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

Kate Mildenhall’s fourth novel takes a group of progressive urbanites into the bush and exposes the conflicts and contradictions among them. This novel moves from the familiar and domestic to a place ...

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

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

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 ...

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, ...

James O’Loghlin wanted to help a dying friend. He ended up running a campaign to change the law for victims of asbestos. There is something special about friends made during your formative years as a ...

The characters in Kris Kneen’s latest novel free themselves from the constraints of gender, diving into a new world beneath the waves. Two people alone on a challenging frontier, surviving physically ...

Alexandria Burnham’s debut historical novel takes inspiration from a real-life convict, mutineer and pirate. They called me nine-nine-nine. Swallow was the name I preferred. I’d not been born with it; ...

JP Pomare’s eighth novel explores the intersection of gambling, AI, and politics in a masterful thriller that keeps you guessing. The Gambler opens with an incongruous, unsettling scene in an Amish ...