American author Ann Patchett believes contentment is a radical idea in today's busy world and in her latest novel Tom Lake reflects... more

Stories of redemption and healing: Canadian author Patrick deWitt's latest novel The Librarianist is about a lonely, former librarian. Claire takes... more

Shankari Chandran has won this year's Miles Franklin Literary Award for her third novel Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens, a Trojan... more

Anna Funder's fourth book Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life interrogates why George Orwell's wife, Eileen Blair has been written out of... more

American author Richard Ford says, "I write for the audience today" and not for immortality. Now 79, and with Be... more

Tracey Lien watched Judge Judy as a child and Nina Wan learnt English at 10 when she migrated from China... more

Indigenous writer, lawyer and filmmaker Larissa Behrendt speaks to writers Anita Heiss and Ellen van Neerven about the past and... more

Interviews with all six shortlisted authors for the 2023 Miles Franklin Literary Award from RN's The Bookshelf and Book Show... more

A double bill of Booker Prize winners with reigning champion Shehan Karunatilaka and previous winner Damon Galgut.

American author Lisa See's Lady Tan's Circle of Women set during the Chinese Ming dynasty, Robert Gott's comedy of manners, Saman... more

Bestselling Australian author Kate Morton's personal story of home and her latest novel Homecoming, Stephanie Bishop's psycho thriller The Anniversary... more

Pulitzer Prize winner Barbara Kingsolver and British author Max Porter turn their attention to lost boys failed by society.

My Own Sweet Time was a memoir said to be written by Wanda Koolmatrie, a member of the Aboriginal stolen... more

Richard Powers, Hannah Kent, Elif Shafak and Michael Christie all use trees in their fiction to touch on themes of... more

The latest episode in our Fakes and Frauds series is about the biggest recent book scandal of all, the Helen... more

Cannibalism, telepathy and celibacy are just some of the false claims Marlo Morgan made in her 1990s new age hit,... more

Find out how to catch a con-artist in this episode of Fakes and Frauds that delves into the fake memoir... more

Find out how to catch a plagiarist in the first of our series Fakes and Frauds - the book scandals... more

Australian authors Chloe Hooper, Alice Pung and Larissa Behrendt reveal the complex and complicated mums in their lives and on the... more

British Booker winner Julian Barnes's latest novel, Elizabeth Finch, is about a life-changing teacher and he tells the audience at... more

The smell of books and Italian cooking are celebrated in the latest novels by bestselling Australian authors Pip Williams and... more

Indian author Anindita Ghose on life after Vogue, her friendship with Jonathan Franzen, and the joy of killing the patriarch... more

Irish writers John Boyne, Esther Freud and Louise Kennedy share stories of the pub, the role of the church and... more

Literary titan, Margaret Atwood on the death of her beloved husband, the influence of George Orwell and the pleasures of ageing.... more

American writer Sequoia Nagamatsu shares stories from his childhood growing up in Hawaii, his love of Star Trek, how environmentalism... more

Bestselling British author Samantha Shannon celebrates women, love and desire in her latest fantasy novel, A Day of Fallen Night,... more

For Sydney WorldPride, we celebrate queer writers telling queer stories – the funny, the heartbreaking and the spooky. We’ve searched... more

A trio of books by women about bodies, ballet, grief and working mothers. Meg Howrey on They're Going to Love... more

Indian writer Deepti Kapoor takes on corruption, wealth and poverty in India in her novel The Age of Vice, Michelle... more

Two very different crime fiction writers, Australian Indigenous author Julie Janson and Scottish writer Stuart MacBride imagine grisly scenarios in... more

Bret Easton Ellis and Paul Jennings have been very successful writers for 40 years and although they're very different writers... more

It's been 40 years since Tim Winton published his first novel, An Open Swimmer. Today he is the beloved writer... more

Marlon James' African Game of Thrones, Markus Zusak gets your fanmail and Meg Mason's surprise success with Sorrow and Bliss.

Booker winner Douglas Stuart, Indyana Schneider and Omar Sakr explore queer love and identity in their fiction.

Writers (and bookworms) Craig Silvey, Tony Birch, and Dervla McTiernan talk about their reading lives, in this special episode recorded... more

Ruth Ozeki, Shehan Karunatilaka and Jennifer Down share the backstory to their award winning books.

Australian novelist Heather Rose lost her brother in a tragic accident when she was just 12 years old. In her... more

City-saving superheroes, cheese-bingeing record store employees and a chemist turned TV chef with NK Jemisin, Katharine Pollock and Bonnie Garmus.

Booker winner George Saunders on his short story addiction, Inga Simpson on the great Australian cricket novel and pandemic fiction... more

Alex Miller and Patricia Cornwell talk about ageing and fiction and their novels A Brief Affair and Livid, and we... more

Actor Joseph Paterson shines a spotlight on Black British history, Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk's Ottoman Empire saga and Australian Fiona... more

Graham Norton, Diana Reid and Holly Throsby discuss why they enjoy writing about women in fiction. Graham Norton's fourth novel... more

Ian Rankin's detective John Rebus has been part of the literary world for 35 years and now his 24th Rebus... more

Barbara Kingsolver explains her connection to Charles Dickens and why her latest Demon Copperhead is set in Appalachia, USA. Sophie... more

Shehan Karunatilaka is the winner of the 2022 Booker Prize for his book The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida. He... more

Three literary superstars share the inspiration for their books and how to give a character a good ending: Holly Ringland,... more

Former winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction Kamila Shamsie and Booker Prize-shortlisted author NoViolet Bulawayo reflect on the demise... more

Finding joy in fiction with Pulitzer winner Andrew Sean Greer whose lovable character Arthur Less returns in Less is Lost... more

Can a book predict the future? AM Homes' latest novel The Unfolding follows a group of Republicans who plot to... more

