Emily Maguire turns to historical fiction to tell the story of a young ninth-century woman whose quest for knowledge will not ...

Rodney Hall has won the Miles Franklin Award twice; his new novel is a panoramic alternative history of the twentieth century ...

The author of Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone returns with another witty homage to the Golden Age of crime fiction.

Novelist Amitav Ghosh turns to non-fiction to chart the greed and racism at the heart of British and American opium sales to ...

Award-winning novelist Amitav Ghosh turns to non-fiction to chart the greed and racism at the heart of British and American opium sales to China. In researching his Ibis Trilogy novels – Sea of ...

Eric Beecher’s vital new book provides a history of world journalism, good and bad, with a pessimistic view of the future.