A tarot reading with global implications, a tent decorated with fake hair and an unpredictable ride on a Harley Davidson all feature in Perth's intimate Proximity Festival.

The scary clown is back in town. We compare the book to film adaptation of Stephen King's It.

Robyn Archer is back in a cabaret star role, and she has dug deep into the chanson archives to where it all began in 19th century France right through to the 1970's.

Omar Musa is an award-winning author, poet and rapper as well as a star of poetry slams and writers festivals.

The acclaimed and mysterious children's book has been adapted for the stage by Spare Parts Puppet Theatre.

A thriller writer who is a master of the unexpected twist.

Crime fiction that is explicitly about the past or imbedded in the past.

One very strange night in Glasgow in the late 1950s, a serial killer went on a bender with a man whose family he had killed. Denise Mina has turned this night into something between a novel and a piece of 'true crime'.

A conversation with British American writer Tracy Chevalier about her recent books New Boy, a retelling of Shakespeare's tragedy Othello, and At the Edge of the Orchard, which is set in 19th century America and tells the story of a dysfunctional pioneer family.

Roberto Bolaño's acclaimed work takes us in to the bohemian world of the 'visceral realist' poets in 1970s Mexico City.