The US author said she wrote the book to explore questions of memory and complicity.

Puns work by creating collusion between coiner and decoder, forging a gnostic circle of sorts. This same transference is enacted in our brains as well, according to new research.

There has been a weekly book market at Fed Square for 14 years, but it looks as if the final instalment is approaching.

It's said the Camino de Santiago de Compostela, the famous pilgrims' walk through France and Spain, changes its wayfarers irrevocably.

Maja Lunde's tripartite novel, which blends historical fiction, a contemporary lens and dark dystopia to create an intimate domestic fiction with sweeping themes.

Combining high-octane action, black comedy, gratuitous, almost camp brutality, and a feminist premise, Vengeance is Mine ... does feel pulpy and Tarantino-like.

Lisbeth Salander and Mikhail Blomkvist return in the second book penned by David Lagercrantz, but purists will wish they hadn't.

The real-life twins in her novel lived into their 50s, and Juliet Butler's achievement is to capture all they survived

Joe Gorman's book is one of the best and most important written on Australian sport. It is not just about soccer, but how mainstream Australia turned its back on multiculturalism.

As in the Miles Franklin-winning Questions of Travel, Michelle de Kretser deploys her caustic wit and sharp social observation mercilessly in her new novel. Her targets are big and small, soft and hard.

The Secrets She Keeps is an elegantly constructed domestic noir about envy, marriage and what lies beneath.

Richard Flanagan could have chosen a safe option to follow up his 2014 Booker win – but he hasn’t.

Robert Drewe has more fun in Whipbird than some of the guests at the family reunion that is at its core.

In many ways, Benjamin Law's Moral Panic 101 is an examination of the way the media portrays controversial issues.

What makes the story of Don Farrands' grandfather so remarkable is what comes after his terrible experiences in World War I.

There are calls for a Booker Brexit. But oddly enough, the protesters are not fuming insular Brits, but American readers.

In What Happened, Hillary Clinton reveals a longing to be liked, which is both touching and mawkish. She has long veered between being the most popular woman in America, and vilified.

Julian Burnside's writing is conversational and has an accessibility that comes of knowing the law – his subject – so thoroughly.

To what extent did B. A. Santamaria base his Movement on the organised approach of his foes, the communists.

Previously the prize was restricted it to writers from Britain, Ireland, Zimbabwe and the Commonwealth.

The tongue-twisting label LGBTQIA doesn't satisfy everybody's wishes as to how they might be included and described.

Almost 200 years after his death, Joseph Banks' ambition to publish a colour anthology of the multitude of plants encountered on his voyage to Botany Bay with Captain Cook has finally borne fruit.

Kamila Shamsie's story of the Pasha and Lone families in contemporary London, Syria, Pakistan and the US has more than a touch of Romeo and Juliet.

For many years Agnes Nieuwenhuizen was a fierce, committed and brave advocate of young-adult writing.