This Issue
Win Every Wild Soul
On Tasmania's wild and remote Maria Island, eighteen-year-old Min is trying to break free from her controlling, overly protective father, the island's head ranger. Her unlikely ally is Werner, an eccentric, homeless biologist who has always taught her to care for the imperilled natural world around her - even as it sets them against Piers, her father, who has his own plans. When Lucie, a journalist haunted by her family's role in the thylacine's extinction, ...
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Features
In an era of mobile phone addiction and ever-expanding cities, many of us fear we’ve lost our connection to nature ...
Peter Wohlleben, author of the wonderful The Secret Life of Trees, and my absolute most favourite tree man, is ...
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is the first novel by acclaimed auteur film director and screenwriter QUENTIN ...
In My Defence I Have No Defence is the debut book of Melbourne-based comedy and lifestyle writer SINÉAD STUBBINS, ...
This month our book club pick is Fury by Australian author, KATHRYN HEYMAN. It is a searing memoir and a coming of ...
Author TONY MATTHEWS’ new book, Quiet Courage, highlights the incredible bravely of ordinary people. He shares ...
A serial killer is stalking through Sydney, hell-bent on recreating scenes from the Fabrica, the 16th-century ...
Autobiography or fiction? This question has shadowed the work of enigmatic Australian author Eve Langley since her ...
He's been named one of Australia's 100 most influential people, yet he's often considered a thorn in the side ...
In a heady whirlwind of independence, lust and defiance, 16-year-old Karuna falls pregnant. Not on purpose, but ...
gr's resident book and film buff Clive Hodges reviews Cruella, a prequel to One Hundred and One Dalmatians by ...
Nicola West shares with us her deeply personal story behind Catch Us the Foxes.
Set in the bucolic seaside ...
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Reviews
The narrator of this novel is a dead girl talking to the reader in the second person. She tells you that a ...
An enigmatic chapter opens the novel. Dawn is breaking and a baby seems to have been abandoned among the trash and ...
In 1866 England, Nell is a violet picker who is devoted to her brother and to the sea that her village ...
First Person Singular is a new collection of short stories from renowned author Haruki Murakami, who has written ...
There seems to be an abundance of books set during World War II in the market at present, with a wealth of stories ...
This is a compelling and distinct debut novel that follows the journey of an intersex twin named Oto as she ...
Elizabeth and Ray meet in high school and instantly know they belong together. Despite opposition from her ...
I’m pretty sure that Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri’s latest book, Whereabouts, will polarise readers. Some ...
Whether by accident or design, this book’s timing is perfect. It takes a well-fashioned battering ram to the ...
Steven Hall was set to be the Generation X’s J D Salinger for a while. He burned very hot and bright back in ...
Many readers will be familiar with the 1940s Ern Malley affair. Sydney poets James McAuley and Harold Stewart ...
The first thing to note is that this is not a collection of absurd, impossible-to-believe urban myths. These ...
This is a book of love and loss, focusing on friendships, belonging and maturing into independence. Our unnamed ...
Between Perth and the Goldfields region there are over 150 000 square kms of prime agricultural land called the ...
We first meet 17-year-old Lenni in the Glasgow Princess Royal Hospital. When she thinks of the word ‘terminal’ she ...
In a remote Australian outback 50-something Frank runs a service station located on a remote outback highway. He ...
Irish author Jane Casey has made quite a name for herself with her bestselling series starring DC Maeve Kerrigan. ...
It is not often that one reads a novel with an entirely new type of plot. And it is certainly rare to encounter ...
From the opening paragraph of the prologue, the reader would be forgiven for believing they were reading a war ...
Long-time storyteller, first-time crime novelist, D V Bishop delivers a sumptuous historical thriller in City of ...
This is Jeffrey Archer’s eagerly awaited third instalment in the series featuring William Warwick. Warwick ...
Meg lives alone on an isolated property. She has agreed to take in a mother and her two young daughters who are on ...
Twenty years ago in Blairgowrie, on the Mornington Peninsula, three young girls weaved their way along a sandy ...
It’s 1963. The setting is Darwin. It’s a bit rough, full of character and hot. The humidity so thick in the air ...
I don’t want to label Homecoming as ‘poetry’ because it’s not poetry in the traditional sense and if I do, you ...
For a book centred on feminism, the word ‘machismo’ appears early and often. This is the Latin American concept of ...
This insightful memoir follows Fiona Murphy’s journey from adolescence into young adulthood, as she reconciles ...
You’d be forgiven for thinking that a book with such a title is a dark Gothic mystery until you notice that the ...
Emmanuel Acho is an ex-NFL player with a master’s in sports psychology. He was the youngest football analyst on ...
It sounds idyllic. A lifestyle living on the Northern beaches with its magnificent views, golden sands, surf ...
Somewhere in the expansive library of books on writing there’s a top shelf. On it – alone – is this book. George ...
Fungi are everywhere and almost everything requires fungi to survive. In this new book we take a deep dive below ...
If your idea of finding stolen art is sifting through dusty archives checking for provenance, then you haven’t ...
Anyone who has visited Port Arthur in southern Tasmania, already knows that it was an horrendous penal ...
Penang is renowned as the food capital of Malaysia with Chinese, Indian, Nyonya and Thai influences embodied in ...
Cook, Eat Repeat is classic Nigella Lawson. It’s comforting, familiar and written in her unique tone (you can ...
In Ripe Figs Yasmin Khan shares recipes and the stories of the eastern Mediterranean countries of Greece, ...
I stayed in Munich in 2019 and visited Dachau concentration camp. Although the most terrible atrocities had ...
One hundred years ago, yes way back in 1921, a little fella called Ginger Meggs was born. He started his life ...
This book takes a different perspective of World War II, based on true stories, drawing on the experiences of ...
The RMS Aquitania had a long and illustrious career as a luxurious ocean liner while also serving in two world ...
Ally Simpson lives with her dad, Russell, in the drought-ridden town of Yallaroo. The Year 7 students at ...
In Little Gem we meet Gem who is attending Witchcraft School, learning and practising her trade. Unfortunately ...
Have you ever wondered why you had to blink twice because you couldn’t believe what you were seeing? Or ...
Have you ever wondered what the first animal on Earth looked like? Was it an Anomalocaris which lived 530 to ...
‘Bear,’ said Rat. ‘I’ve been wondering.
Will we always hold hands like this, even when we are old and wrinkly ...
Way back in 1971, Roger Hargreaves’ young son asked his dad, ‘What does a tickle look like?’ His dad thought ...
He landed in a rocket ship,
From a land far, far away.
He wears a mask across his lips.
I think he’s here to ...
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