Wednesday, 16 February 2022
Society bride Vivienne has left her groom at the altar, fleeing the most anticipated wedding of 1958. With nowhere else to turn, she finds herself in the small town of...

Wednesday, 16 February 2022
Mothertongues is a collaborative endeavour by Ceridwen Dovey and Eliza Bell that captures two essential concepts that are crucial yet often undervalued in our lives: motherhood and art-making. Drawing from...

Wednesday, 16 February 2022
Many stories are woven into one in Zoë Coyle’s anticipated debut novel Where the Light Gets In. Delphi, a free-spirited artist with a poet’s soul, comes from a family broken...

Tuesday, 8 February 2022
Mirandi Riwoe’s The Burnished Sun comprises a series of short stories sandwiched between two novellas, opening with ‘Annah the Javanese’ and closing with Riwoe’s award-winning ‘The Fish Girl’. Despite the...

Tuesday, 8 February 2022
Some books come with their own stories, and The Good Mother certainly does: Rae Cairns self-published this book first and gained enough notoriety with reviews and a Ned Kelly Award...

Tuesday, 8 February 2022
Governments of all persuasions have had a prickly relationship with the ABC. Some more than others. Labor governments have gritted their teeth and put up with unflattering reporting; Liberal governments...

Wednesday, 2 February 2022
Auē is a heartbreaking yet gripping drama about a family living amid intergenerational domestic violence and gang warfare on New Zealand’s South Island. At its heart, the book is the...

Tuesday, 1 February 2022
There’s something special about reading the story of a person who has found their true vocation—their passion jumps through the page and grabs you. Dr Stefanie Green is a doctor...

Thursday, 27 January 2022
Since the late 90s Sean Williams has been a prolific contributor to Australian speculative fiction; he’s written award-winning science fiction, post-collapse and young adult books. Part retrospective, part confession, Uncanny...

Tuesday, 25 January 2022
Five-year-old Bessie is removed from an extended stay at the Protestant Orphan School and returned home to her unstable mother: a woman she doesn’t remember and who is anything but...

Tuesday, 25 January 2022
The heart of Australiana is an examination of settler Australia, disrupting the conception of town and rural settings so common in the nation's literary imagination. First Nations writers have significantly...

Tuesday, 18 January 2022
Remember Me begins with a call in the middle of the night, when illustrator Emily is awakened in her London flat. Her father’s health is failing and Emily is the...

Tuesday, 18 January 2022
Alice returns to the fictional Australian city of Fraser after 16 years away. The city itself has changed—and continues to change—beyond recognition. Streets, houses and other buildings literally shift and...

Tuesday, 11 January 2022
Lauren Burns received a fork inscribed with the word ‘agitator’ as a present from her boyfriend while trekking through the extreme wilderness of Utah. Burns’s journey as a donor-conceived person...