Lullaby

French-Moroccan writer Leïla Slimani’s Prix Goncourt prize-winning novel, Chanson Douce, published as Lullaby, lands its biggest punch on the first page.

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Freedom to libel?

This collection of essays concerns one of the first cases of libel to rock the colony of NSW. R v Campbell [1817] was brought by…

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Zero hour

Harry S. Dent, Jr. is a Harvard-educated demographer and economic forecaster known for his bestselling books The Great Boom Ahead, The Sale of a Lifetime,…

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Factfulness

When Microsoft chief Bill Gates says a book is the most important he has ever read, it’s time to take notice. And, fortunately, Factfulness is…

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Consent

Leo Benedictus takes the seemingly harmless pastime of people-watching to a new level in Consent. The beguiling first-person narrative begins with a tone of innocence,…

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The pastor and the painter

News Corp journalist Cindy Wockner moved to Bali soon after Australians started making news there with the 2002 bombings. Then Schapelle Corby was arrested in…

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Between us

Set in Darwin, this is a story about the relationship between teenagers Jono and Ana. Jono is a Vietnamese Australian who has recovered from depression…

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The suitcase baby

A suitcase washed up on the shores of Mosman in Sydney in 1923. Two women with complicated, mysterious and impoverished pasts. A dead baby and…

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This time: Australia’s Republican past and future

This is a confronting read for Australians who are ambivalent about their country becoming a republic, for two reasons. The first is its demonstration that ambivalence…

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