Celebrating the winner of 2024’s Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript, Rachel Morton discusses her highly anticipated novel The Sun Was Electric Light. The Sun Was Electric ...

I Made This Just for You is a short story collection that considers the nature of work, intimacy and selfhood as mediated via technology. It is by turns speculative, funny, clever, surreal and deeply ...

Chad Harbach’s highly acclaimed first novel is The Art of Fielding. He is currently the executive editor of n+1 magazine, which he co-founded. Chad Harbach grew up in Wisconsin, and graduated from ...

Dr Gail Dines is professor of sociology and women’s studies at Boston’s Wheelock College. Her work focuses on the hypersexualisation of culture and the way porn filters into pop culture. Her latest ...

Christopher Paolini was educated at home by his parents. His abiding love of fantasy and science fiction inspired him to write his debut novel, Eragon, when he graduated from high school at 15.

Jeffrey Eugenides’ first novel, The Virgin Suicides (1993) was translated into 15 languages and made into a major motion picture. In 2003, Eugenides received the Pulitzer Prize for his novel Middlesex ...

Carlos Ruiz Zafón is the author of six novels, including the international bestsellers The Shadow of the Wind, The Angel’s Game and The Prisoner of Heaven. His work has been published in more than 40 ...

Beverley Wang is the ABC’s national culture correspondent and a host of the pop culture podcast, 'Stop Everything!'. She’s a familiar presence across ABC platforms, appearing as a regular culture ...

Dame Stella Rimington joined the Security Service (MI5) in 1968 and was appointed Director General in 1992, the first woman to hold the post. Her latest novel is Rip Tide. During her career, Stella ...