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Summer Reading: Quick, give me a recommendation!
Summer Reading from Australia and the World
Summer Reading: Fiction for a new year
Summer Reading: Books to get your teeth into
Summer Reading: What did you miss?
Crime fiction and why we keep coming back: The repeat protagonist
Best Books of 2024
The much anticipated new novel by Haruki Murakami, and plenty more...
Literature in translation with special guests Bora Chung and Anton Hur + Yu Shi
The Case for Critics - on stage at Canberra Writers' Festival with Christos Tsiolkas, Beejay Silcox and James Jiang
Niall Williams’ Time of the Child might just be the big ‘feel-good book of the year’
Dark Skies, a quest and nature writing in Inga Simpson’s The Thinning
Matricide, the (Virginia) Woolfmother, Norwegian woods: Graeme Macrae Burnet, Michelle de Kretser, Karl Ove Knausgaard
Melanie Cheng's The Burrow: can a pet rabbit heal a family dealing with tragedy?
Twins, pumas and a colonial western in Robbie Arnott’s Dusk
Tim Winton and the ruined future of his novel Juice
What's the verdict on Sally Rooney's new novel Intermezzo?
French provocateur Michel Houellebecq + Olga Tokarczuk's health resort horror
The rich and entitled are back but so are Olive Kitteridge and Lucy Barton
Malcolm Knox's The First Friend: a black comedy set in Stalin's Soviet Union
2024 mid-year review
Vortex: a new novel from Rodney Hall, twice winner of the Miles Franklin Award
Rita Bullwinkle's Headshot: a luminous debut that steps into the boxing ring
Miles Franklin Literary Award 2024
Weird fiction writer China Miéville's surprising collab with Keanu Reeves
Willy Vlautin's The Horse: drenched in twangy music and heartbreak
Dylin Hardcastle's A Language of Limbs: emotionally true, structurally complex
Awfully Rich: Taffy Brodesser-Akner's Long Island Compromise and more
Fairytales are at play in Julia Phillips' Bear
Catherine McKinnon's To Sing of War takes us to PNG during WW ll
A new fiction title from bestselling author Bruce Pascoe
Jenny Erpenbeck's Kairos, winner of the 2024 International Booker Prize
In Parade Rachel Cusk blurs reality and fiction
Kaliane Bradley's extraordinary time travel love story
Booker Prize winner Paul Lynch joins an all-star panel from SWF
A new novel from Miles Franklin winner Shankari Chandran
Claire Messud's epic family odyssey
Colm Tóibín's long awaited sequel to Brooklyn
Gabriel Garcia Marquez's lost novel
One Day author David Nicholls is back
A never before published novel from Charmian Clift
Bri Lee's The Work explores art, ambition, privilege and power
Andrew O'Hagan's Caledonian Road is "majestic"
Téa Obreht, Asako Yuzuki, Steven Carroll: dystopia, butter, murder
Reimagining Huckleberry Finn, a talking fox, art and alienation
Three new Australian novels! Iain Ryan, Amy Brown, Sharlene Allsopp
A Trans-Tasman edition: Myfanwy Jones, Anna Smaill and Sulari Gentill
Meditations on writing: Gail Jones, Jennifer Croft and a new anthology edited by Margaret Atwood
Dreams and nightmares: Leo Vardiashvili, Teju Cole, Matthew Blake
Mysteries and meta-physical thrillers: Kemper Donovan, Mike McCormack and Alex Michaelides
New fiction from Francis Spufford, Hisham Matar and Kiley Reid
We're back for 2024 featuring new novels from Katherena Vermette, Dolly Alderton and Jonathan Lethem
Summer Reads: history remade, futures reimagined
Summer Reads: True Crime, historical injustice, NZ satire and God's Teeth
Summer Reads: from Aphra Behn to Max Porter
Summer reading: heists, horses, Harlem, Ireland, rage
Summer Reads: Impossible creatures, an Indian thriller and love in a cherry orchard
Romance, crime, adventure: Summer reading recommendations
Best Books of 2023: What to read now, next and over Summer
Bad Art Mother: Canberra Writers Festival Book Club pod extra
The Book Club: Thrillers
Reading the end of the world: Naomi Alderman, Michael Cunningham, Nicholas Jose, Katherine Brabon
Lucy Treloar, Tony Birch, Paul Auster, A K Blakemore: Books to chew on
Memory, history, ghosts and parrots: Richard Flanagan, Sigrid Nunez, Jayne Anne Phillips
The Book Club: Historical Fiction with Jesmyn Ward's Let Us Descend and Zadie Smith's The Fraud
New novels from Christos Tsiolkas, Amanda Lohrey, David Diop and Siân Hughes
Jellyfish, beauty, betrayal and Camelot: new fiction
Melissa Lucashenko, Charlotte Wood and Bryan Washington: powerful new fiction
Three major new works - Trent Dalton, Paul Harding and Suzie Miller
The Book Club - Short Stories
Lauren Groff, Daniel Mason and Anna Kate Blair: fables, trees, history and art
Novels by Anne Enright, Paul Lynch and Emma Donoghue: love, pain, politics and Ireland
Bringing the Past to Life: with Geraldine Brooks, Pip Williams and Sally Colin-James
The Book Club: Frank Moorhouse Retrospective
New fiction from Chris Womersley, Jenny Erpenbeck and Tan Twan Eng: Australia, Germany, Malaysia
New fiction from Peter Polites, Angela O'Keeffe and Guy Guneratne
New books by Ann Patchett, Naoise Dolan and Hwang Sok-yong: “Good marriages are never as interesting as bad affairs”
The Book Club - Miles Franklin Literary Award 2023 shortlist
Crooked Harlem, corrupt Wellington, bereaved London: books by Colson Whitehead, Emily Perkins and Elizabeth McCracken
A crying room, a road trip and blazing fury: Gretchen Shirm, Richard Ford and Claire Kilroy
Fiction: The State of the Art
Wifedom, hoarded memories and political road rage: New books by Anna Funder, Jen Craig and Priya Guns
The Book Club: The Greek Myths
Miles Franklin Literary Award shortlist 2023: pod extra interview special
Gay saunas, dog walking and an extravagant lie: new fiction from R F Kuang, Dennis Altman and Briohny Doyle
Strangers and Saints: Katherena Vermette and Benjamin Myers
Politicians, ghosts and sad girls: books by Lorrie Moore, Robert Gott and Pip Finkemeyer
The Book Club - Romantic Comedy
From the Sydney Writers Festival with Shehan Karunatilaka, Jason Reynolds and Grace Chan
Grifters, pilgrims and scribes: new fiction from Emma Cline, Benjamin Myers and Robyn Cadwallader
History, identity, doppelgangers: new fiction from Deborah Levy, André Dao and Catherine Lacey
Poetry, jumpers, islands: new fiction from John Kinsella, Justin Cronin, Jente Posthuma
The Book Club: Salman Rushdie
New books by Max Porter, Han Kang and Yan Lianke
A bookbinder, Andy Warhol's typist and the cleverest woman in the world
Dystopia, satire, gladiators and gardeners: new fiction from Eleanor Catton and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
The Book Club - weather in fiction with Hannah Kent and Robbie Arnott
Mermaids, man overboard and more: new fiction from Julia Langbein and Stephanie Bishop
Sleuths, silence, secrets: new fiction from Rebecca Makkai, Carole Hailey and Sebastian Barry
Freedom, family and an all-consuming love: new fiction from Anindita Ghose, Vigdis Hjorth and Alice Nelson