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

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

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

Historian Faith Tibble examines the origin of one of the most famous images in the Christian world and how it changed over the centuries. Almost everyone, whether they are Christian or not, is ...

Professor Raina MacIntyre was a prominent voice during Covid. Now she fears the backlash against vaccination will have devastating effects. We dodged a bullet – or did we? The panic created by ...

Francesca de Tores’ novel is swashbuckling historical fiction, featuring unconventional women, war, and piracy on the high seas. Francesca de Tores makes it clear from the start: Mary Read and Anne ...

Melbourne author Fiona Hardy has broken very different ground with her crime fiction debut Unbury the Dead. Hardy is well-known in crime fiction circles as a Melbourne bookseller, crime fiction ...

Argentinian writer Marina Yuszczuk puts her twist on the vampire novel in Thirst, set amid Buenos Aires’ oldest cemetery. There’s something defiant about how she doesn’t look away when I fix my eyes ...