Brian Stoddart’s multi-faceted account of a small island’s cricket history is a tribute to a time when it was the powerhouse of the game.

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.

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Spies, magic, intrigue, and the human cost of an expanding empire all feature in Australian author Alina Bellchambers’ debut fantasy. Growing up on the run from mysterious criminals with her mother, ...

This latest offering of Australian rural noir contrasts urban and small-town sensibilities from the perspective of a child protection officer. Readers of Crows Nest will not be surprised to learn that ...

A finalist in the Ngaio Awards for Best First Crime Novel, Paper Cage is the story of a divided community and a string of missing children. There’s not much that happens in Masterton that Lo Henry ...

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 ...

Tim Winton’s new novel dives into a post-climate-change world where violence seems the only solution. The opening of Tim Winton’s new novel Juice cannot help but put readers in mind of Cormac McCarthy ...