Tuesday, 9 May 2017
Julian Burnside is well known to those who follow refugee policy and human rights issues in Australia. In Watching Out, a successor to the earlier volume Watching Brief, Burnside examines...

Tuesday, 9 May 2017
What better set-up than a huge family gathering to dissect attitudes, skewer pretensions and tell lots of stories? On a hot November weekend at his newly acquired vineyard near Ballarat,...

Tuesday, 9 May 2017
Despite a bracingly strange start—a dead narrator speaks of when ‘we lifted ourselves from the riverbed and went back up the hill into town’; a skeleton of wood and stone...

Tuesday, 9 May 2017
Two boats on Indonesian waters: one carrying Australian surf tourists, the other filled with asylum seekers. In Canberra, the Minister for Immigration announces a new policy to outsource responsibility for...

Tuesday, 9 May 2017
Common People is Tony Birch’s third story collection and sixth work of fiction. He is a natural storyteller (as are many of his characters), and is deft at creating believable, if...

Thursday, 27 April 2017
Eliza Henry Jones’ second novel demands that you slow down, take a breath and settle in. This beautifully written novel will eventually reward you for working past the slow opening....

Thursday, 27 April 2017
A coming-of-age story with a fierce, feminist heart and a broad sense of purpose, Brodie Lancaster’s debut memoir No Way! Okay Fine is narrated through a series of chronological yet...

Thursday, 27 April 2017
Judy Horacek’s whimsical cartoons have long been a fixture in the Australian media landscape; Random Life (published through her own just-released imprint) is Horacek’s ninth collection. In the foreword, John...

Thursday, 27 April 2017
Set in the wine country of South Australia’s Clare Valley, and in Ireland, Monica McInerney’s latest novel is a saga about family, memories and promises, secrets and lies. At the...