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Cato Kwong is back, and in Heaven Sent, the fourth in the hugely popular series, he’s dealing with a killer who has a very personal vendetta. Award-winning crime writer Alan Carter chats to Jen Bowden about strong female characters, homelessness and keeping it local in the latest episode of the Fremantle Press Podcast.

Fremantle Press editor Armelle Davies offers her six top tips to writers on how to make effective new year resolutions … and how to make sure you stick to them.

DAVE WARNER IS A STAR. I know you all knew that but I just wanted to underline it in bold caps. Not only is his book Clear to the Horizon on the longlist for the International Dublin Literary Award but he’s also just written a swell new crime novel set in the early sixties when […]

With all the books out there, it’s hard to pick the perfect gift for the readers among your family and friends, but luckily we’ve got a wide range of books to suit every bookworm – even the fussy ones. Check out our handy gift guide below.

Award-winning crime writers Alan Carter and Dave Warner are in the running to win the 2019 International DUBLIN Literary Award, worth 100,000 euros. The pair join 12 other Australian authors and 129 international authors on the prize’s longlist.

Read an interview with City of Fremantle T.A.G Hungerford Award winner Holden Sheppard and an extract from his novel Invisible Boys.

Geraldton-born writer Holden Sheppard has won the 2018 City of Fremantle T.A.G. Hungerford Award for his manuscript Invisible Boys.

2016 City of Fremantle T.A.G. Hungerford winner Jay Martin takes us behind diplomatic doors and into the Australian Embassy deep in the heart of Europe. Christmas, she says, will never be the same.

Members of the Emerging Writers Pilot Program will meet for the first time later this month at a workshop run by Fremantle Press and WA Poets Inc.

Hello and welcome to November!

After selling out in less than 48 hours, the City of Melville and Fremantle Press Great Big Book Club Tea Party was packed to capacity on Sunday 21 October at A.H. Bracks Library in Melville.

The historic Albany whaling station that played an integral part in Chris Pash’s book The Last Whale will mark the fortieth anniversary of its closure this month.

Acclaimed landscape photographer Richard Woldendorp’s latest book, The Tree, has just been published by Fremantle Press.

Dianne Wolfer has researched and written extensively about World War I and II. Here she explains what inspired her to write her Light trilogy and what she’ll be doing to mark the centenary of the end of World War I this year.

Read an interview with City of Fremantle T.A.G Hungerford Award shortlisted writer Trish Versteegen plus an extract from her novel The Seventh Sister.

Meet Alan Fyfe, one of the six writers shortlisted for the 2018 City of Fremantle T.A.G. Hungerford Award. Here he chats to Claire Miller about his novel, Floaters.

Hot on the heels of having her second novel, Gwen, shortlisted for the Most Underrated Book Award, Goldie Goldbloom’s The Paperbark Shoe is one of six new books selected for the Big Read program by the USA’s National Endowment for the Arts.

Read an interview with City of Fremantle T.A.G. Hungerford Award shortlisted writer Yuot Alaak and read an extract from his book Father of the Lost Boys.

Meet Julie Sprigg, one of the six writers shortlisted for the 2018 City of Fremantle T.A.G. Hungerford Award. Here she chats to Claire Miller about her memoir, Chewing Porridge.

Goldie Goldbloom’s novel Gwen has been shortlisted for the Most Underrated Book Award 2018 by the Small Press Network.

Read an extract from Zoe Deleuil’s manuscript She Came to Stay and an interview with the author.

Off the Track and To the Lighthouse author Cristy Burne has got her own wheels in the form of Sydney Writers’ Festival’s Russ the Story Bus.

Grab all the latest bookmarks and activity sheets for the new releases from Fremantle Press.

Get creative in the classroom like Rostrata and Freshwater Bay primary schools and you could win $500 worth of books for your classroom.