Some Tests review: Wayne Macauley's novel is a vivid portrayal of illness today
Though Wayne Macauley's allegorical prowess remains undimmed, his latest is straightforward and direct.
Though Wayne Macauley's allegorical prowess remains undimmed, his latest is straightforward and direct.
According to Jodie Archer and Matthew Jockers, there is an answer to the apparent randomness of major commercial success in popular fiction that emerges when the data is mined by computers.
Cities can provide the perfect atmospheric backdrop to a crime novel, says Booker Prize winner John Banville. Just think of Raymond Chandler's mean streets of Los Angeles.
Writers looking for a quiet, inspirational space are seeking out the worn past.
In the doll-house setting of See What I Have Done, the tension rises with the thermometer. The reader knows blood will flow, but who will crack first?
In telling her father's story, Rebecca Stott also tells her own – what it was like to be a child in such a fundamentalist sect and how it left its mark on her.
White Fur is as much about class difference and privilege as it is about obsessive love. Elise is a streetwise girl from the wrong side of the tracks, and Jamey is a young heir to an East Coast fortune.
A reader needs some compelling reason to remain in the company of an unlikeable narrator. In Andrea's case in All Grown Up, the reason is her family.
The key to parenting, says Helen Hayward, is to accept that family life is infused with "two distinct feelings – love and panic".
Even at their most amplified Joy Williams' stories are more flash fiction or micro-fiction. But all are thought-provoking and most of them very funny.
Stephen Orr's work continues to have a prominent place in the literary mapping and recording of South Australia and Adelaide.
As well as revisiting memorable moments of the tour, Dominic Dromgoole's account explores Hamlet itself in light of particular issues thrown up by the country in question.
All the essayists in this collection acknowledge the crucial importance of the support of their mothers, grandmothers, aunts, sisters and elders in sustaining them.
Do you know your Pogrebin from your Porlock?
Boxes of books are popping up on front lawns, in parks and on streets all over Australia. They're getting communities reading, fostering friendships and even sparking romances.
What's on in the Canberra literary scene, June 24, 2017
Consisting of two sections of a notebook Joan Didion kept in the '70s, South and West provides readers the chance to witness an inimitable writer at work.
Grace Helbig is an internet superstar. She is a doyenne of YouTube, host of a celebrity interview podcast, star of a superhero web series, author of two lifestyle guidebooks and – in one obscure corner of the web – protagonist of pages upon pages of fan-written stories that recast her persona into seemingly endless fictional scenarios.
Lily Woodhouse was astonished by Coonardoo when she read first Katherine Susannah Pritchard's novel.
Pre-war dictionaries lodged data between dastard and date. Their follow-up volumes have conceded whole pages to the plague, listing databanks and data havens, data files and market data.
Gabrielle Williams' fifth novel, "My Life as a Hashtag", serves a cautionary tale, bringing to light the darker aspects of social media.
The turnback of the Tampa marked a sea change in national politics and inspired the writer's new work of fiction.
A tapestry designed and made with the help of 200 refugees tells a different tale to the one we hear.
Ben Hobson throws his hero, 13-year-old Sam, into the nightmarish world of a whaling station where at his father's bidding he has to learn to become a man.
Two books consider issues of being a Catholic today, spirituality, and what that entails.
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