Set in a small Australian town dominated by a family of drug dealers, Stuart Everly-Wilson’s new novel is full of memorable ...

Lyn Dickens’s award-winning debut novel of an independent woman in colonial South Australia explores prejudice, power and identity.

Alix E Harrow’s time-travelling new novel asks questions about our most cherished national myths and what might happen if ...

Human history has seen many civilisations rise and fall. Luke Kemp contemplates the fate of ours in Goliath's Curse.

Claire North’s new novel might be science fiction, but the problems her characters face have many resonances with those of ...

Art historian Thomas Schlesser brings 52 artworks to life in this fable-like story of a grandfather discussing art with his granddaughter.

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Tara June Winch’s multi-award-winning novel is told in three voices, one of which takes the form of a dictionary. Yield, bend the feet, tread, as in walking, also long, tall – baayanha. Yield itself ...

A finalist in the Ngaio Awards for Best First Crime Novel, Paper Cage is the story of a divided community and a string of missing children. There’s not much that happens in Masterton that Lo Henry ...

This conclusion to Phil Craig’s Finest Hour trilogy shows how, far from marking an end to war and suffering, 1945 created more of it. The world is imperfect, the relationships between and within ...

The lyrical second novel from the author of The Burial criss-crosses through time following one girl’s parallel lives. Bird is the pensive, defiant 14-year-old protagonist of Courtney Collins’ new ...