Libyan writer Hisham Matar's new book is a powerful, unflinching account of his struggle to find out what happened to his father, who disappeared during the dictatorship of Colonel Gaddafi.

Claire Cunningham has won critical acclaim for her unique dance pieces, which incorporate the crutches she's used since she was 14 years old. In Guide Gods, she explores themes of religion and disability, as well as the universal appeal of a cup of tea.

A new work exploring the Aboriginal kinship system by two choreographers who got to know each other – and discovered they were related – while dancing together at Bangarra Dance Theatre.

Richard Roxburgh on Cleaver Greene, Chekhov, and writing for kids.

The 1948 novel by South African writer Alan Paton, one of the most admired and acclaimed novels in South African literature.

Last year, Australian writer Cory Taylor died, just a few weeks after her memoir about dying was published.

A feisty conversation with Angela Flournoy, Emily Maguire, Rosalyn D'Mello and Celeste Liddle on feminism and writing, live from the Melbourne Writers Festival.

Much-loved Australian children’s author and illustrator, Jeannie Baker followed a long-legged wading bird to Alaska, China and South Korea for her new book, Circle.

At the Margaret River Readers and Writers Festival, a very tender conversation with poet Dennis Haskell, about his book Ahead of Us, a collection of poems which documents his experience of his wife dying from cancer.

Irish author Maggie O'Farrell discusses This Must Be the Place, her complex and technically inventive new novel about a perfect marriage that goes off course.