Anna McGahan’s Immaculate is the winner of this year's The Australian / Vogel’s Award for Young Writers, which has launched the careers of over a hundred Australian authors, including Anna’s uncle, beloved Australian novelist Andrew McGahan.

Former New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern has announced she is writing a book, with the focus more on leadership than on politics.

One of the UK’s leading literary industry talents has been announced as the new artistic director of Auckland Writers Festival, Waituhi O Tāmaki.

A 'powerfully compelling' novel narrated by a cheeky magpie called Tama has flown off with New Zealand's top literary prize.

New Zealand author Eleanor Catton has made Granta's Best of Young British Novelists list. The literary magazine, whose list has been published every year since 1983, has declared Catton, 37, one of its 20 most significant British novelist aged under 40.

Australian author Michelle de Kretser's novel, Scary Monsters, has won this year's Rathbones Folio Prize for fiction.

English-born Australian publishing entrepreneur, businessman and writer Tony Wheeler has won the Edward Stanford Award for Outstanding Contribution to Travel Writing.

The Tattooist of Auschwitz, the bestselling novel by New Zealand-born, Melbourne-based writer Heather Morris is being turned into a six-part TV series.

The highly anticipated fifth novel from 'Australian queen of crime' author Jane Harper, Exiles, hit the shelves in the UK on 2 February. Arriving with great fanfare, it's now been hailed 'book of the month' by The Times.

Where are we now, ten years on from Julia Gillard's "misogyny speech" - the speech that stopped us all in our tracks? The new book from Australia's former prime minister, Not Now Not Ever, is a barn-burning piece of Australian feminist history in the making.

This month, hundreds of writers will be writing and rewriting their stories before submitting them for the 2023 Commonwealth Short Story Prize.

The literary world is abuzz with the thrilling news that Australian author Kate Morton's hugely anticipated new book, Homecoming, will be published in the UK on 13 April 2023. Morton, who has written six novels, is one of Australia's biggest publishing exports having sold more than 16 million books in 42 countries.

The UK/Australia Season 2021 -22 Brochure is now available to download. Catch up on the amazing line-up of events taking place across the UK this year.

BBC show Between the Covers has revealed further books, including The Secret River by Sydney-born Kate Grenville, that will be discussed in its star-studded new series.

The Stella Prize for Australian women and non-binary writers worth $50,000, has just announced its shortlist for 2022 - with the inclusion, for the first time ever, of poetry. Experimental in genre and form, these bold and compelling new works – half of them by debut authors – are in the running for the tenth annual prize.

From the bestselling author of Burial Rites and The Good People, Devotion is a stunning story of girlhood and friendship, faith and suspicion, and the impossible lengths we go to for the ones we love.

This week sees the publication of Looted Gold, a book written by New Zealanders Blake Wilkins and Mike Dwight to debunk the myth of the missing Kruger millions, and expose the efforts of President Paul Kruger’s oligarchic regime to plunder the wealth of the Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR) before Kruger fled the country in May 1900.

Sorrow and Bliss, the critically acclaimed debut novel by New Zealand author Meg Mason, is being serialised this week as BBC Radio 4’s Book of the Week.