Wednesday, 16 July 2014
Golden Boys is not a departure for Sonya Hartnett, but it’s a continuation of her craft that shows why she is one of Australia’s best writers, for adults as well...

Wednesday, 9 July 2014
After a failed heart transplant, Leon is the world’s first recipient of an entirely mechanical heart, engineered and implanted in secret. He is recruited by a Texan entrepreneur to join...

Wednesday, 2 July 2014
The premise of Jessie Cole’s second novel is reminiscent of her acclaimed debut novel Darkness on the Edge of Town: a car accident brings a stranger into the lives of...

Wednesday, 25 June 2014
The fire swept through Murramunda two months ago. For bird-loving Robin, it was the spark that caused her family to fall apart, forcing her and her mum to move to...

Wednesday, 18 June 2014
Strong characters and a standout depiction of high school bullying make Claire Zorn’s second YA novel, following The Sky So Heavy, worth reading. In the present tense, 14-year-old Hannah awaits...

Thursday, 12 June 2014
Sassy, hard-drinking, menthol-smoking, blonde-curled protagonist Izzy is a newspaper journalist and daughter of a cop who is determined to reveal the truth, particularly about racism and police injustice. A big...

Wednesday, 4 June 2014
Former prime minister Malcolm Fraser argues that for too long Australia has relied on what he terms ‘strategic dependence’. Rather than set our own course on defence strategy and foreign...

Wednesday, 28 May 2014
In her first book of fiction, writer and literary journalist Angela Meyer demonstrates her gift for painting vivid pictures with a few adroit, restrained brush strokes. ‘Few’ being the operative word here...

Wednesday, 21 May 2014
Set in the Wimmera Mallee in Victoria’s north-west, award-winning author Craig Sherborne’s second novel Tree Palace is about a group of street smart survivors living on society’s fringe. They are itinerants or...

Wednesday, 14 May 2014
Ash’s flight out of Auckland is grounded by an erupting volcano, so she heads back into the city. With her new friends, she visits the drive-in for a disaster-movie marathon,...

Wednesday, 7 May 2014
His name is Kyle, but everyone calls him Calypso. In high school he grew dreadlocks, started listening to reggae and took to the ganja with a vengeance. Calypso isn’t Jamaican...

Wednesday, 30 April 2014
Frank is a contracts lawyer who lives his life according to an explicit set of rules. But after a serious car crash, Frank has forgotten all that he once knew...

Thursday, 24 April 2014
A young art history student from New Zealand finds himself stranded at a railway station on the French/Spanish border, where he meets an alluring and mysterious older woman. They go...

Wednesday, 16 April 2014
Saving Thanehaven has possibly the strangest premise of any recent teen book: the protagonists are characters in computer games. The antagonist is a virus named Rufus, set out to sow...