Adrian d'Hage is an ex military man turned author, researching the ancient Mayan and Inca cultures for his latest books....

A Tiwi Islander is showing promise as a playwright combining a traditional Aboriginal story with a well known fairytale....

In a patch of bushland in Darwin, there's a special place where the local wildlife is inspiring creativity among people with disabilities. ...

Part-time opera singer Kang Wang will compete for his chance to train internationally when he takes part in the Australian Singing Competition in Sydney....

DBC Pierre is an award winning novelist who has a host of wacky stories from his own life....

This selection of essays, written over a twenty year period, provide an insight into the unique imagination of author Gerald Murnane, and the obsessions that lay at the heart of both the man and his writing. These include horseracing, grasslands, Jack Kerouac, and the country Hungary: a country ...

Nobel laureate for literature 2009, Herta M ller, who lives in Berlin, takes her themes from life under the black shadow of Ceau escu's Romanian dictatorship. Born in 1953 into a German speaking minority in Romania, she did not escape the Securitate's grasp until 1987. Though mostly known as a ...

The Catcher in the Rye is a novel set in the early 1950s and narrated by a young man named Holden Caulfield. Holden is not specific about his location while he's telling the story, but he makes it clear that he is undergoing treatment in a mental hospital or sanatorium. The events he narrates take place ...

59 year old Marie King has grown accustomed to life on Sydney's affluent North Shore. But now she's divorced from her husband and her kids have moved out. Her separation from her husband leaves her directionless and financially stretched, and the family house needs to be sold. Marie ends up in a bar ...

The highly acclaimed work of Palestinian poet and short story writer Taha Muhammed Ali is driven by a storyteller's vivid imagination, disarming humour and unflinching honesty. Born in 1931 in rural Galilee, Taha Muhammed Ali was forced to flee to Lebanon along with his family when their village ...