Alexandria Burnham’s debut historical novel takes inspiration from a real-life convict, mutineer and pirate. They called me ...

Holden Sheppard’s latest novel revisits some old friends in a fresh new story exploring masculinity, identity and friendship.

In searching for the truth about her grandmother, Jane Messer brings together both Jewish and Palestinian histories. Michael Messer was sure his mother never loved him. She had abandoned him twice, ...

Esther Anatolitis reveals just how closely Australia’s constitution ties us to the whims of the English monarch, and makes the case for change. It is a safe bet that, other than constitutional lawyers ...

Barry Nicholls turns in a masterly review of the 1972 Ashes series, arguing that Australia’s tour of England reflected societal change. Test series have an inbuilt structure, and Nicholls builds on ...

This account of ancient rock art in Eurasia, Arabia and the Sahara attempts to discover the beliefs of the people who created it. This is a big, beautiful and fascinating book. It is a weighty tome, ...

A new translation of this German classic tells the story of a Jewish family in Berlin from the nineteenth to the twentieth centuries. In 1932, Gabriele Tergit’s Berlin publisher asked her to write a ...

Ashley Kalagian Blunt continues her exploration of the perils of malicious online communities in Like, Follow, Die.

JP Pomare’s eighth novel explores the intersection of gambling, AI, and politics in a masterful thriller that keeps you ...

Winner of a Tasmanian Literary Award, Johanna Bell’s novel is set in the near future and tallies Australia’s vanishing ...

Bestseller Mary E Pearson’s fantasy duology features faerie pacts, spells, dragons, and a refreshingly drawn central ...

The new novel from the award-winning author of The Sitter brings a book to life – a book that is sentient, observant, and ...