time Out's Richard Cooke
I still write very instinctively, as I did as a child
It's tough. It's like pulling teeth. It's like juggling hand grenades.
Luke Davies didn't merely write an epic novel about mad, playboy billionaire Howard Hughes - he almost became him
It might sound eccentric, but the best way to get a book published is not to send it to a publisher.
The legacy of Russian nuclear contamination abetted by government is the subject of the heart-rending book Certificate no.000358/.
The last thing I want is the spectre of a deadline turning writing into a chore.
Award-winning WA author Joan London returns with a fairytale-inspired novel about a runaway
The Pulitzer Prize and O. Henry Award winner takes a bath
The feisty feline behind the Aussie thriller Fortress takes Time Out inside her blistering work ethic
His barbed, satirical crime novels take a few stressed penguins
Martin Amis's maligned collection of essays and shorts, The Second Plane, explores the fraught legacy of September 11.
Reviews
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.
Former Sydney journalist journeys to the dark heart of Latin America for a death-defying rite of passage
Bright Shiny Morning is a screamingly ambitious portrait of modern Los Angeles featuring a cast of thousands.
When Toni and Jacob de Jong arrive to visit their 18-year-olddaughter, Maya, in Melbourne, they find she has simply disappeared.
As the siege of Leningrad grinds on the frostbitten city faces starvation.
A young Vancouver couple attempts to only eat food grown within 100 miles of their home.
Sedaris and his partner move to Tokyo for three months to enforce the complete change of routine the how-to-quit books recommend.
Daddy is a sinister alcoholic with psoriatic arthritis and rotting teeth who starves Augusten of attention and the child's pet hamster to death.
Porn queen, Cassie Wright, wants to crown her illustrious career by smashing the world record for serial fornication.
Finally: a book unafraid to tell all about... er, rat sex