Shortlisted Booker author Percival Everett kicks off our Booker Prize coverage with a discussion of The Trees and former Booker... more

Maggie O'Farrell says her latest novel The Marriage Portrait came to her in "a lightning bolt moment". The book honours... more

American humourist Sloane Crosley explores the dating scene in New York City, but with a twist, in her novel Cult... more

From growing up surrounded by homophobia in a small Tasmanian town to getting married in 2021, award winning comedian and... more

Author of Room, Emma Donoghue questions the zealotry of monks in her latest novel, Haven, set on an inhospitable island in 7th... more

It's been 40 years since Tim Winton published his first novel, An Open Swimmer. Today he is the beloved writer... more

Women's Prize for Fiction winner, Ruth Ozeki, is also a Zen Buddhist priest and explains how this practice shapes her... more

Richard Powers, Hannah Kent, Elif Shafak and Michael Christie all use trees in their fiction to touch on themes of... more

For ABC Arts Week, we celebrate literary events at your local bookstore with a couple of conversations with Irish Australian... more

Bestselling author of Big Little Lies and Nine Perfect Strangers, Liane Moriarty, shares stories from her childhood and how growing... more

Jessie Burton wasn't finished with the main characters in her bestselling debut novel The Miniaturist and returns to the 17th... more

Ahead of the announcement of the winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award, Australia's most prestigious book prize, join the... more

British author Benjamin Myers says he likes to be on the margins as a writer and his latest novel, The... more

For NAIDOC Week, three Aboriginal writers who are grappling with the past: Anita Heiss takes the 1852 Gundagai flood as... more

American author Madeline Miller has found a new audience for her prize winning novel Circe on #BookTok and now she... more

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Geraldine Brookes says she "didn't grow up as a horse obsessed girl" but rather her interest in... more

Meg Mason thought her second novel, Sorrow and Bliss wouldn't be published, it was and is now shortlisted for this... more

Booker-winning writer Damon Galgut wasn’t always aware of his privilege, growing up as a white man in South Africa. Instead,... more

British Booker winner Julian Barnes's latest novel, Elizabeth Finch, is about a life-changing teacher and he tells the audience at... more

Canadian author, Emily St John Mandel, says the pandemic changed her as a writer. Her latest, Sea of Tranquility, was... more

Here Goes Nothing is the last in what Steve Toltz calls his trilogy of fear which began with A Fraction... more

Booker winner Douglas Stuart's second novel, Young Mungo, is again set in gritty working class Glasgow, but also explores blossoming... more

We meet some of the most remarkable mothers in recent fiction, with authors including Dawn French, Douglas Stuart, Anne Enright,... more

Jennifer Down doesn't turn away from uncomfortable truths in her Stella Prize shortlisted novel, Bodies of Light, about the systemic... more

Hannah Kent reflects on her time as an exchange student in Iceland and how it allowed her to pursue writing,... more

Pulitzer-prize winner, Jennifer Egan, is "interested in the ways technology interacts with our psychologies". Her new novel, The Candy House,... more

The Icelandic sagas have long been a source of fascination for Kári Gíslason and his latest novel, The Sorrow Stone,... more

For his latest novel, Moon Witch, Spider King, Marlon James says "I was trying to connect with my own mythological... more

'I have a full and beautiful life', says Irish writer Marian Keyes, 'The only thing I can't do is drink'.... more

Karen Joy Fowler wades into American Civil War history and the story of John Wilkes Booth, the first presidential assassin,... more

Craig Silvey, Tony Birch and Dervla McTiernan share their love of reading from the Perth Festival Writers Weekend. They share... more

Isabel Allende says her latest novel, Violeta, was inspired by her mother but also by Allende's own life. Also, readers... more

Our Country Friends is a funny book set in upstate New York during the pandemic by US writer Gary Shteyngart... more

From young love and forbidden romance to break-ups and long-term relationships: hear authors wax lyrical about love. Writers include David... more

Jason Mott's Hell of a Book lives up to its name: it has a snappy title, an eccentric narrator and... more

Almost 20 years after Brick Lane, Monica Ali is still unpicking the ins and outs of relationships in her novel,... more

In her new book To Paradise, Hanya Yanagihara asks what would America be if its foundations were different. Also Katherine... more

Two masters of the form, George Saunders and Tsisti Dangarembga, share lessons from their extensive writing careers.

The Booker-winning author Pat Barker's preoccupation with who's allowed to speak and who isn't continues in The Women of Troy, a sequel to... more

Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro introduces us to his latest creation in Klara and the Sun, and we also take a... more

"It's such a contradiction in life how much we learn from suffering," says actor and writer Ethan Hawke who tells... more

International travel has been off the cards for many in the last two years, this literary world tour might be... more

Kate Grenville, Craig Silvey, Susanna Clarke, Nardi Simpson, Damon Galgut, Christos Tsiolkas and more on their prize-winning books. Plus, former... more

Unlike many authors, Jodi Picoult decided to take on COVID-19 in Wish You Were Here, because Picoult says, "we need... more

Scottish crime writer Val McDermid's new book, 1979, is the beginning of a new series inspired by her own experience... more

"I never sunk into complacency in any aspect of my life." Booker Prize winner Bernardine Evaristo on her latest book,... more

"I can't separate the erotic and the sensual from the beautiful." Melbourne Prize for Literature winner, Christos Tsiolkas on his... more

Author of Burial Rites and The Good People, Hannah Kent says she wanted to look at human connection in her... more

Booker Prize winner Damon Galgut on his award winning novel The Promise.

"Everyday could be a day of unthinkable richness if we just keep still, attend and be present to what the... more

"The journey is the oldest story known to humanity", says bestselling American author Amor Towles, whose third book is based... more