Wednesday, 29 June 2016
Play On! is a meticulously researched chronology of the genesis, evolution and trials of women’s footy. The sport has long been buried beneath the budget and reverence of men’s football,...

Wednesday, 29 June 2016
Martin Feil has over 20 years’ experience in advising multinational companies and the Australian Tax Office. In this timely book, Feil argues that the tax minimisation practices of multinational companies...

Wednesday, 29 June 2016
According to some of the best research, close to 50% of all jobs will be automated in the next 20 years. Whether these jobs will be replaced, as has happened...

Wednesday, 29 June 2016
‘The traditional shearer’s campfire yarning, joking, chiacking and debating over politics, general news, women, sport and family were morphing from culture to folklore,’ writes Alan Blunt. It’s a change that...

Wednesday, 29 June 2016
This is the 30th book from Roland Perry, who is well known for his books on Australian military history and cricket. Its subject is a courtesan who lived in Paris...

Thursday, 26 May 2016
Readers who enjoy the drama of television shows such as The Bachelor will appreciate the premise of Love Elimination by Sarah Gates. Anna Hobbs is so close to her dream...

Thursday, 26 May 2016
Tara June Winch focsuses on shared humanity in this collection of short stories. Her protagonists belong to groups dismissed by the white, straight, middle-class eye: in ‘Happy’, a gay couple...

Thursday, 26 May 2016
Entitled Shibboleth, after the winning story by Jo Riccioni, this absorbing anthology of entries from the Margaret River Short Story Competition demonstrates the calibre of the short-story scene. The contributors...

Thursday, 26 May 2016
In this harrowing memoir, James Miller, a successful solicitor and academic author, describes a young adulthood stolen and a life spent in hell. In 1978, at the age of 15,...

Thursday, 26 May 2016
We don’t see much formally innovative, experimental writing in Australian fiction—realist narratives tend to rule the roost. Also rare is genuinely fine comic writing. Enter then Ryan O’Neill, who, with...

Thursday, 26 May 2016
Australia has long looked to the bush as a formative element of our national character despite being one of the most urbanised countries in the world. Our cities have shaped,...

Thursday, 26 May 2016
After tobacco, alcohol is shown to cause the most drug-related deaths in the world. It’s one of many facts that are threaded through Elspeth Muir’s intricately crafted memoir Wasted. But...

Thursday, 26 May 2016
Anna Spargo-Ryan has a strong voice on social media and in shorter-form writing, advocating for mental-health awareness by being honest about her own raw experiences with mental illness. Her debut...

Thursday, 26 May 2016
Local literary journal The Lifted Brow makes its first foray into trade publishing with this debut speculative-fiction novel by regular Brow columnist Briohny Doyle. In the middle-distant future, major ecological...

Thursday, 26 May 2016
In Ghost Empire radio presenter Richard Fidler recounts his travels to Rome and Istanbul with his 14-year-old son, exploring the fabled Land Walls of Constantinople and undertaking a rite of...

Tuesday, 10 May 2016
Artist and writer Kim Mahood grew up on Tanami Downs Station in the Northern Territory. She has always felt the strong pull of the land and its Indigenous people, and...

Tuesday, 10 May 2016
What place is there for poetry in Australia’s highly divisive and politicised public debate about refugees and immigration? It’s a question the editors of this significant new collection of both...

Tuesday, 10 May 2016
Liane Moriarty is an author with a dedicated fan-base, and it seems only fair to preface this review by saying I have not read any of her previous novels. Not...

Tuesday, 10 May 2016
Kate Mildenhall’s debut novel Skylarking is a historical novel reminiscent of Hannah Kent’s Burial Rites and Shirley Barrett’s Rush Oh!, though perhaps for a younger readership. It’s a story of...

Friday, 29 April 2016
Rebellious Daughters features a stellar line-up of Australian female writers sharing touching stories of rebellion, family life, coming of age and motherhood. Edited by Maria Katsonis and Lee Kofman, this...