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.

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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 ...

A charismatic criminal, corrupt cops, and the brutality of Grafton Gaol – the story of Kevin John Simmonds is more than compelling true crime. In 1959 most people in Australia would have known the ...

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 ...

Diana Reid’s debut novel poses some philosophical dilemmas. University campus culture was fresh for Diana Reid when she began writing Love & Virtue. She had recently graduated from The University of ...

His first novel has just won a prestigious Nebula Award; now John Wiswell puts his humorous and humanist spin on the labours of Heracles. The retelling of tales from Greek mythology is not new – ...