Reading recommendations featuring stories from the Australian cricket, AFL, rugby and soccer fields.

In the second part of our sports stories series, we turn our attention to books by and about the Australian athletes on the basketball and tennis courts and in the swimming pool.

Find your axe, put on your skates and grab a beer for these lesser-known sports that need more attention.

The librarians of the National Library have put together their top picks for summer holiday reading.

Explore handwritten diaries that can now be read online.

Learn about one of our largest manuscripts collections.

See what's happening at the Library this summer, including exhibitions, tours and more.

Explore some of the speculative fiction reads in the collection and how they can help future generations understand society in the time they were written.

Learn about the mantlepiece display at the entrance to our Hopes and Fears: Australian Migration Stories exhibition.

Learn about the real school ship Sobraon behind Sarah Luke and NLA Publishing's children's book Marion and the Forty Thieves.