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Mutiny on the Bounty: Bligh, Christian and a haul of coconuts
9 April 1789, 120 miles north-west of Tahiti Captain William Bligh simply won’t let up. Now that they are back at...
The decomposing body that gripped Victorian England
The secrets behind the mystery of the decomposing body in the basement of a large London house that gripped Victorian...
Is Jane Harper's latest book The Lost Man better than The Dry?
Talking points Jane Harper will be in Canberra on November 7 for two eventsANU/Canberra Times meet the author event, in...
The Lake on Fire review: Rosellen Brown tells a classic American story
Fleeing the pogroms of Russia for the promise of America, Chaya Shaderowsky winds up, improbably, in the wilds of 19th-century...
Melbourne Writers Festival: Marieke Hardy oversees ticket sale surge
It's been described as everything from "a hug fest" to representative of the so-called generational split over freedom of speech....
The night a corpse knocked on a lighthouse window
Author shares unsettling and extraordinary tales from Britain's lighthouses - including the night a corpse knocked on a keeper's window...
Thanks a lot Mr Kibblewhite by Roger Daltrey
Sex and drugs and rock ’n’ roll? Well, two out of three ain’t bad for The Who's lead singer Roger...
Turning Pages: What would have happened to Matilda?
Long before Hermione Granger, there was another super-intelligent schoolgirl with magical powers: Roald Dahl's Matilda Wormwood. When Dahl wrote his...
Anne Summers: 'I am not yet finished and I never will be'
Talking points Anne Summers says there are political parties in this country who do still not accept the fact that...