Guestroom - Author Brenda Walker
How do you choose a book which goes with chemotherapy?
View ArticleGuestroom - Mem Fox weaves her literary magic
It's impossible to believe that best selling children's book Possum Magic was rejected by publishers nine times...
View ArticleA Journey into Country
Businesswoman and author Ros Moriarty talks to Leon Compton on being a white woman married to an Indigenous man and the journey that this has led her on into country and culutre.
View ArticleThe Guestroom - Emily Maguire
Author and award winning journalist Emily Maguire talks to Leon Compton about modern feminism and more.
View ArticleThe Guestroom - Marie Munkara
Marie Munkara is stolen generation and an award winning author.
View ArticleLand of the Never Never
Mataranka Homestead, one hundred kilometres south of Katherine, is a tourist drawcard in the Northern Territory, all the more so if travellers have read the Australian literary classic, "We of the...
View ArticleBush Tele Book Club: We of the Never Never
The Bush Telegraph book club reads the 1908 classic, "We of the Never Never" by Jeannie Gunn.
View ArticleThe Guestroom - DBC Pierre
DBC Pierre is an award winning novelist who has a host of wacky stories from his own life.
View ArticleThe Guestroom - John Marsden
John Marsden is best selling author of the Tomorrow series and founder and principal of Candlebark school.
View ArticleThe Guestroom - The Adventures of Steve Crombie
Dodging bullets in Nicaragua, keeping out of the way of pumas in Guyana and sailing with dodgy outlaws in the Caribbean are just some of the tales STEVE CROMBIE tells in his high adventure book LOST ON...
View ArticleBush Telegraph Book Club: The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith
This month's book is the novel "The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith" by Tom Keneally.
View ArticleInternationally-acclaimed author 'feels love' at sewerage ponds
He has sold millions of books, won literary awards and counts Barack Obama as one of his fans...so how did he end up on the fringes of sewerage ponds in Darwin this week?
View ArticleGuestroom - Alison Lester
Children's author and illustrator Alison Lester has written numerous bestsellers including Imagine and Clive eats Alligators...
View ArticleQueen of Crime Fiction Lynda La Plante
Lynda La Plante is one of the world's most successful crime writers.
View ArticleGuestroom - Jennifer Mills, Territory author
Local author Jennifer Mills has just published her second novel...a haunting tale called Gone
View ArticleGuestroom - Judy Nunn
Judy Nunn is an actor, scriptwriter and now bestselling novellist...
View ArticleGuestroom - Colleen McCullough
Colleen McCullough is Australia's best selling author. She started writing as a neuroscientist at Yale University, and in her spare time penned the phenomenally successful book The Thorn Birds.
View ArticleIconic animals - the horse
The Australian horse - the waler, the stockhorse - is one of our iconic animals immortalised by poets like Banjo Patterson and seized on by Australian novelists, movie makers, and artists.
View ArticleGuestroom - Dave Graney
Musician Dave Graney has been on the scene since the early '80s, and he's just written a memoir called 1001 Australian Nights...
View ArticleGuestroom - Mandy Sayer
Author Mandy Sayer is in the Territory for this year's Darwin Festival...
View ArticleThe Guestroom - Adrian d'Hage
Adrian d'Hage is an ex military man turned author, researching the ancient Mayan and Inca cultures for his latest books.
View ArticleArtist and author Rod Moss in The Guestroom
In early 1986, Rod Moss met his neighbours and his life would change forever. Rod has been involved with the Whitegate Aboriginal community ever since, a friendship that has also been translated into...
View ArticleFrom Greece to Papunya - Author Nadia Wheatley
Nadia Wheatley is a highly acclaimed author who has written books for children, young adults and adults
View ArticleWordstorm Guestroom - Verena Tay
Verena Tay is an author, actor, playwright and storyteller from Singapore...
View ArticleGuestroom - Kathy Lette
Kathy Lette is one of Australia's best known wits and the author of ten novels...
View ArticleGuestroom - Chris Uhlmann and Steve Lewis
Fact is stranger than fiction. That's been proven time and time again in Australian politics. But what happens when two of our best journos decide to put their political minds into fiction?
View ArticleCrossing Antarctica - James Castrission and Justin Jones
James Castrission and Justin Jones (otherwise known as Cas and Jonesy) are childhood friends and intrepid adventurers...
View ArticleGuestroom - Uzodinma Iweala
Uzodinma Iweala is a Nigerian doctor who has written a book about HIV/AIDS in Africa...
View ArticleArtist and author Rod Moss in The Guestroom
In early 1986, Rod Moss met his neighbours and his life would change forever. Rod has been involved with the Whitegate Aboriginal community ever since, a friendship that has also been translated into...
View ArticleGuestroom - Lily Brett
Lily Brett's latest novel Lola Bensky is inspired by her career as a rock journo in the 1960's...
View ArticleHarry Potter-inspired book Benson, Bella and the Evil Pumpkins wins award in...
A group of primary school children in Katherine have turned a failed attempt at growing vegies into an award-winning book about evil pumpkins with magic powers.
View ArticleBook Week: Brisbane 12yo raises almost $3,000 for Indigenous Literacy Foundation
While travelling in the NT last year, Brisbane student Sam Giles was shocked to learn about Indigenous literacy levels so he decided to do something about it.
View ArticleAboriginal playgroup parents work together to create bilingual story time
More than 5,000 children's picture books have been translated into Aboriginal languages and given to families throughout the Northern Territory.
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