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Little Lies
The salacious debut novel from KATIE MCMAHON, The Mistake, is a tale of two sisters, the secrets hidden under seemingly perfect lives, and the darker side of human nature. MAX LEWIS writes.
It’s only human to make mistakes. Sometimes we don’t think things through enough, or act irrationally when our heart (or something else) calls the shots. Even the littlest of mistakes, the whitest of lies or the most miniscule of errors can snowball into something ...
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Features
RUTH DRUART grew up on the Isle of Wight, moving away at the age of 18. She has lived in Paris since 1993, ...
I am lucky to be able to live in Sydney, a short bus or ferry ride to see one of the most iconic buildings in the ...
One of the most celebrated contemporary fiction authors, KAZUO ISHIGURO has returned with Klara and the Sun, his ...
MADELEINE RYAN’s debut novel, A Room Called Earth, presents the thoughts of a woman remarkably attuned to the ...
Long-time Jack Reacher fan and author HEATHER MARTIN has written the first authorised biography of one of the ...
Fresh off of winning the 2020 Danger Prize, sociologist, researcher and author TANYA BRETHERTON has returned ...
Anna und Gunther is the debut novel from Jacob Hendryx, drawn upon the inspiring story of his grandparents ...
When Malika, a young orphan in rural Pakistan, is savagely attacked, her face is left disfigured and her ...
Ash Mountain is the latest domestic thriller from HELEN FITZGERALD, set amongst a destructive bushfire in a rural ...
Grace Harkness looks like she has it all – two beautiful children, four cookbooks under her belt and an idyllic ...
Scott is in shock when his family - his father Leo, sister Natalie, the twins and their stepmother Sally - move ...
It’s been six years since the release of Ishiguro’s previous novel, The Buried Giant. The waiting has been ...
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Reviews
If you enjoy a good mystery, that is inspired by a historic event, and have a passion for prose written in a ...
Henrietta Bartlett (Hen) is an Army Surgeon’s daughter and, as the novel starts, she is found assisting her ...
Out in the boondocks of Victoria, the highlight of the year is often the Bachelor and Spinsters Ball. Locals, ...
Anthony Hill, whose writing career has involved historical research for his earlier books, including those about ...
Stillbirth. Writing about it can be like pregnancy itself: fraught with danger. Gildfind emerges unscathed, the ...
This book is both topical and subversive, coming in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests in the United ...
Anyone who has been around animals will know they all have their own personalities. Jane Smiley’s ability to ...
Right from the prologue there is a palpable sense of tension. Tension coupled with ambiguity. We are not told ...
Both these two books were winners of this year’s Viva La Novella Prize. Their stories provide a contemporary and ...
This magnificent short story collection is apposite, being centred on China, the geopolitical elephant in the ...
Every family has secrets, and nobody guards them as successfully as Mary, a grandmother living in rural ...
Rose is a child psychologist having a middle-class mid-life crisis. Her mother has sent her on a Christmas ...
Some writers publish stories which all end up feeling the same. Marilynne Robinson, on the other hand, has written ...
There is a lot to learn from this memoir by a two-time survivor of leukaemia. When Everett was just nine she ...
For 12 years Rupert Everett dreamed of writing, directing, starring in, and producing a film about Oscar Wilde ...
The Gallipoli campaign has been a big deal in Australia since at least the 1970s and so the story of the ...
Politics, the public service, and Canberra in 1977. Politics was ‘interesting’ and because Dowse worked in this ...
Its the dawn of the new millennium and two very different mothers-to-be are in the same hospital about to give ...
Dr Erma Bridges is a precocious early career academic, whose research focus and the topic of her work in ...
If you’re like me and think the long, languid days of summer are best suited to gripping page-turners, then grab ...
The Second Sun is a very assured debut with a tight plot, well-crafted characters and just enough surprises and ...
British crime writer Will Carver takes fiendish delight in veering from familiar paths and taking readers on ...
This is the second book in the Clementine Jones series. Clem knows that the death of her friend Helen, a second ...
Will Dean is the author of the ‘ Tuva Moodyson Mystery’ crime series.This is his first stand-alone novel.
In ...
This gentle, witty memoir about raising a llama on a Welsh hill farm was first published 50 years ago. It has ...
The Rock is the third book from Australian journalist Aaron Smith, which chronicles his time at Australia’s most ...
This is a love letter to the author’s homeland, Australia.
He’s been away working in Los Angeles in the US for ...
Those readers who have a family member with whom they constantly disagree, please raise your hand. Yes … thought ...
Sir Peter Cosgrove was Australia’s Governor-General between 2014 and 2019. Born in 1947 he attended the Royal ...
The first two words seem deliberate: ‘Imagine this’. Already the author is engaging the brain of the reader, and ...
Described as ‘catnip for the curious’, this collection of explainers from The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald ...
Please Don’t Hug Me is a delightful own-voices novel from debut author Kay Kerr. It follows Year 12 student Erin ...
Imagine feeling fear ... always. Imagine feeling discriminated against … always. Imagine being persecuted … ...
Galbraith was one of few planets colonised after climate change and overpopulation destroyed Earth. With all ...
Fly is a handy compendium of all the things I should have learned in high school but didn’t. Written by ...
Maxie, Fergie, Flash and Lady live in the shed on Mrs Brown’s farm. Maxie is an old Volkswagen; the beetle-kind. ...
I was born and bred in Australia into a typical white Anglo-Saxon family. Even though I know in my head what ...
Ever wondered what the future might look like? Future Friend gives us an insight into the world a thousand years ...
It is with an air of anticipation that we meet young Lara who is travelling on a bright and sunny Sydney morning ...
It’s ‘the final freeze of an Antarctic winter’. Summer is coming.
An iceberg calves - shears from a glacier and ...
If you’ve been to Italy and fallen in love with the beautiful city of Florence then this book is for you. The ...
What silly words send your youngies into fits of laughter?
If you ask them if they have the ‘collywobbles’, or ...
This is the story of a Cow, a Duck and a very big Tree.
It is not only very big but just right for these two ...
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