Looking back over the past twelve months since last Australia Day, it has been another good year for crime fiction set in Australia. Once again the overall quality of the books greatly impressed, e…

Three very different crime novels for your late October reading: a good cold case mystery, an interesting James Bond spin-off and a tough, gritty noir thriller by one of Australia’s best crim…

Part 2: An ancient fish meets modern politics. Story by Jock Serong. Photographs by Nick Green

OpenAI is begging Parliament to allow it to use copyrighted works because it's "impossible" for the company to make money without them.

David Whish-Wilson talks to Cheryl about his unconventional path to writing, his motivations for writing crime fiction and the significant themes he explores in his work. His latest novel Culter is ou...

Paul Cutler is a former undercover operative, now working off the books for his handler, Malik Khalil. When Cutler is tasked with investigating the disappearance of an Australian marine scientist on a...

The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest (The Mikey) is now an annual competition celebrating and compensating the best micro fiction and nonfiction online. The grand prize winner of The Mikey is automatical...

“I’ve always had a dispute with narration, since it traps the reader in immersion, like a drowning dragonfly. (Are writers part of the entertainment industry? Are books pastimes?)”