Lynne Olson documents how, within the horrors of a Nazi concentration camp, the women of the French Resistance continued to ...

The new novel from the author of Dyschronia and The Airways is climate fiction focussed on human adaptability.

Sarah Gilbert’s account of this religious order offers a rare insight into the women who chose to separate themselves from ...

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 ...

Warning: reading this book can get you down if you are a creative in Australia trying to establish or maintain a career. Justin Heazlewood’s brilliant Funemployed is not all happiness and light. But ...

This week we’re delighted to bring you an extract from Julie Janson’s new novel Benevolence. In this vivid and very moving novel, Indigenous author Julie Janson takes us back to the early days of ...

This debut is a sharp plunge into dark water. Bad things happen in Tasmania: from Marcus Clarke to Richard Flanagan and Carmel Bird, our novelists have been delivering stories inspired by the island’s ...

My Heart is a Little Wild Thing, Nigel Featherstone's second novel, is a story of masculinity and modern Australia.

These two memoirs of life in remote parts of Australia reveal the challenges of isolation. By the time Easter approached… I was feeling quite desperate: I had no company of my own age, I had an ...

Iain Ryan’s latest novel continues his fascination with 1980s Queensland and the tentacles of corruption that captured police and politicians.

In his debut collection Born into This, Adam Thompson's vivid stories encompass resistance, revenge, and hard truths.

In Claire Sutherland's debut crime novel, a body is found on an isolated track on the Wimmera Plains, where Mount Arapiles towers over all.