The second novel from Andrew Pippos draws inspiration from the epics of ancient Greece as its characters navigate a fraught ...

Set in Venice in 1899, John Banville’s new novel blends suspense and the gothic as it skewers literary pretension.

Australia’s universities are in crisis; in Broken Graeme Turner provides a diagnosis and a proposal for reform.

Senior Constable Paul Hirschhausen and his small community are once again put to the test in the fifth of this outstanding rural noir series. Paul Hirsch is out and about on his huge, drought-ridden ...

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The bestselling author of The Museum of Modern Love turns to historical fiction in her new novel set in convict-era Van Dieman’s Land.

Becky Chambers assembles an intriguing cast of species in a spacecraft on a mission into deep space. But Chambers’s world-building is far more diverse, and the Wayfarer’s crew includes humans, a ...

Ghost Species, James Bradley’s terrifyingly relevant seventh novel, is On the Beach for a globally warmed generation. Its proposed roadmap of where humankind’s false belief we’re in control will lead ...

Chloe Dalton’s memoir of raising an orphaned hare in the English countryside is both beautiful and unsentimental. Chloe Dalton never expected to raise a hare. In her professional life as a foreign ...

Spies, magic, intrigue, and the human cost of an expanding empire all feature in Australian author Alina Bellchambers’ debut fantasy. Growing up on the run from mysterious criminals with her mother, ...

Tara June Winch’s multi-award-winning novel is told in three voices, one of which takes the form of a dictionary. Yield, bend the feet, tread, as in walking, also long, tall – baayanha. Yield itself ...