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• Superstar children's author Andy Griffiths reviews! Plus, Omar Musa's Fierceland and Geoff Dyer's Homework 04.09.2025
• Greyhounds, dark academia and an Amish community in new fiction by Toni Jordan, R.F. Kuang and Ron Rindo 28.08.2025
• A simmering summer in Greece, rare snails, dystopia with a twist: new fiction by Amy Taylor, Leif Enger and Maria Reva 21.08.2025
• AI in America, a kidnapping in Corsica, the transformative power of boxing: books by Gary Shteyngart, Darrow Farr, and Lucas Schaefer 14.08.2025
• People turning into trees, mythical rivers rising...new novels by Rhett Davis and Gurnaik Johal (plus, Irish fiction with Colm Tóibín) 07.08.2025
• 2025 Miles Franklin Literary Award assessed 31.07.2025
• Parties, scandals, sex, love: new novels by Nell Zink, Amy Bloom and the controversial James Frey 24.07.2025
• New Australian crime + hungry ghosts and a great white whale 17.07.2025
• Sydney Writer's Festival: The State of the Art of the Novel 10.07.2025
• Mystery in new fiction from Ben Okri, Sameer Pandya and Anjet Daanje 03.07.2025
• Sweat, sport and sharp Australian satire; And the 2025 International Booker Prize winner 26.06.2025
• Popular fiction across space and time, and queer bush doof thriller in Thomas Vowles' Our New Gods 19.06.2025
• Reading James Joyce's Ulysses for Bloomsday (and new fiction galore) 12.06.2025
• New fiction from Gail Jones, S A Cosby and Seán Hewitt 05.06.2025
• A vibrant gay coming-of-age story set in Geraldton 29.05.2025
• Sydney Writers' Festival: Top 100 Books launched with Alan Hollinghurst, Catherine Chidgey, Mariana Enriquez, Afra Atiq 23.05.2025
• On stage at Melbourne Writers' Festival with Hannah Kent and Beejay Silcox 15.05.2025
• A woman falls through the cracks of time in the first of Solvej Balle's seven-novel-series 08.05.2025
• A beach holiday told four ways in Luke Horton's Time Together 01.05.2025
• James Bradley's Landfall reveals a flooded, baked and dilapidated city 24.04.2025