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The Australian author is ‘incredibly influential’, but has had to survive decades of ‘cultural cringe’ and genre snobbery to make finally ‘a decent sort of living’

From Mick Herron’s Slow Horses and Ian Rankin’s Rebus to new books from Bret Easton Ellis and Emma Cline, your beach reads are sorted courtesy of Guardian Australia’s staff and critics

Every highbrow hack, as Evelyn Waugh described Cyril Connolly, is apt to experience an embarrassment of riches when it comes to recommending books for the beach and other seasonal retreats from workaday life. Surveying the bookcase and its shelf of recent titles, this year is very much of a kind

Colin From Account producers Ian Collie and Rob Gibson on season 2 of the sitcom, signing with CAA and streaming in Australia.

Author Nicholas Jose says the Great Australian Novel 'isn't doing too badly, thanks'.

“How is The Great Australian Novel going?” asks a character in Thea Astley’s The Well Dressed Explorer, a Miles Franklin Literary Award w

A major new history of the Australian novel is shaped by the recent renaissance in Indigenous writing, but there are some notable omissions.

Crime writers have been out and about discussing the challenges of AI and the things they will and won’t do in their fiction

Canberra author Chris Hammer's book 'Scrublands' has been produced as a new TV series. STEPHEN GAUNSON says it's not a whodunit but a ‘howcatchem’, a new suspenseful Aussie inversion of the genre.

The new series on Stan is most successful through its links to rural crime noir, pulling apart the vulnerability and deception of this small town.