Barry Nicholls turns in a masterly review of the 1972 Ashes series, arguing that Australia’s tour of England reflected ...

Set in Singapore, Jared Poon’s first novel is fantasy fiction that asks whether our brains only register what we want to see ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Human history has seen many civilisations rise and fall. Luke Kemp contemplates the fate of ours in Goliath’s Curse. This is a monumental work of scholarship that raises fundamental questions about ...

The lyrical second novel from the author of The Burial criss-crosses through time following one girl’s parallel lives. Bird is the pensive, defiant 14-year-old protagonist of Courtney Collins’ new ...

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 ...

A finalist in the Ngaio Awards for Best First Crime Novel, Paper Cage is the story of a divided community and a string of missing children. There’s not much that happens in Masterton that Lo Henry ...

In Adrian Hyland’s latest crime novel, Jesse Redpath is back, stationed in a new town during a time of stormy weather. The much anticipated follow-up to Canticle Creek, The Wiregrass is set in the ...

Michael Warner doesn’t hold back in this examination of the scandals that have beset the AFL over the past two decades. In professional sport teams compete not only with each other on the field, but ...