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Lester’s 1990 classic about the wonders of nature wins Guardian Australia poll ahead of Possum Magic in second place

The bestselling author gets honest about the TV adaptation.

They say that you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. The internet disagrees! Some cover designs are so terrible, so ridiculously nonsensical, that they’re actually entertaining. It’s any person with taste’s duty to make fun of them. ‘Terrible Book Covers’ is one of the most fun niches on the…

The author’s fourth novel offers a devastating day in the life of a 10-year-old boy who cannot be kept safe

‘Blair’ will re-introduce readers to Manhattan socialite Blair Walforf in her forties

Long after the invasion ended, we all still fear the pod people.

Music app also launches new feature to let people switch between physical and audiobooks

5/5 This wonderful meditation on love, death and mathematics dances through the mind and the heart

The Curious Incident author describes the upbringing that shaped him – and for which he can’t help feeling nostalgia

COMMENT: With a new big-budget film adaptation hitting our screens, the classic 19th-century novel is all anyone can talk about. It’s a shame, then, that it’s such an uncompromisingly terrible read, argues Helen Coffey

Welsh writer and illustrator has had two of his books nominated in distinct categories in the prestigious awards