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October Book Buzz: Andrew Pippos, Kiran Desai, Olga Ravn & More
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Oct 30, 202554:06pending
We reveal the books that didn’t quite make the Top 100
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Oct 23, 202554:36pending
Brisbane Writers Festival: Eric Puchner, Toni Jordan, Patrick Holland, Zeynab Ga...
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Oct 16, 202554:35pending
Four new memoirs: Mandy Sayer/Elizabeth Gilbert/Arundhati Roy/S. Shakthidharan
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Oct 9, 202553:57pending
Top Poems of the 21st Century
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Oct 2, 202554:06pending
Patricia Lockwood's auto-fiction-ish Will There Ever Be Another You + The Buffal...
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Sep 25, 202554:35pending
Ian McEwan's What We Can Know + new work from Olga Tokarczuk and Miranda Darling
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Sep 18, 202554:36pending
Still Turning Heads at 250: Jane Austen’s Enduring Charm
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Sep 11, 202554:30pending
Superstar children's author Andy Griffiths reviews! Plus, Omar Musa's Fierceland...
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Sep 4, 202554:06pending
Greyhounds, dark academia and an Amish community in new fiction by Toni Jordan,...
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Aug 28, 202554:35pending
A simmering summer in Greece, rare snails, dystopia with a twist: new fiction by...
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Aug 21, 202554:37pending
AI in America, a kidnapping in Corsica, the transformative power of boxing: book...
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Aug 14, 202554:36pending
People turning into trees, mythical rivers rising...new novels by Rhett Davis an...
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Aug 7, 202559:25pending
2025 Miles Franklin Literary Award assessed
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Jul 31, 202554:06pending
Parties, scandals, sex, love: new novels by Nell Zink, Amy Bloom and the controv...
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Jul 24, 202554:06pending
New Australian crime + hungry ghosts and a great white whale
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Jul 17, 202559:00pending
Sydney Writer's Festival: The State of the Art of the Novel
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Jul 10, 202554:06pending
Mystery in new fiction from Ben Okri, Sameer Pandya and Anjet Daanje
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Jul 3, 202554:06pending
Sweat, sport and sharp Australian satire; And the 2025 International Booker Priz...
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Jun 26, 202554:06pending
Popular fiction across space and time, and queer bush doof thriller in Thomas Vo...
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Jun 19, 202554:05pending
Reading James Joyce's Ulysses for Bloomsday (and new fiction galore)
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Jun 12, 20251:00:00pending
New fiction from Gail Jones, S A Cosby and Seán Hewitt
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Jun 5, 202554:06pending
A vibrant gay coming-of-age story set in Geraldton
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May 29, 202554:04pending
Sydney Writers' Festival: Top 100 Books launched with Alan Hollinghurst, Catheri...
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May 23, 202555:06pending
On stage at Melbourne Writers' Festival with Hannah Kent and Beejay Silcox
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May 15, 202554:06pending
A woman falls through the cracks of time in the first of Solvej Balle's seven-no...
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May 8, 202554:04pending
A beach holiday told four ways in Luke Horton's Time Together
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May 1, 202554:04pending
James Bradley's Landfall reveals a flooded, baked and dilapidated city
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Apr 24, 202554:06pending
The Bookshelf Easter Special: Irish writer Niall Williams
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Apr 18, 202554:00pending
A love triangle set against the beauty of Montana in Eric Puchner's Dream State
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Apr 17, 202554:07pending
Folk horror, dreams under surveillance, lonely in Guatemala
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Apr 10, 20251:13:09pending
Andrea Goldsmith's The Buried Life - and a train steaming towards disaster . . .
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Apr 3, 202554:06pending
Curtis Sittenfeld's Show Don't Tell + Tim Rogers and Zan Rowe on two new debuts
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Mar 27, 202554:36pending
This week’s novels takes us to Zanzibar, Budapest and Renaissance Florence
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Mar 20, 202554:05pending
On stage at Adelaide Writers' Week with Niall Williams, Charlotte Mendelson and...
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Mar 13, 202554:06pending
Australian bestseller Diana Reid returns with Signs of Damage
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Mar 6, 202554:06pending
Irish writer Colum McCann’s Twist dives deep under the ocean and takes on a char...
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Feb 27, 202554:03pending
Mothers and Sons...is the story as fraught as the title suggests?
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Feb 20, 202553:46pending
Alaska, folktales, mothers and daughters
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Feb 13, 202554:06pending
A story of yearning, belonging, secrets and identity from Native America
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Feb 6, 202557:06pending
Sweden, France, New Zealand: books from around the world
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Jan 30, 202554:06pending
A medical crisis brings one man close to love, art, and beauty
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Jan 23, 202554:06pending
Summer Reading: Quick, give me a recommendation!
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Jan 17, 202554:06pending
Summer Reading from Australia and the World
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Jan 10, 202554:06pending
Summer Reading: Fiction for a new year
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Jan 3, 202554:06pending
Summer Reading: Books to get your teeth into
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Dec 27, 202454:06pending
Summer Reading: What did you miss?
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Dec 20, 202454:06pending
Crime fiction and why we keep coming back: The repeat protagonist
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Dec 13, 202454:05pending
Best Books of 2024
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Dec 6, 202454:06pending
The much anticipated new novel by Haruki Murakami, and plenty more...
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Nov 29, 202454:06pending
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