Winner of a Queensland Literary Award, Steve MinOn’s debut novel charts the lives – and afterlives – of a family of Chinese ...

Laurie Woolever – cook, writer, and fixer for chef Anthony Bourdain – enjoyed the glamour of a celebrity lifestyle. But it ...

Emily Tesh’s magical fantasy The Incandescent is as much about the art of teaching as it is about dealing with demons.

This conclusion to Phil Craig’s Finest Hour trilogy shows how, far from marking an end to war and suffering, 1945 created more of it. The world is imperfect, the relationships between and within ...

This latest offering of Australian rural noir contrasts urban and small-town sensibilities from the perspective of a child protection officer. Readers of Crows Nest will not be surprised to learn that ...

Actor and Australian icon Bryan Brown brings his laconic style to his first full-length crime novel. The Drowning is set on the northern beaches of New South Wales in a small town that is mostly ...

Jen Beagin’s Big Swiss is a social satire with a moral dilemma at its heart. It can also make you laugh out loud. Forty-five-year-old Greta is an audio transcriptionist for a sex therapist called Om ...

These two memoirs of life in remote parts of Australia reveal the challenges of isolation. By the time Easter approached… I was feeling quite desperate: I had no company of my own age, I had an ...

The new novel from the former head of MI5 is a page-turner despite the plot holes. First, it was a Bulgarian flag for Harry’s young son, to impress his school friends. Then it was some pretty earrings ...

In KA Linde’s latest fantasy series, humans and monsters live together under a tenuous peace treaty in an alternate New York. Kierse’s latest contract – to break into some rich guy’s house and steal a ...

David Dufty’s new book tells the story of the men who brought Ned Kelly to justice. Ned Kelly is a topic as controversial as the Eureka Stockade, a narrative which divides, and is framed as rebellion ...