Books

After bagging the first room reveal, Dan and Dani are out to win The Block. Over the years we’ve seen our fair share of super-competitive contestants on The Block – Josh and Jenna, Gav and Waz, and Erin and Jake, to name a few. But could this year’s Dan and Dani be the most take-no-prisoners […]

Author Helen Brown recalls the day her doctor told her she would need a mastectomy in this extract from her new book.

The Honourable Phryne Fisher is a glamorous, gutsy, and gloriously wealthy detective in 1920s Australia.

Aaron Woolcott works in the family's small publishing business writing beginner's guides to just about everything, but when his wife Dorothy is killed, he doesn't have a clue where to start.

There's much more to the particularly disturbing murder of prostitute Bernice Hogan than police are letting on and journalist Jack Gannon is determined to discover the truth.

It's a thought-provoking look at crime and rehabilitation wrapped up in a thriller that will have you compulsively flipping pages well into the small hours.

It's a rare writer who can link the deep-science world of particle physics with the incomprehensible business of hedge-fund management - and make you want to read on.

It's a wildly entertaining journey of pride and fall, laced with the sort of surprises and cliff-hangers that kept Dickens' readers glued for the next weekly instalment.

Who are these people with the unprounceable names? They are the pioneers of the Scandinavian crime wave.

An unpublished manuscript by Australia's only Nobel Prize-winning author was always going to be big news, and here it is.