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Australian books

May 2024

  • Safe Haven by Shankari Chandran

    Australian book reviews
    Safe Haven by Shankari Chandran review – a damning indictment of Australia’s refugee policy

  • Author Thomas Mayo holds a copy of his book, The Voice to Parliament Handbook

    Australian arts in focus
    Guide to Indigenous voice to parliament wins Abia book of the year

  • Family following coffin from church<br>M41D2P Family following coffin from church

    I went to the funerals of complete strangers. This is what I learned about the living

    Ruby Todd
  • State Library of NSW

    Australian literature has long been ‘hijacked by activists’. This has made it richer. Let’s not go backwards

    Sarah Ayoub

  • Storms, frogs and a kiss: how a group of scientists designed a message from humanity to aliens

  • Bookmark this
    ‘My favourite book of the year so far’: the best Australian books out in May

  • Australian book reviews
    Excitable Boy by Dominic Gordon review – punchy tales of masculinity, sex and violence

  • Australian arts in focus
    ‘Perhaps the great Australian novel’: Alexis Wright wins Stella prize for second time with Praiseworthy

April 2024

  • Author Siang Lu ahead of the publication of his new book Ghost Cities. Brisbane. Australia

    Audacious, stimulating and ‘utterly bonkers’: Siang Lu, the thrilling new face of Australian literature

  • Composite for The Pyramid of Needs by Ernest Price

    Australian book reviews
    The Pyramid of Needs by Ernest Price review – a wickedly funny take on wellness

  • Liam Pieper’s Appreciation and Bri Lee’s The Work

    Critics, cancellation and cleanskin wine: the Australian novels satirising the art world

  • Bruce Pascoe

    Three things
    Three things with Bruce Pascoe: ‘My teeth were all over the place, like a dropped Mahjong set’

  • Australian book reviews
    Thunderhead by Miranda Darling review – pacy Sydney thriller hits a superficial note

  • Australian book reviews
    The Work by Bri Lee review – satirical art world romp tries to tick too many boxes

  • For 30 years I saw my kidnapping as character-building – until I finally faced what happened to me

    Anna Broinowski

  • ‘You’re covered in wrinkles. You’re no longer interesting’: the books making ageing women visible

  • ‘The crime writer crime writers read’: Garry Disher, author of 60 books and finding fame in his 70s

  • Australian book reviews
    How to Knit a Human by Anna Jacobson review – a remarkable memoir of psychosis

  • Bookmark this
    ‘Candid’, ‘remarkable’, ‘beguiling’: the best Australian books out in April

  • Bri Lee: ‘Writing about getting molested is why I now enjoy artistic freedom. That’s cooked’

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