Book review: Safe Haven

Shankari Chandran’s gripping and persuasive novel of asylum seekers, reads like an open wound.

Book review: The Vulnerables

Sigrid Nunez signs a COVID novel that has the same kind of humour, observation and literary references her fans recognise.

Book review: Past Lying

The plot of a dead author’s half-finished manuscript eerily mirrors the real-life disappearance of a young woman. In an Edinburgh lockdown, McDermid’s cold case cop…

Book review: Resurrection Walk

In the latest police-legal procedure combo from Michael Connelly, Lincoln Lawyer Mickey Haller and his half-brother Harry Bosch join forces to free a woman imprisoned…

Book review: Hello Beautiful

Ann Napolitano’s fourth novel is an emotional family saga that promises to stay with you long after you finish reading it

Book review: The Broken Places

Russell Franklin’s book is a poetic and emotional fictional account of Ernest Hemingway’s trans daughter, Gloria.

Book review: The Settlement

An enthralling retelling of the ill-fated Wybalenna settlement, Jock Serong confronts the harsh realities of Australia’s colonial history.

Book review: What about men?

Comedian and commentator Caitlin Moran follows her humorous feminist manifesto with a tongue-in-cheek look at the strange world of men.