Last updated: October 2, 2016

Stone steps to necessary angel

Stone steps to necessary angel
Gregory Day
It seems Wallace Stevens did most of his writing while walking to and from his job as an insurance executive.

Caught up in fairies and faith

Caught up in fairies and faith
Diane Stubbings
In The Good People, Hannah Kent takes us to a time and place where Christianity and paganism overlap.

Fixated on women and wealth

Fixated on women and wealth
David Malouf
Christina Stead’s darkest masterpiece, A Little Tea, a Little Chat, explores seduction and swindling.

Pop goes the bromance

Pop goes the bromance
Iain Shedden
The Go-Betweens’ reputation as commercial underachievers is a recurring subject in Robert Forster’s Grant and I.

Different kind of fairytale

Different kind of fairytale
STEPHEN ROMEI
Hannah Kent’s second novel, The Good People, is even better than her impressive debut, Burial Rites.

Different kind of fairytale

Different kind of fairytale
STEPHEN ROMEI
Hannah Kent’s second novel, The Good People, is even better than her impressive debut, Burial Rites.

Romance gets sentimental

Romance gets sentimental
Louise Swinn
The author of The Rosie Project writes fiction that is enormously popular, and he’s not messing with the formula.

An editor’s rebel yell

An editor’s rebel yell
Nicolas Rothwell
Chris Mitchell’s memoir is full of episodes in which he drinks politicians under the table while ransacking their minds.

Priestess of the overshare

Priestess of the overshare
Camilla Long
American comedian Amy Schumer’s memoir is filled with explicit horrors and sub-feminist diarrhoea.

A Dixie sailor in Melbourne

A Dixie sailor in Melbourne
TESSA AKERMAN
A new acquisition reveals a Confederate ship’s journey to Australian shores.

In from the cold

In from the cold
Iain Shedden
Jimmy Barnes’s newly released autobiography lays bare an unenviable childhood.

Monkey business

Monkey business
JENNIFER MALONEY
Meet the primate who outsells JRR Tolkien.

Winton reveals gun obsession

Winton reveals gun obsession
Stephen Romei
Tim Winton is one of Australia’s best-selling novelists, but he is more nervous about his new book than ever.­

Tim Winton laid bare

Tim Winton laid bare
Stephen Romei
The award-winning Australian author has written his most personal book yet.

Anzac narrator rivalled Bean

Anzac narrator rivalled Bean
Mark Dapin
Australia’s official war correspondent had nothing but praise for the much overlooked journalist Phillip Schuler.

Moral tussles in a Jewish clan

Moral tussles in a Jewish clan
Don Anderson
This novel takes its title and its dramatic and moral crux from the Old Testament story of Abraham and Isaac.

Groundbreaking chemical cure

Groundbreaking chemical cure
Derek Parker
John Cade’s time as a prisoner-of-war at Changi set him thinking in a different way about mental illness.

Be beastly to feral moggies

Be beastly to feral moggies
Andrew Fuhrmann
According to the authors of Cat Wars, there’s only one way to treat our wayward feline friends.

War fugitive and mission girl

War fugitive and mission girl
Louise Swinn
Following a 1944 POW breakout, Hiroshi survives on the generosity of an Aboriginal family.

Acute artistic sense of place

Acute artistic sense of place
Patricia Anderson
At the heart of this hallucinatory narrative is Peregrine, a self-important artist whose brush comes before family.
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