Fleur McDonald had long wanted to try her hand at crime, so last year she left her long-time publisher, signed with HarperCollins, and wrote The Prospect, set in Kalgoorlie.
Katherine Fleming
Farmer-turned-writer Fleur McDonald has spent 15 years as a bestselling author. What made her decide to risk it all?
Kojonup farmer June Williams has written a book called You Have 6 Months about her journey with stage 4 lung cancer
Claire Middleton
The Irish-Australian author is making an anticipated return to her beloved DS Cormac Reilly series with new novel The Unquiet Grave.
Megan French
The actor has turned her hand to writing with the release of I Am Nannertgarrook, the powerful story of her First Nations ancestor who was kidnapped from her home and sold to the slave market.
Jade Jurewicz
Nothing good ever comes from anything being in the dark,” says Rachel Bin Salleh.
Natasha Clark
Proud Yawuru man and Broome-based artist Brenton E. McKenna has always felt a pull towards writing tales and creating illustrations about hairy folk.
The author of a much-loved vampire novel series that was adapted for screens has died aged 66, with fans expressing their love and grief online.
Max Corstorphan
She was the only woman to lead a French resistance network in World War II, and is the heroine of internationally bestselling Perth author Natasha Lester’s newest book.
West Australian country-born author Michael Trant has opened up about his latest rural thriller Blood and Gold in Manjimup this month.
Anjelica Smilovitis
Since the actor and gen X It Girl made her film debut at 15 with Keanu Reeves in River’s Edge, she’s been linked to powerful people, mostly men. In Say Everything, she hopes to let some of her stories go.
Dina Gachman
In 1995, a family with five kids 14 and under moved from Perth to the wetlands in Lowlands, a peaceful place between Albany and Denmark.
Sofia Fimognari
The Sydney Writers’ Festival has announced its new chair, just days after Kathy Shand quit over concerns this year’s event lacked diverse views on the Gaza conflict.
Zoe De Koning
A local initiative to get Albany children reading celebrated 20 years on Friday with a disco and face painting for parents and their young ones
Jacki Elezovich
Albany author John M. Taylor will launch the second edition of his novel I Will Find You in Albany this weekend.
Denmark author Marlane Ainsworth’s new gift book offers nuggets of gold wisdom from her everyday life and time spent in her cottage garden.
The owner of Perth’s newest independent bookstore opened on Saturday amid a cost-of-living crisis, a national decline in reading and a time when bricks and mortar continues to struggle against online shopping.
Kate Emery
Experts have revealed the “huge gripe” they have with a major trend dividing an Aussie industry while it simultaneously brings a community together.
Clareese Packer
Excited Aussies set up camp in the streets in a desperate bid to get their hands on a new and eagerly awaited item overnight.
Two senior opposing MPs have put politics aside to push back against a move to reclassify classic films and books.
Joseph Olbrycht-Palmer
A West Australian author who set her debut young adult novel in Nannup has surprisingly attracted mostly adult readers because of the location.
Our favourite things include an empowering book written by a Hollywood star, a fabulous local Fringe show and metallic ECCO sandals.
STM team
From cosy crime to a love story with a difference, these are the best new page-turners to get lost in this summer.
Cy Clayton
