Award-winning short story writer Melissa Manning’s novel explores whether first love can survive the challenges of adulthood.

Max Easton’s new novel asks: if an underground punk band plays a secret gig to 50 people in a squat, do they still make a sound? Max Easton’s lyrically titled third novel Now, Autonomy continues his ...

Christine Balint’s fourth novel takes inspiration from the courage of a teenage girl in a real-life criminal case in 18th-century Italy. ‘It takes seven women to make a single witness.’ Old Venetian ...

The young Swiss novelist explores the lives of a Hungarian family across the twentieth century – and has become an ...

Winner of a Tasmanian Literary Award, Johanna Bell’s novel is set in the near future and tallies Australia’s vanishing species. It is tempting to describe Johanna Bell’s new novel Department of the ...

Tim Ayliffe’s new thriller Dark Desert Road delivers claustrophic tension as twin sisters navigate extremists in the outback. The prologue to Tim Ayliffe’s Dark Desert Road begins with a woman trapped ...

Emma Cline’s new novel recounts the story of an older man confronting dementia who has the means to decide when his life ends ...

Drummer Nicko McBrain recounts his rock 'n roll life with Iron Maiden, and the changes in the music industry over the years.

Author DA Fletcher has used her real-life experience of Australian politics to craft an unsettling thriller. It would be reassuring to think DA Fletcher doesn’t know much about the world of Australian ...

Magied’s first novel for adults is more than just an immersive account of life on a collapsing oil rig. At Sea is a difficult ...

In telling the stories of three sisters in Cairo, Tess Woods delivers an intimate glimpse into the diverse lives of Egyptian women. Australian novelist Tess Woods writes emotionally rich contemporary ...