The Latest Breaking News from Craig Silvey

Sydney stage adaptation and new book put on hold after Runt and Jasper Jones author arrested

Popular novels have been axed from school reading lists and publishers have stopped promotions after an author was accused of sharing child abuse material.

The Coconut Children by Vivian Pham is one of six literary adaptations to be staged at the Sydney theatre next year, alongside The Birds, A Room With a View and the Craig Silvey bestseller Runt

Todd Graves worked as a boilermaker in an oil refinery near California and fished salmon in Alaska in harsh conditions before opening Raising Cane's fast-food chain that only sold chicken fingers and made him over $9 billion in less than three decades.

It's the first time a graphic novel has won the Older Readers category.

'To have them all at the one festival is pretty amazing'

Much-loved Australian writers Craig Silvey and Pip Williams, and debut authors Mawunyo Gbogbo, Andrew Quilty, and Amy Thunig, have been announced as the first of what will be 100 artists in the 10th Newcastle Writers Festival.

In our weekly interview about objects, the hit Australian author tells us about moonlighting as an electric ukulele player – and the childhood stories he wrote