The Survivors

With pedigree as a former news journalist, Jane Harper never buries the lead. Her books, fast becoming the defining novels of a new genre of…

The Godmothers

The ebb and flow of the yarn weaved and spun here by McInerney, one of Australia’s best authors at composing exquisite family dramas, takes us…

This taste for silence

When we stop, reflect and consider human life generally, it resembles a complex tapestry of emotions, experiences, senses and events that take us to the…

The pull of the stars

Publishers and authors are not exempt from the unknowns of 2020. Hotly anticipated new titles were pulled as global distribution chains shut down. What could…

From snow to ash

It’s a brave journalist who – after winning Walkleys for his work – decides to quit his job and throw it all in for five…

Either Side of Midnight

Sam Midford opens the monologue for his weekly current affairs show by shooting himself in the head. It’s this heart-in-your-mouth scene that opens Either Side…

Fallout

Can a single magazine article change international thinking? Can a magazine allow one article to be an entire issue? 

Anxious People

Anxious People is described as “One bank robber. Seven strangers. And a really bad idea”. It is a blunt introduction to our everyday survival and…

The Truth Hurts

Boe. Burma Born. Bright Boy. Brisbane Bred. Buranda Bellringer. Bold Barrister. Brave Book. The Truth Hurts reveals Andrew Boe’s philosophical development as a lawyer and contemporary thinker. …

The Fatal Lure of Politics: The Life and Thought of Vere Gordon Childe

This historian’s radical portrayal showcases the two lives of Vere Gordon Childe – himself a radical archaeologist-Marxist political activist and perhaps one of Australia’s greatest…