Florence Knapp: The Names
[Content warning: Family violence] Instant bestseller and "best debut novel in years" ( The Sunday Times ) starts in a literal and metaphori...
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David Szalay: Flesh
In a novel, the words on the page are our entrance into another's mind. But sometimes it's the space between the lines that define a charact...
Lyse Doucet: The Finest Hotel in Kabul
The history of the Kabul Inter-Continental Hotel is the history of a nation. Built in 1969, it has stood through Soviet occupation, multiple...
Mick Herron in Conversation
In the latest instalment of Mick Herron's internationally bestselling series, palms are itching among Jackson Lamb's cohort of misfit spies....
2026 Program Announcement: Yumi Stynes and Ann Mossop
Join Yumi Stynes and Artistic Director Ann Mossop as they discuss the 2026 Sydney Writers' Festival program. The pair talk about the 2026 Fe...
A.C. Grayling on Cancel Culture
'Cancel culture' may seem like a 21st century invention sparked by contemporary politics and stoked by social media, sometimes with deadly c...
Ian Rankin: Master of Crime
Detective Inspector John Rebus first hit bookshelves in 1987 as a witty Scottish crime fighter but now the legendary detective is behind bar...
Your Favourites’ Favourites: Michael Robotham and Chris Whitaker
In Your Favourites' Favourites, our most loved writers introduce one of their favourite authors. Bestselling Australian crime writer Michael...
Maggie O’Farrell: Portrait of a Writer
Over a masterful career spanning 10 novels, a memoir and various children's books, Maggie O'Farrell has established herself as a modern lite...
Spies, Lies and Secrets
Undercover agents aren't just the stuff of stories for writers Jack Beaumont and Ben Macintyre. A French intelligence officer turned spy thr...
Robbie Arnott: Dusk
Myths of cryptid big cats stalking the Australian landscape are as old as colonisation. In Dusk , the puma hunting Tasmania's lowlands has l...
Zoë Foster Blake Things: Will Calm Down Soon
Zoë Foster Blake is a multi-talented and ambitious novelist, beauty journalist and skincare entrepreneur whose bio is long enough to le...
Ben Macintyre: The Siege
On 30 April 1980, armed gunmen stormed the Iranian embassy in London and took 26 hostages in what would become a six-day siege. Millions aro...
China Past, Present, Future
As politicians and analysts attempt to manoeuvre with the global superpower, these writers reflect on how the 20th century got the nation wh...
Catherine Chidgey: The Book of Guilt
Commonwealth Writers' Prize winner Catherine Chidgey's 9th novel, The Book of Guilt, sparked an international bidding war. With undertones o...
The Moriarty Sisters
This trio of Australian literary talents make writing a family affair. The Moriarty sisters, Jaclyn (the Kingdom and Empires series), Liane...
Family Secrets
Every family has a secret but not every family has a memoirist to reveal it to the world. Writer and former restaurant reviewer Candice Chun...
Out of This World
Space, in all its awe-inspiring, mind-blowing expanse, is still the final frontier. Its greatness and grandness force us to reflect on our h...
Harriet Walter: What Shakespeare's Women Might Have Said
After a lifetime of bringing Shakespeare's female characters to life on stage, multi-award-winning British actor Harriet Walter lends them h...
The F Word
[Content warning: sexual assault] Feminism has a checkered past, but what can we expect from feminist ideas these days? CEO of independent n...