7+ hour, 6+ min ago   (121+ words) This week's fiction reviews have an unintended theme: a "how to" list for everything from marriage to goblins. Non-fiction titles this week, meanwhile, range from art to politics and wisdom. A Sociopath's Guide to a Successful MarriageM. K. OliverHemlock Press, $32.99 How…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago   (411+ words) February 4, 2026 " 4:00pm All Tess has ever wanted to be is a writer. Fuelled by her mother, whose own literary ambitions didn't eventuate, Tess grows up protected by her mother from friendships that she feels won't help her daughter become a literary…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago   (432+ words) February 4, 2026 " 1:56pm A rebel literary festival created in direct response to the cancellation of Adelaide Writers" Week will feature the two women at the centre of the major event"s implosion. At the one-off new festival, cheekily titled Constellations: Not Writers…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (494+ words) January 28, 2026 " 5:30am Someone should write a piece about the role of the outdoor dunny in Australian literature. What? No one else wants to do it? Oh well, it better be me. After all, there's hardly a great Australian book that doesn't…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (204+ words) The author, who has just turned 80, has written a poignant, semi-autobiographical novel exploring love, memory and ageing. January 21, 2026 " 3:00pm A Belgian interviewer was blunt: "So, Mr Barnes, you are now 76 and you will never win a Nobel Prize because you are…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (298+ words) January 21, 2026 " 2:01pm This British crime thriller starts with Die Hard vibes but, like the armed criminals who take over the London office of a pension fund manager in the opening sequence, it moves in decisive and unexpected ways. Emotionally taut and…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (436+ words) January 21, 2026 " 12:00pm Writer Suzie Miller's dad was meant to be on the West Gate Bridge the day it collapsed in 1970. "There was another man there with exactly the same name, so we actually got a call saying that it was my…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (979+ words) January 10, 2026 " 5:40am If you were in the market for niche curses, one of the more potent options, as The New York Times once joked, would be, "May you be profiled by Patrick Radden Keefe. Keefe has made a career of examining…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (1119+ words) Homosexuality was taboo when Danish Sheikh was growing up in India. At this year's Midsumma Festival, he explores what happened next. The list of lawyers-cum-novelists runs the gamut from Franz Kafka to John Grisham and Elizabeth Strout, but the pipeline…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (363+ words) January 7, 2026 " 12:00pm For the longest time the book was on a pedestal framed by human memory. Lee, at the age of 23, went to Manhattan, and she also worked assiduously on the vast amount of research necessary for her soul brother Truman…...