Nadia Wheatley charts what happened to the prisoners after the liberation of Bergen-Belsen, and their impact on events in the ...

Wayne Marshall gives Australia’s famous bush poet an alternative experience of his career-defining trip to Bourke.

Jordan Harper's new novel violently deconstructs the American dream and shows little has changed since James Ellroy's ...

Mark McKenna’s short history is both broad and nuanced, demanding a new understanding of our country’s past. It’s a shame ...

The characters in Kris Kneen’s latest novel free themselves from the constraints of gender, diving into a new world beneath ...

James O’Loghlin wanted to help a dying friend. He ended up running a political campaign to change the law for victims of ...

Set during England’s witch persecutions, Bernice Barry’s novel draws on the magical associations of the hare and tips its hat to Lorna Doone. There are things you’ll be wanting to know and I will tell ...

The new novel from the award-winning author of Shroud brings together sentient animals and a noir detective story.

Writer and editor Jean Bedford died after a long illness on 11 December 2025. She leaves a considerable literary legacy. A passionate advocate for the importance of books and writing across genres, ...

Adam Thompson’s vivid stories encompass resistance, revenge, and hard truths. The 16 stories that comprise Adam Thompson’s debut collection are all set among Tasmania’s Aboriginal community. Many of ...

In the aftermath of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, our need to understand the US feels more immediate than ever. What sort of society is America? Can it, in fact, even be regarded as a ...

Charlotte McConaghy follows up her international bestseller The Last Migration with a story of wolves and the Scottish Highlands. When I was eight, Dad cut me open from throat to stomach. Such a ...