Publishing more fiction by Australian authors with disability is crucial for disabled people's representation - and their wellbeing. By ABC Top 5 Arts resident Liel Bridgford for The Book Show.

As a result, many Australian science fiction authors resort to self-publishing — or go with smaller publishers that might not have the marketing might of the bigger players.

John Purcell, Director of Books at Booktopia, and author of The Girl on the Page, says 70 per cent of Booktopia’s Top 20 Fiction Bestsellers were Australian titles in 2018.

Tim Winton's Dirt Music was No.7 on the Australian adult-fiction bestseller list for 2003, and his old hit Cloudstreet sold more than 27,000 copies the same year.

Internationally, spy novels are surfing a 40-year wave of commercial success that has transformed the genre into a multi-billion-dollar behemoth sp ...

It's very different if you win the Miles Franklin Literary award or the Man Booker, but most Australian authors earn only $12,900 from their writing, according to a new study from Macquarie ...

Anxiety around the bush, as described in D.H. Lawrence’s novel Kangaroo back in the 1920s, is a feature of settler Australian fiction, tied together with violence, trauma and a sense of the uncanny.

With American writers set to dominate, Australian authors can say goodbye to their chances of scooping the prestigious literary prize. Say goodbye to Australian authors' Booker chances.

The Australian Fiction Prize was open to anyone who dreamed of one day having a book on the shelves, but crucially it was open also to experienced writers seeking a new direction.