Set in Venice in 1899, John Banville’s new novel blends suspense and the gothic as it skewers literary pretension.

Australia’s universities are in crisis; in Broken Graeme Turner provides a diagnosis and a proposal for reform.

The bestselling author of The Museum of Modern Love turns to historical fiction in her new novel set in convict-era Van ...

Senior Constable Paul Hirschhausen and his small community are once again put to the test in the fifth of this outstanding rural noir series.

Jennette McCurdy was a child star, but behind the scenes her mother’s ambition manifested in control and abuse.

Chloe Dalton’s memoir of raising an orphaned hare in the English countryside is both beautiful and unsentimental. Chloe Dalton never expected to raise a hare. In her professional life as a foreign ...

Spies, magic, intrigue, and the human cost of an expanding empire all feature in Australian author Alina Bellchambers’ debut fantasy. Growing up on the run from mysterious criminals with her mother, ...

This latest offering of Australian rural noir contrasts urban and small-town sensibilities from the perspective of a child protection officer. Readers of Crows Nest will not be surprised to learn that ...

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 ...

The new novel from the author of Dyschronia and The Airways is climate fiction focussed on human adaptability. There is plenty going on in Australia at the moment that reflects the impacts of climate ...

Longlisted for the 2025 ARA Historical Novel Prize, Matthew Hooton’s novel traces memories of Henry Ford’s experimental settlement in Brazil. I know my grandson, Nicholas, thinks of my personal ...