Books

Lauren Sams always dreamt of being an author and has just published her second book, Crazy, Busy, Guilty.

Former Westpac CEO Gail Kelly has penned a book about leadership, with publisher Penguin Random House revealing we can expect to see it in bookstores by August.

When you’re exhausted from working with the toxic combination of small children and deadlines, and wondering if you’ll ever get a proper night’s sleep again, it helps to laugh.

Random House Australia   A 34-year-old British-born writer has won Australia’s most prestigious literary prize.

The first female prime minister of Australia, a reformed shoplifter now at the helm of a multi-million-dollar fashion empire, a comedian and former SNL writer, and the youngest woman to create and direct a hit television show.

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that when one part of your life starts going okay, another falls spectacularly to pieces.

The night before social media in Melbourne lit up with the name TAVI – after the young blogger was announced as an official Festival guest – director Lisa Dempster wrote on facebook: “When I was interviewed for my current role I was asked who my dream festival guests would be.

Feeling stuck for great ideas? A little short of that inspiration you need to get down and serious about your career? It may be time to get off the internet (but come back Monday!) and get reading a good old fashioned book.

It was on a long bus ride toward Sarajevo, past shells of houses full of grass and dirt, that I first became aware of the idea of atrocity tourism.

Melbourne-based critic and journalist Mel Campbell is the author of Out of Shape, her first book, which was released at the start of June.

Anita Desai may be one of India’s best-known living writers, but she appears uncomfortable with the title.

Minutes after finishing High Sobriety – Jill Stark’s memoir about her year without alcohol – I attended a birthday party…for a bar.