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The Naturalist of Amsterdam. Image is a side on above the bust author's shot of a woman in a green shirt with light red shoulder length hair. smiling, and on the right an orange book cover featuring a sparse tree, two butterflies and a caterpillar.
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Book review: The Naturalist of Amsterdam, Melissa Ashley

Ashley's latest book is an historical fiction set at the turn of the 18th century and featuring unsung women who…

Mia Ferreira

Nov 8, 2023
The conversion. Image is a book cover with two birds in flight seen from underneath on the left, and a black and white author headshot on the right of a woman with black jumper, shoulder length white hair and glasses on her head.
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Book review: The Conversion, Amanda Lohrey

Amanda Lohrey's latest novel speculates on whether a deconsecrated church can become a home.

Ellie Fisher

Nov 8, 2023
Only Sound Remains. Image is a book cover of a black soundwave on a light background and on the right an author's headshot of a man in black T shirt, colourful shirt, glasses, beard and peaked cap.
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Book review: Only Sound Remains, Hossein Asgari

A novel exploring a father-son relationship and Iranian diasporic poetry.

Kylie MIRMOHAMADI

Nov 8, 2023
Green Dot. Image is of a woman from the waist up with short red hair and a red shirt, and on the right a book cover of a black and white illustration of a faceless woman in front of a burning house.
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Book review: Green Dot, Madeleine Gray

This impressive debut explores the complexities of love in the context of an illicit workplace romance.

Nanci Nott

Nov 8, 2023
The In-Between. image is a book cover showing two tiny figures on the horizon beneath the book's title, next to a head and chest shot of the author on the right, a smiling middle-aged man in a black buttoned up shirt, standing in front of foliage.
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Book review: The In-Between, Christos Tsiolkas

Christos Tsiolkas' new novel is a tender and poignant tale about a later-life romance between two men.

Arjun Rajkhowa

Nov 1, 2023
Borderland. Image is two fold - on the left a bald headed Indigenous man in a blue shirt and dark jacket, on the right a book cover with a magpie looming over a young Indigenous boy.
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Book review: Borderland, Graham Akhurst

A coming-of-age tale about a city-born Indigenous teenager.

Jessica Gildersleeve

Oct 24, 2023
Full Coverage. Image is twofold: on the right a book cover with the words Full Coverage in white on a red background over a leather jacket clad guitarist, so all we can see is the musician's torso and hand. On the left is an author head and shoulders shot of a man with a ginger beard, brown and black baseball cap and checkered shirt.
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Book review: Full Coverage, Samuel J Fell

The story of Australian rock journalism is a wild ride of luck, tenacity and incredulity.

Richie Black

Oct 19, 2023
The Pit. Image is a book cover on the left of a remote Australian red dirt setting and a shovel. On the left is the author's image, a head shot of a bald man.
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Book review: The Pit, Peter Papathanasiou

The Pit represents the latest contribution to Australian outback noir.

Erich Mayer

Oct 18, 2023
The Modern. Twofold image shows young woman with long brown hair on the left and a book cover of a woman in a gallery on the right.
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Book review: The Modern, Anna Kate Blair

Set in and around New York's Museum of Modern Art, this debut explores not just art but sexuality, job precarity…

Erin Stewart

Oct 18, 2023
Morgan is My Name. Image is on the left, a woman sitting by the sea, dressed in black and looking moodily off to the side. On the right a book cover of a an illustrated with long hair and a flowing green robe, against a colourful backdrop.
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Book review: Morgan is My Name, Sophie Keetch

This sweeping saga is the first in a trilogy about one of the most compelling villains of Arthurian legend.

Jemimah Brewster

Oct 17, 2023
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