FROM the moment he emerged as a 6.3kg bouncing boy to his generous charity work, life has been eventful for rocker Jimmy Barnes, as a new biography reveals.
THERE is the traveller's moment, seated by the oblong aircraft window, when a town or city below comes into focus before landing.
WALTZING Matilda was not a political allegory relating to the events of the 1894 shearers strike but a simple song Banjo Paterson wrote to impress a young woman.
PICO Iyer was barely two when his father travelled to Dharamsala in 1959 to welcome the 14th Dalai Lama into exile in India - now he has written about that moment in his latest book.
This Melba biography paints her less prima donna than tough businesswoman.
TEN writers are $6000 richer after winning a place in the latest One Book, Many Brisbanes short-story collection organised by the city council.
MATT Condon has been shortlisted for the Christina Stead Prize for fiction in the NSW Premier's Literary Awards for his novel The Trout Opera.
AUTHOR JK Rowling says a bid by a fan to print an unofficial lexicon to the Harry Potter series has left her without the heart to publish her own version.
DEBUT author Toni Jordan reflects on the process of writing Addition and reveals that it takes years of hard work to become an overnight success.
BRISBANE writer Kate Morton has been hobnobbing with some of the big names in literature at the British Book Awards, where her novel was a finalist.
COLIN Cotterill likes to tell people there are three Colin Cotterills, not that Cotterill isn't serious about his writing.
HOT ON the heels of last year's acclaimed Typewriter Music, University of Queensland Press has released David Malouf's Revolving Days.
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RIVALRY ... Nuri Vittachi, one of three judges for the $110,000 WA Premier's Literary Award, says the award will one day rival the status of the Man Booker and Pulitzer prizes.
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AUSTRALIA'S richest literary prize has been launched in Perth, with a prediction it will eventually rival the Man Booker and Pulitzer prizes.
THE Lonely Planet guidebook empire is reeling from claims by one of its authors that he plagiarised and made up large sections of his books.
FROM avid reader to prolific writer, Pamela Freeman's latest literary foray takes her into a fantasy world for adults inspired by a desire to see the future.
SINGER, actor and TV presenter Natalie Bassingthwaighte has added author to her growing list of accomplishments, penning a book with her sister.
IT SEEMED apt that I would meet Helen Garner in Melbourne's inner city Carlton. Thirty-one years before, Garner published Monkey Grip.
SCHOOLKIDS have been encouraged to vote after the shortlist for the Children's Book Council of Australia's Book of the Year was released yesterday.
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