Irish prize-winning author Eimear McBride speaks about her latest novel The Lesser Bohemians.

Trudy Smith started painting when she was eight-five years of age. Last year, she turned one hundred years old, and to mark the occasion, a retrospective of her artwork was held at the Mundaring Arts Centre, outside Perth.

Leanne Hall's first novel for kids tells the story of Iris Chen-Taylor, a 12-year-old who has been sent by her parents to Spain on an important solo spying mission.

William Cooper is remembered as both an Aboriginal activist and as a hero to the Melbourne Jewish community. Playwrights Andrea James, a descendant of William Cooper, and Elise Hearst, the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, have created a new play about their shared history.

In his latest book, foreign correspondent and novelist Jeremy Gavron goes in search of his mother in an effort to make sense of who she was and why she took her own life.

Novelist, critic and photographer Teju Cole has written a complex novel of Nigeria, of return, of reading, public transport, class and belonging.

Writer Patrick Gale chooses his masterpiece: a 1950 recording of Kathleen Ferrier singing the folk song The Keel Row.

Beloved Israeli writer Etgar Keret on his memoir. He tells stories about his parents who were Holocaust survivors, talks about what it's like raising a child in a war zone and amongst all this serious stuff he makes you laugh.

A new exhibition at Heide brings together the work of three pioneering modernist painters: Georgia O'Keeffe, Margaret Preston and Grace Cossington Smith.

A new production at the National Theatre of Parramatta explores what it means to exist in translation.