The Book Show

Ocean Vuong's dazzling follow up to his debut On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Charlotte M... more

Bri Lee, Madeleine Gray and Kate Mildenhall break the mould with their new books about fra... more

Why is Jane Austen endlessly adaptable? After all, her Pride and Prejudice character, Eliz... more

For Jeanette Winterson, reading has been her liberation but she's worried about its future... more

Jane Austen's influence has spread well beyond the Anglosphere 250 years after her birth a... more

Megha Majumdar's A Guardian and a Thief asks what a billionaire, a manager and homeless pe... more

Jane Austen's novel Persuasion was the last she completed before her death and it is consi... more

British comic Ben Elton on the Aussie inspiration for writing fiction, and Miles Franklin ... more

In a Jane Austen novel, what does it mean if a character is in the Navy? What role do aunt... more

The British-Hungarian author [David Szalay] (https://www.penguin.com.au/authors/david-szal... more

Patricia Lockwood's latest book is the third exploring her inner state, just don't call it... more

We're celebrating Jane Austen's 250th birthday with Dear Jane, a brand-new series about he... more

Become a Booker Prize expert and meet the shortlisted authors before the winner is announc... more

The American elegy, Dream State by American author Eric Puchner is one of Claire's favouri... more

The Top 100 Books of the 21st Century countdown is complete and now it's time to find out ... more

[Heather Rose] (https://heatherrose.com.au/) found writing her latest novel challenging be... more

It's 25 years since True History of the Kelly Gang came out and while Peter Carey might no... more

Trent Dalton's new novel Gravity Let Me Go is about a middle aged journalist who can't let... more

Ian McEwan's futuristic novel What We Can Know is about rising sea levels and a lost poem.... more

God of Small Things author Arundhati Roy remembers her difficult mother and how she was sh... more

Australian author of Addition, Toni Jordan, goes gambling with greyhounds in Tenderfoot, R... more

Discover the favourite books from the 21st century of Colum McCann, Kate Grenville and Kal... more

Yellowface author R.F. Kuang returns to speculative fiction with her latest novel Katabasi... more

Russian born US writer Gary Shteyngart imagines a future America with strong parallels to ... more

Florence Knapp's debut novel The Names is a sliding doors story about the naming of a chil... more

Amy Bloom on her latest novel I'll Be Right Here about an unconventional chosen family, Be... more

Booker Prize-winning Nigerian author Ben Okri on his novella Madame Sosostris and the Fest... more