New Australian Books
Book review: The One Thing We've Never Spoken About, Elfy Scott
Complex mental health conditions are explored in this book that melds personal stories with wide-scale investigation.
Book review: Half Deaf, Completely Mad, Tony Cohen and John Olson
The story of destructive genius and its brilliant accompanying soundtrack.
Book review: Sad Girl Novel, Pip Finkemeyer
A fundamentally meta novel that plays with its own understated self-awareness.
Book review: Call me Marlowe, Catherine de Saint Phalle
Among many other things, this novel canvasses love, reconciliation and friendship.
Book review: House of Longing, Tara Calaby
An historical fiction that navigates the world of women in Victorian asylums.
Book review: Blackwater, Jacqueline Ross
A slow build Gothic debut has ties to historical Tasmania.
Book review: The Bookbinder of Jericho, Pip Williams
The companion volume to her earlier best-seller, 'The Dictionary of Lost Words', sees Williams once again enthral with her storytelling.
Book review: Search History, Amy Taylor
The whims and perils of dating in the internet age.
Book review: Fed to Red Birds, Rijn Collins
A novel about the strangeness of beauty and morbidity of obsession.
Book review: Family, edited by Alaina Gougoulis and Ian See
Is blood really thicker than water?