Last updated: November 11, 2016

McGuire joins writers festival

McGuire joins writers festival
Stephen Romei
Melbourne journalist and author Michaela McGuire has been appointed artistic director of the Sydney Writers Festival.

Putting name to familiar monster

Putting name to familiar monster
David Sanderson
Biographer believes he has uncovered the historical figure who was the model for Robert Louis Stevenson’s Mr Hyde.

Big-picture view of Keating

Big-picture view of Keating
Mark Coultan
A quarter of a century since he became prime minister, it’s time for a fresh look at Paul Keating, says Troy Bramston.

Witty romp through history

Witty romp through history
Tom Gilling
In True Girt, David Hunt continues the entertaining journey he began in Girt a couple of years ago.

Winner in crime fiction stakes

Winner in crime fiction stakes
STEPHEN ROMEI
The latest novel by Saul Black, otherwise known as Glen Duncan, is a page-turning thriller about serial killers.

Genesis of the jihadi mindset

Genesis of the jihadi mindset
Paul Monk
Robert Manne’s new book on Islamic State glosses over a fundamental problem with the Muslim religion.

Australian poetry

Australian poetry
Peter Keneally
Anthony Lawrence is the kind of poet whose reputation precedes him. Argumentative, romantic, dissolute perhaps.

Witty romp through history

Witty romp through history
Tom Gilling
In True Girt, David Hunt continues the entertaining journey he began in Girt a couple of years ago.

Masters of their fields

Masters of their fields
Catherine McGregor
A famous photograph of one of cricket’s greatest stars is the starting point for Gideon Haigh’s latest book.

Bolshoi’s steps and stumbles

Bolshoi’s steps and stumbles
Debra Craine
The Bolshoi is perceived as a snakepit of intrigue and corruption, and a new book does little to dispel that idea.

Fragments of other worlds

Fragments of other worlds
Sam Cooney
Michelle Cahill and Laura Elizabeth Woollett explore the short story with varied results.

Swyft solution to superpowers

Swyft solution to superpowers
Alan Gold
John M. Green’s latest novel marks him as a master of prescience.

A life in pieces

A life in pieces
Stephanie Bishop
Elena Ferrante may be invisible but the nonfictional pieces in this book suggest her writing is deeply physical.

Keeping veil securely fastened

Keeping veil securely fastened
Stephen Romei
The book is everything, argues Elena Ferrante, all the rest is distraction.

Choice riffles through lives

Khaled Hosseini
Ella Delany
KHALED Hosseini's new novel, And the Mountains Echoed, skilfully investigates the ways in which our identities are shaped by decisions past and present.

Lost Cities discovered again

Lost Cities discovered again
Graham Lloyd
A four-year journey around Australia to seek out and capture often little known but enchanting places | MORE STUNNING PICTURES

Absent Wright taken to task

Absent Wright taken to task
Felicity Plunkett
Georgina Arnott’s biography of an ‘‘unknown’’ Judith Wright crafts a thesis to frame the portrait she presents.

Pointless butchery still stirs

Pointless butchery still stirs
Ross Fitzgerald
Passchendaele has come to epitomise large-scale butchery, even by the standards of the Great War.

How Islam confounds the West

How Islam confounds the West
Miriam Cosic
Shadi Hamid holds all our assumptions of Islam firmly in hand without losing track of any of them.

Vatican intrigues

Vatican intrigues
Malcolm Forbes
As a brotherhood of 118 holy men meets in secret to elect a new pope, foul play and bitter power struggles unfold.
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