La Plante novel lifted Holocaust story
Lynda La Plante has committed literature's capital offence -
plagiarism.
Publishing giant Robert Giroux dies
Robert Giroux, a distinguished giant of 20th century publishing who guided and supported dozens of great writers from TS Eliot and Jack Kerouac to Bernard Malamud and Susan Sontag, died in his sleep early this morning.
Laughter and loathing
Reality TV is nothing of the sort in this teenager's debut novel.
Poet palely loitering
A family memoir paints a vivid picture of landscape and troubled
home life.
Sir Cliff tells of life with ex-priest
Sir Cliff Richard talks of his "companion", ex-priest John McElynn
in a new book.
Leak nightmare follows Twilight hit for Meyer
Stephenie Meyer shelves plans for upcoming novel after unfinished
draft is leaked on the internet.
At the heart of the revolution
Chinese writer, Lijia Zhang, fears rampant materialism has taken
over from spirituality and culture in her homeland.
A versatile performer
This former actress and children's author has a new role as an
acclaimed novelist.
The rules of engagement
The uproar over his first book left him hurt. Now Phillip Gwynne is
back and ready to face his critics.
I live for those who cannot
It may seem impossible but you can rise after tragedy, writes Tim
Elliott.
On a secret mission
The son of John le Carre delivers an apocalyptic debut novel.
Rich pickings in PM's prize
Some of Australia's most celebrated writers dominate the shortlists
of the Prime Minister's Literary Awards for Fiction and
Non-fiction.
Prophet dared to be truthful
The great writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn believed it was his moral
duty to record Russia's 20th-century experience for posterity.
Nobel Prize winner Solzhenitsyn dies
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel Prize-winning author whose books
chronicled the horrors of the Soviet gulag system, has died at age
89.
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The Land I Came Through Last
Stanzas missing in a moving portrait of a fine poet.
Hamlet: A Novel
To be real or not to be real?
The Unlikely Voyage Of Jack De Crow
Across Europe in a yellow dinghy with life-saving cream.
Fine Just the Way It Is
Characters moulded by a mystical relationship with their
environment.
Socialism Is Great! A Worker's Memoir Of The New China
A window into the good humour, insecurities and perseverance that
drive many Chinese.
