Wednesday, 23 September 2015
Wise, vital and relayed in Modjeska’s restrained, sophisticated prose, it’s a major contribution to a literary lineage traceable to Virginia Woolf … read Gerard Elson’s full review here.

Wednesday, 16 September 2015
Tom Houghton is a classic first-person coming-of-age novel about a boy with huge dreams. 1986: 12-year-old Tom is a lonely and introverted child. He’s obsessed with Hollywood movie stars, and...

Wednesday, 9 September 2015
Magda Szubanski is one of Australia’s best-known comedians but what’s less known is her interesting family history. Her father, who fought in the Polish resistance, lived with the scars of...

Wednesday, 2 September 2015
Kate Morton’s fifth novel transports the reader back and forth between 1930s Cornwall and London in 2003. This epic tale opens with the disappearance of a child on the eve...

Tuesday, 25 August 2015
In a story that takes in murderous crims, a band of garrulous vagrants and a hazily defined Pentecostalist-style cult, Ghost River engages and frustrates in equal measure … read Gerard...

Wednesday, 19 August 2015
The Landing is a boutique Queensland suburb full of summer houses for the financially comfortable with all their associated dramas. After his wife leaves him for a woman, Jonathan Lott...

Wednesday, 12 August 2015
The small-town setting of Mobius captures and amplifies the isolation of adolescence. It is the perfect backdrop for Inbetween Days, a story about the bruises left on our hearts by...

Wednesday, 5 August 2015
Screenwriter and director Shirley Barrett has mixed fact and fiction to tell the story of the whaling community of Eden in New South Wales in the early years of the...

Wednesday, 29 July 2015
The latest novel from the author of Animal People and Love and Hunger is a powerful story of misogyny and corporate control taken to disturbing extremes … read Portia Lindsay’s...