Set in a future Earth, the first instalment of Veronica Roth’s new science-fiction series imagines the consequences of alien ...

Christine Balint’s fourth novel takes inspiration from the courage of a teenage girl in a real-life criminal case in ...

Clara Brack finds her own voice in exploring the differences between parents' lives as artists and their lives as parents.

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How will the future judge us? Ian McEwan’s new novel looks back at our world from the perspective of 2119. The first half of What We Can Know is set in 2119, a time in which Britain is a series of ...

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 ...

Actor and Australian icon Bryan Brown brings his laconic style to his first full-length crime novel. The Drowning is set on the northern beaches of New South Wales in a small town that is mostly ...

Tara June Winch’s multi-award-winning novel is told in three voices, one of which takes the form of a dictionary. Yield, bend the feet, tread, as in walking, also long, tall – baayanha. Yield itself ...

A charismatic criminal, corrupt cops, and the brutality of Grafton Gaol – the story of Kevin John Simmonds is more than compelling true crime. In 1959 most people in Australia would have known the ...

Diana Reid’s debut novel poses some philosophical dilemmas. University campus culture was fresh for Diana Reid when she began writing Love & Virtue. She had recently graduated from The University of ...

Becky Chambers assembles an intriguing cast of species in a spacecraft on a mission into deep space. But Chambers’s world-building is far more diverse, and the Wayfarer’s crew includes humans, a ...

Melbourne author Fiona Hardy has broken very different ground with her crime fiction debut Unbury the Dead. Hardy is well-known in crime fiction circles as a Melbourne bookseller, crime fiction ...