New Australian Books
Book review: Why We Are Here, Briohny Doyle
A hilarious and devastating window into the transformative impacts of love and grief.
Book review: Would That Be Funny?, Lorin Clarke
Lorin Clarke reveals much about her brilliant father, warts and all, with honesty and wit.
Book review: But the Girl, Jessica Zhan Mei Yu
This delightful debut is a literary coming-of-age story.
Book review: Me, Her, Us, Yen-Rong Wong
A bristling collection about race, sex, familial expectation and identity from a writer with lived experience.
Book review: Body Friend, Katherine Brabon
A tenderly written exploration of the body through the lens of living with chronic illness.
Book review: Chinese Fish, Grace Yee
A multi-voiced collection of poetry that canvasses a family's experiences of racism in New Zealand from the 1960s to the…
Book review: A Light in the Dark, Allee Richards
An examination of the aftershocks of power and its abuse.
Book review: The Sitter, Angela O’Keeffe
A multilayered novel about the wife of French artist Paul Cezanne becomes a dual portrait of two women a century…
Book review: The Empty Honour Board, Martin Flanagan
A memoir about boarding school days and the abuse that occurred there, forever shadowing Flanagan's life.
Book review: West Girls, Laura Elizabeth Woollett
Sharp and clever, West Girls dives into the murky world of modelling.