With the help of her alter ego Robert Galbraith, J.K. Rowling has announced details of her third book in her acclaimed Cormoran Strike series! #CareerOfEvil will be published 22nd October-visit the website to find out more! https://t.co/3IIUdvuzoc pic.twitter.com/d8wIrxAVVL — Robert Galbraith (@RGalbraith) June 11, 2015 Career of Evil by J.K. Rowling (writing as Robert Galbraith) When a mysterio... Read more

In 2011, US author Andy Weir self published his first novel – The Martian. Having been rebuffed by literary agents when trying to get prior books published, Weir decided to put the book online in serial format one chapter at a time for free at his website. It steadily became a phenomenon, with Crown Publishing winning an intense bidding war to publish the book in print in 2013. The Martia... Read more

(WARNING: Blog post contains possible GIF spoiler) Reek, fetch my crayons! A Game of Thrones adult colouring book will be here in time for Christmas! News of the book is not all that surprising if you followed the big talking points at the recent BookExpo America. They were: 1) When is the new George R.R. Martin book coming? 2) Colouring books are awesome. Feedback which obviously made its way ... Read more

Ali Smith has won the 2015 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction for her incredible novel How To Be Both. Smith was also one of the favourites to take out the Man Booker Prize, pipped at the post by Australia’s Richard Flanagan. The novel tells the stories of two characters: a contemporary British teen and an Italian Renaissance artist. It was published in two versions, half of the copi... Read more

We know what we’ll be doing this morning, joining in the 2015 National Simultaneous Storytime! National Simultaneous Storytime is held annually by the Australian Library and Information Association. Every year a picture book, written and illustrated by an Australian author and illustrator, is read simultaneously in libraries, schools, pre-schools, childcare centres, family homes, bookshop... Read more

Congratulations to the incredible Australian writers on this year’s Miles Franklin shortlist! It feels distinctly like a changing of the guard in Australian literature. Don’t miss the chance to grab a copy of these fantastic books and judge them for yourself… Golden Boys by Sonya Hartnett Sonya Hartnett’s third novel for adults is perfectly formed and utterly compelling, an un... Read more

The first trailer for one of the most anticipated films of the decade, Danny Boyle’s Steve Jobs, has just been released. Starring Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslet, Jeff Daniels and a dramatic turn from Seth Rogen, the film was adapted by The Social Network‘s Aaron Sorkin from Walter Isaacson’s award-winning biography Steve Jobs. Check the trailer out, and if you want the full ... Read more

One of the highlights of this year’s Sydney Writers’ Festival is Little Fictions, an evening of lively performances of long and short stories from Spineless Wonders authors. Featuring work by Ryan O’Neill, Claire Aman and Julie Koh, Little Fictions is a platform for Australian writers to have their work read by professional actors, and for the public to indulge in the simple pleasur... Read more

Jamie Oliver returns in 2015 with a new book, sure to take the world by storm. And the name? Everyday Super Food Recipes for a Healthier Happier You Jamie’s Everyday Super Food makes eating well exciting, delicious, easy and fun. No matter how busy you are, you’ll find that healthy eating the Jamie way is both straightforward and achievable, making it super easy to choose exactly th... Read more

Huge news for the all-conquering Liane Moriarty as news breaks that the adaptation of her acclaimed novel Big Little Lies is coming to HBO, the home of Game of Thrones, Girls and True Detective. The project landed at HBO after the premium cable channel won a bidding war with Netflix. Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon will star in the mini-series while Emmy winner David E. Kelley, who wrote Th... Read more