‘This is a book that’s got a rooftop chase in it, and a trial for murder and – I hope – a really quite rude sex scene because you’re allowed those in the eighteenth century. And a duel. And a ball. And a banquet. And, and, and! Stuffed full, like a plum pudding.’

Zoe Morrison shares the five works that influenced the writing of her debut novel, Music and Freedom.

Wallis Simpson and Diana Spencer come together for a very unusual hens night in the caustic play by Chris Ioan Roberts

What can pigments tell us about artworks and their creators? Take a tour of the Forbes pigment collection at the Harvard Art Museums in America, home to over three thousand pigment samples, including some new ones from Indigenous Australian artwork.

Sarah Armstrong's new novel, Promise, asks us how far a person can and should go to protect a child.

Ryan O'Neill talks about the books, films, and music that is important to him

When a search for his lost father brings Jason into contact with two dangerous men, he finds his future bound up in a murder from the past.

Darwin's underground WW2 tunnels are the venue for a five day music festival featuring a diverse range of musicians and singers.

Through narration, music and live drawings, You and Me and the Space Between tells the story of a young girl and a sinking island.

From this year's Byron Writers Festival, a conversation with Magda Szubanski and George Megalogenis.