The Book Show

Emily Bronte's anniversary is being celebrated all around the world, but how is it being celebrated in the place where she lived, wrote and died?

'Wild, confused, disjointed, and improbable', this is how Emily Bronte's classic gothic novel Wuthering Heights was reviewed when it first came out in 1847, how is it read now?

Australian comedian Kirsty Webeck gives her take on Wuthering Heights. A hint, everyone dies.

Despite being the author of one of the most famous gothic novels, there are many gaps about what is actually known about Emily Bronte, we explore the mythology.

It's the 200th anniversary of Emily Bronte's birth, so we're embracing the windy moors of Yorkshire for this special episode dedicated to all things Emily Bronte.

It's the 200th anniversary of Emily Bronte's birth, so we're embracing the windy moors of Yorkshire for this special episode dedicated to all things Emily Bronte.

For readers who like their fiction dark and edgy, an exhibition tracing early examples of gothic fiction is on at Melbourne University.

Western Australian poets Charmaine Papertalk Green and John Kinsella share poems about colonisation, mining and family in their unique book, False Claims of Colonial Thieves.

Australian author Colleen McCullough's $2.1 million estate will be awarded to her widow, after a long legal battle.

Writer Ryan O'Neill decided to write 99 reinterpretations of Henry Lawson's classic short story, The Drover's Wife. Why?