Isabelle Li weaves together the stories of characters in northern China, and the tumultuous events that reverberate through ...

Editor Casey Mulder brings together the stories of five First Nations women spanning the decades since World War II.

Wayne Marshall gives Australia’s famous bush poet an alternative experience of his career-defining trip to Bourke.

Jordan Harper's new novel violently deconstructs the American dream and shows little has changed since James Ellroy's ...

Nadia Wheatley charts what happened to the prisoners after the liberation of Bergen-Belsen, and their impact on events in the ...

Mark McKenna’s short history is both broad and nuanced, demanding a new understanding of our country’s past. It’s a shame Pauline Hansen and her supporters are unlikely to read this book. If they did, ...

Twenty years have passed since the brutal death of James Brandt’s beloved cousin. Will an inquiry into gay hate-crimes offer any resolution? In 2021 journalist Michael Burge released his first novel ...

Colm Toibin’s tenth novel imagines the life and times of novelist Thomas Mann, whose books were banned by the Nazis in his native Germany. The Magician is a very clever and enjoyable novel based on ...

Adam Thompson’s vivid stories encompass resistance, revenge, and hard truths. The 16 stories that comprise Adam Thompson’s debut collection are all set among Tasmania’s Aboriginal community. Many of ...

Rachelle Unreich tells her mother’s extraordinary story of surviving the horror of the Holocaust to go on and live ‘a brilliant life’. A Brilliant Life by Melbourne journalist and author, Rachelle ...

Tara June Winch’s multi-award-winning novel is told in three voices, one of which takes the form of a dictionary. Yield, bend the feet, tread, as in walking, also long, tall – baayanha. Yield itself ...

Poet and essayist Fiona Wright’s funny and furious debut novel tackles generational inequality and Australia’s housing crisis. How did it come to this? As one character puts it in Fiona Wright’s new ...