Author of the bestseller What A Fun Age, returns with another page-turner full of pathos and humour.
Gemma Nisbet
The height of the COVID pandemic provides rich material for the latest offering from a new literary genre — the lockdown novel.
Despite being written over the course of two decades, the themes explored in the latest collection of short stories from Laura Jean McKay are timely in their concerns.
When Seth Malacari decided Australia’s YA fiction landscape needed more diverse voices, he decided to do something about it. The result is a new anthology of queer speculative fiction for young adult readers.
A confident, compelling and heartfelt novel about grief, family, coming of age, connection and racism that’s written with sensitivity and care.
‘Zelda is more than just the actress’s alter ego — I see her as (Marilyn) Monroe’s literary spirit transported across the Pacific and cavorting through time and space.’
Whether you’re reading on a picnic blanket, a beach towel or curled up on a couch in a holiday home, these books are your perfect summer companions
From Young Adult fiction to beautiful picture books, here are some new titles to get the children in your life lost in a book this summer.
A fresh and disturbing spin on the thriller trope of the lengths a parent will go to in order to protect their child
Books editor Gemma Nisbet gives her verdict on the best books of the past year.
Intimate, engaging and willing to sit with the complexities of the timely questions it poses, Stone Yard Devotional may be Charlotte Wood’s best work yet.
The patois of gen Z is used to great effect in this buzzy novel from a first-time Sydney author.
Perth novelist Emma Young tackles anxiety, perfectionism, grief, relationships and diet culture in her second book.
A coming-of-age story meets eco-horror and Australian Gothic in Borderland, the debut young-adult novel by First Nations writer Graham Akhurst.
Zadie Smith turns to historical fiction in her highly anticipated new novel.
Great reads to keep the kids entertained these school holidays
Perth’s suburbs form the backdrop to tales of the cruelties of female adolescence and adulthood in West Girls, the darkly compelling third novel by Laura Elizabeth Woollett
Funder has combined fiction and biography with memoir and literary criticism. She thus aims to take the available facts of Eileen’s life — ‘a woman in pieces’ — and ‘make her live’.
How should we engage with the work of artists, writers and other creatives who’ve done terrible things? Should we?
‘Young dancers absolutely blow me away, not just with their talent, but also their dedication and passion’
Perth author Carrie Cox seeks to understand the true meaning of beauty in Storylines
The “sad girl novel” has become something of a publishing in-joke. Author Pip Finkemeyer takes a wry look at creative angst, authenticity in art and, ultimately, the value of friendship.
This clever and, at times, deliberately uncomfortable thriller is a mix of publishing-industry satire, knowing melodrama and ghost story.
The first non-fiction book from the acclaimed First Nations author Ellen van Neerven is a wide-ranging and highly personal volume of essays, poetry and memoir.
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