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His first novel has just won a prestigious Nebula Award; now John Wiswell puts his humorous and humanist spin on the labours of Heracles.
British historian Anne Sebba’s account of the Nazi death camp describes the dissonance of beautiful music in a place of ...
The French Open may be over for another year, but Roland-Garros will always belong to Rafael Nadal, its all-time champion.
This diverse anthology challenges stereotypes by bringing together Autistic women and gender-diverse writers to share their experiences. In their introduction to Someone Like Me, editors Clem Bastow ...
The dystopian new novel from the author of Mammoth imagines a shocking, and ongoing, tragedy to explore grief, community, and anger.. Chris Flynn opens his new novel Orpheus Nine with a staggering, ...
In her new novel, Panic, Catherine Jinks provides a timely take on online mobs, conspiracy theorists, and sovereign citizens. Bronte is a young woman who, along with most of her generation, records ...
Helen Garner’s account of a single season of her grandson’s AFL team is about more than football. Helen Garner may have begun her career as a novelist, but she has long been admired for her ...
TIM WINTON Juice. Reviewed by Robert Goodman. The opening of Tim Winton’s new novel Juice cannot help but put readers in mind of Cormac McCarthy’s seminal work The Road.A man, possibly an ex-soldier, ...
Iain Ryan’s latest novel continues his fascination with 1980s Queensland and the tentacles of corruption that captured police and politicians. The Gold Coast, 1982: Queensland is deep in recession and ...
Argentinian writer Marina Yuszczuk puts her twist on the vampire novel in Thirst, set amid Buenos Aires’ oldest cemetery. There’s something defiant about how she doesn’t look away when I fix my eyes ...
Tim Winton’s new novel dives into a post-climate-change world where violence seems the only solution. The opening of Tim Winton’s new novel Juice cannot help but put readers in mind of Cormac McCarthy ...
In 1945, 17-year-old Sia (Anastasia) is given four mátia by Eleftheria, the young village woman who is known for her gift for prophecy. One of these, Eleftheria tells her, is for herself, the others ...