Tuesday, 25 October 2022
What is it like to live on welfare in Australia today? In Who Cares? researcher Eve Vincent endeavours to answer this question, with a special focus on the experiences of...

Tuesday, 25 October 2022
Lucy is a music journalist with a penchant for 80s party dresses, long, languorous walks, and throwing decadent dinner parties for her friends. Robin is the dark-eyed, softly spoken man...

Tuesday, 25 October 2022
In Luke Rutledge’s A Man and His Pride, 26-year-old Sean Preston navigates the realities of being in his 20s—work, relationships, sexuality, mental health—against the backdrop of Australia’s 2017 same-sex marriage...

Wednesday, 19 October 2022
It’s a well-worn storyline for Australian crime fiction: a detective arrives in a small town only to discover that danger lurks beneath quaint country manners; the detective is usually running...

Wednesday, 19 October 2022
Recently widowed, Kate Whittaker is trying her hardest to navigate the grief of losing her husband, Cam, while also being a single mother to their young son. That’s not to...

Tuesday, 11 October 2022
The way we understand pain evolves, and it is misunderstood even within the medical community. Part physical, part psychological, it is notoriously difficult to study. In Why Does it Still...

Tuesday, 4 October 2022
Melbourne-born Louis Nowra moved to Sydney as an adult and has never lost his passion for his adopted home. Whether he’s describing the city’s mercurial weather, its elegant convict-designed colonial...

Tuesday, 4 October 2022
‘Twisty mystery’ is the delightfully accurate descriptor on the AI sheet for this character-based drama. Yet before its mysterious elements begin unspooling, the characters and setting are firmly established, endearing...

Tuesday, 27 September 2022
Australia's 2022 federal election brought a major upset: six independent female candidates—colloquially known as ‘the teals’ for the signature colour they adopted (a blend of green and Liberal blue)—catapulted into...

Tuesday, 20 September 2022
Minds Went Walking is a collection of responses to the work of singer-songwriter Paul Kelly. Curated by Jock Serong, Mark Smith and Neil A White, this is a no-rules collection...

Tuesday, 6 September 2022
Marick is unsure of his place in the world; he knew he wasn’t quite suited to the church, but he’s apprehensive that a new part-time job as a hospital chaplain...

Tuesday, 30 August 2022
Patricia Clarke started her career in journalism in 1951, a time when the industry was very much a man's world but women were making inroads. In Bold Types, Clarke gives...

Tuesday, 23 August 2022
Award-winning novelist Gail Jones’s new offering adapts the First World War experiences of four very real people: British artists Grace Pailthorpe and Stanley Spencer, and Australians Olive King and Stella...