Australian authors and personalities read some of our favourite picture books.
Halloween’s almost here, and the witching hour is upon us! We’re stacking our TBR pile high with spooky, scary reads to get us into the Halloween mood before the 31st.
Travel back in time and witness both everyday life and great moments in history in this fascinating compliation of diaries through the ages.
Our books cover a huge variety of topics to stimulate a child’s mind, and that’s why teachers, parents and caregivers across the world look to us to support children’s learning.
In the spirit of Halloween, this October we revisited Susan Hill’s classic horror.
Monica McInerney on the family secrets, overseas trips and strange times that shaped her heartwarming new novel.
Jesse Fink reveals the machinations of writing a book with one of the biggest drug traffickers the world has ever known.
‘Space Gandalf’ Greg Quicke puts the magnitude of our solar system into mind-boggling focus.
How to Raise Happy and Successful Children author Esther Wojcicki outlines how your kids can write their own rules around screen time.
Garry Linnell reveals how a childhood fascination led to his exploration of the life, and love, of an oft-forgotten bushranger.
Jane Martino shares her inspiration behind the Smiling Mind picture book series.
Read along with Julia Gillard, Sam Thaiday, Jamila Rizvi and John Wood.
Bec Brown on the quarter-life crisis that changed her career path and what she learned along the way.
Notebooks ready! From You’ve Got This, Bec Brown runs an exercise in evaluating what matters most.
Jacqueline Kent on the inspiration behind her book about an extraordinary woman, Vida.
Advocate for women's rights, campaigner for peace and genuine trailblazer for equality.
Browse the extensive list of books for high school students.
This month we revisit the bachelor’s paradise of the decadent, enigmatic millionaire Jay Gatsby.
The bestselling author on how a trip to Cape Town inspired her fascinating historical fiction novel.
In Eley Williams’ The Liar’s Dictionary, we’re forced to interrogate the very foundations of ‘truth’.
From The Space Between: 29 things we wish we could have told ourselves on the final day of university.
How a little cartoon bird became the icon of stories for kids.
Commissioning Editor for Young Readers, Jess Owen, speaks about her experience working with the Indigenous Literacy Foundation.