Our fiction buyer recommends some great novels for Christmas gifts. Read more

It's time to announce the Top 10 Australian Authors of 2019, including our record breaking winner! Read more

Here it is! The Top 10 Favourite Australian Authors for 2018 as voted by you. Read more

The winners from Heat 4 of our #AusFaveAuthor Poll! Read more

Browse our shortlist and winner for the best popular fiction of 2017! Read more

The day has arrived. Today we announce Australia’s Top 10 Favourite Authors, as voted by you. Before anything, we want to extend a HUGE thanks to everyone involved with this poll. To all authors, we owe you thanks on so many levels, but on this occasion thank you for rallying your fans and supporting other authors with such vigour. Oh, and for writing the books that we adore. We love you ... Read more

Warm, witty, fun and clever, author Monica McInerney would be a great best friend to have. How nice to be able to turn to Monica for advice about family, love, life and friendship whenever we needed it! She is so heart smart! Alas, we can’t all have Monica in our life. Thank goodness we have her novels. They are the next best thing to having a 24hr on call Monica… and they have sold... Read more

A one size fits all definition for Australian fiction? Nup. Australian imaginations cross borders and time as easily as those from elsewhere. There is no rule that all Australian fiction must deal with the bush, or the surf or gritty inner city crime. Within the short selection below you’ll find Medieval Europe, Chinese dragons, Antarctica, Texas, CIA conspiracies and, from Christos Tsiol... Read more

This was the year of John Green. I mean we’ve had Harry Potter, Hunger Games and that moment when the whole world went mad, Fifty Shades of Grey, but this year was the year for ‘feels’. So, so many ‘feels’. And if your daughter (or son) lost their minds over The Fault in Our Stars, then you’ll want them to have what few in Australia have and that is a signed ... Read more

Looking back, I’ve had a pretty busy fourteen years. As a writer, here are just some of the things I’ve got up to: – I spent ten months running a winery-restaurant in the Clare Valley. – My two sisters and I had a big falling out and didn’t speak to each other for three years. – I moved to New York, where I not only found a job with a cantankerous old woman, but also met the l... Read more