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Most young people rarely, if ever, read for fun. By linking art with reading, young people can learn to love both — and develop their knowledge of the world.

I don’t choose books based on the aggregate rating as if they are skincare products, nor do I think any critical verdict is the final one

A cast of old and new faces returns for part two of Neil Gaiman’s acclaimed fantasy series

Set around a culture war in a nursing home, Chandran’s third novel has won Australia’s biggest literary prize – and yet, she says, she was almost too afraid to write it

Patchett’s new novel, in which a mother tells her daughters about her early romance with a famous actor, is a gentle but revealing meditation on lost love and destiny

Author Jess Hill tells inquiry into consent laws almost half of children aged nine to 16 are being regularly exposed to porn, with damaging effect

Group of four travel 500,000 km across India & 10 countries in Asia to research little-known seers. Supported by friends & groups, they journey to find unified whole. Unfettered travel is about discovering every being is part of one. Book to be written in English & translated into multiple languages.

Jill Duggar Dillard seems to have spent a lot of time figuring out what to tell everyone about her family in her new book.

Other lives: Writer and historian whose success as a novelist began when he was 61

Read an excerpt of Sarah Rose Etter's new novel, here, then dive in with us throughout the month.

Six authors are in the running for Australia’s most prestigious book award, which will be announced on Tuesday. Here’s your primer