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Debut fiction to read this month

What I Would Do to You by Georgia Harper

In a near-future Australia, the death penalty is back. But if the victim's family wants the perpetrator to die, they have to do it themselves. Twenty-four hours alone in a room with the condemned. No cameras. No microphones. Just whatever punishment they decide befits the crime.

Ten-year-old Lucy was murdered in…

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Top picks for book clubs this month

Australian fiction | Dirt Poor Islanders by Winnie Dunn

Meadow Reed used to get confused when explaining that she had grandparents from Australia, Tonga and Great Britain. She'd say she was full-White and full-Tongan, thinking that so many halves made separate wholes. Despite the Anglo-Saxon genetics that gave Meadow a narrow nose and light-brown skin, everybody who raised her was…

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What we’re reading: Andrew, Knight & Fan

Each week our wonderful staff share the books and music that they've been enjoying.

Yasmin Baker is reading Your Blood, My Bones by Kelly Andrew

I recently read Your Blood, My Bones by Kelly Andrew in one sitting – I could not put it down! It was spooky and the plot was intense, but for me it was the characters…

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