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• Summer Reading: with Alan Hollinghurst, Mariana Enriquez, Afra Atiq and Catherine Chidgey 08.01.2026
• Summer Reading: It's time for poetry 01.01.2026
• Summer Books Special: Novelist, essayist, raconteur Colm Tóibín 31.12.2025
• Summer Reading: Jane Austen's Enduring Charm 25.12.2025
• Summer Books Special: Irish writer Niall Williams' Time of the Child 24.12.2025
• Summer Reading: Bloody Histories 18.12.2025
• Some of My Favourite Books: Trent Dalton, Garry Disher and Heather Rose at Canberra Writers Festival 11.12.2025
• The Best Books of 2025 04.12.2025
• Memoirs, Music, Mystery: new works from Sam Sussman, Sarah Hall, Margaret Atwood 27.11.2025
• Salman Rushdie's latest/Scandi noir/Australian crime fiction wrap & more... 20.11.2025
• Fiction bending reality in new books by Thomas Pynchon, Olivia Laing and Jeanette Winterson 13.11.2025
• Madeleine Gray's Chosen Family + Chris Kraus and Graeme Macrae Burnet 06.11.2025
• October Book Buzz: Andrew Pippos, Kiran Desai, Olga Ravn & More 30.10.2025
• We reveal the books that didn’t quite make the Top 100 24.10.2025
• Brisbane Writers Festival: Eric Puchner, Toni Jordan, Patrick Holland, Zeynab Gamieldien 16.10.2025
• Four new memoirs: Mandy Sayer/Elizabeth Gilbert/Arundhati Roy/S. Shakthidharan 09.10.2025
• Top Poems of the 21st Century 02.10.2025
• Patricia Lockwood's auto-fiction-ish Will There Ever Be Another You + The Buffalo Hunter Hunter + The Original 25.09.2025
• Ian McEwan's What We Can Know + new work from Olga Tokarczuk and Miranda Darling 18.09.2025
• Still Turning Heads at 250: Jane Austen’s Enduring Charm 11.09.2025