A sneak peek at Tim Winton's new book

Author Candice Fox has written numerous bestselling novels. And while many people think they have a book in them, it's not as easy as she makes it look. Here she shares her tips on how to write a crime novel.

ABC RN's Big Weekend of Books continues with Tim Winton, Stephanie Alexander, Rachel Cusk, Elizabeth McCracken and Bernadette Brennan and many more.

Elif Shafak is a Turkish-British author whose work explores ideas of exile and powerlessness. Her new novel, There are Rivers in the Sky, will be published later this year and centres on one lost poem, two great rivers, and three lives, all connected by water.

Lisa Ko's debut novel, The Leavers, was a searing look at migration, deportation and who gets to belong. In her second book, Memory Piece, she traces the lifelong friendship of three women and the choices they make to create lives of meaning — in art, protest and technology.

Rachel Cusk writes about love, marriage, freedom and grief in ways both highly personal and transgressive. She speaks with ABC Conversations co-host Sarah Kanowski about her new novel Parade.

Some of the biggest names in publishing sat down with RN to talk all things literary for the Big Weekend of Books. Catch up on all the highlights from our jam-packed schedule in our blog.

Misadventure, self-discovery and a quest for purpose run through Amor Towles' novels, like his bestseller, A Gentleman in Moscow. He joins ABC Radio Sydney's Richard Glover to share how he writes from a place of fascination.

Hisham Matar writes powerfully about exile and nostalgia for a home that can never be — and maybe never was. In his latest novel, My Friends, he tells the story of three friends living in political exile, for whom friendship has become an emotional homeland.

Lucy Sante was 66 when she wrote an email to her closest friends entitled, "A Bombshell". Her bombshell was the acceptance of her lifelong desire to be a woman, a desire she had suppressed from everyone for decades.

The 2023 Booker Prize winner Paul Lynch and bestselling authors Celeste Ng and Christos Tsiolkas reveal the secrets of their reading and writing lives.

Cooking icon Stephanie Alexander talks with ABC RN Blueprint for Living's Jonathan Green and ABC Radio Melbourne's Alice Zaslavsky about how family life shaped her love of food, cooking and gardening — and what it means to truly enjoy food with those you love.

Kim Scott and Tony Birch are two of Australia's most prominent authors. Both have broken ground with their works of fiction and short stories, and they're also academics and activists. With ABC RN Awaye!'s Rudi Bremer, the pair discuss their bodies of work and how writing fiction is a way to dismantle the past.