May 25, 2013 There are some interesting visual devices to help sweep us through the characters.

May 25, 2013 For those after some darker thrills, there are some well-executed action scenes.

May 25, 2013 This time, the storyline is a little bit different.

May 25, 2013 My Tour is strictly televised, ridden solo, armed with flannelette pyjamas and Tour de France for Dummies.

May 25, 2013 What do lofty ambitions, big names and loads of money add up to? Sometimes it's less than zero.

May 25, 2013 Vincent Fantauzzo's tender portraits of Asher Keddie offer a glimpse into the private life of a very public couple.

May 25, 2013 There are, broadly speaking, three kinds of TV kid: the adorable; the annoying; and the creepy.

May 25, 2013 Considering that she has been such a powerful presence in Australian poetry for at least the past half-dozen years, it is a surprise that Hotel Hyperion is only Lisa Gorton's second published book of verse, after 2007's Press Release . Readers have known her through such anthologies as Black Inc.'s Best Australian Poems, in which she has featured from 2008 to 2012. Gorton is also the author of the eerie and frightening 2008 young-adult novel Cloudland, whose concerns with clouds, deep space and the uncanny are vividly present in her poetry as well. Thus the title poem of her new collection refers to the hotel, formerly a prison (''its guest rooms kept the old locks'') that travels far into space, ''voyaging/to the forsaken places'', drawing us there too, as if in a dream, or recovered memory.

May 25, 2013 In a strange and compelling literary project, the author combines Proustian self-consciousness with the voyeurism of reality television.

May 25, 2013 In a strong year for emerging writers, The Sydney Morning Herald shines a spotlight on six winners with extraordinary stories.