Our bestselling books of last week include two …

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Jane Harper’s addictive new thriller tops our list of bestsell…

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Jane Harper won so many awards for her debut novel, The Dry, that I could use my entire word count just listing them. But if I did that, I wouldn’t have the chance to tell you to go and read this, her standalone third book, and another powerful read that cements her as one of Australia’s premier authors.

The Lost Man will coat everything …

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Deep in the stacks of Oxford’s Bodleian Library, young scholar Diana Bishop unwittingly calls up a bewitched alchemical manuscript. Descended from an old and distinguished line of …

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Jane Harper’s new crime thriller has arrived in-store, and …

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There are always far, far, far too many new books to talk about adequately in this column, but seriously, this month is out of control. But I want to use some words to say something about Jennifer Down, whose Pulse Points is the winner of this year’s Readings Prize. I think Down is actually a genius, and couldn’t agree more with judges about the quality of her writing: her ability to convey the e…

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Pachinko is a wonderfully immersive novel that follows multiple perspectives from WWI through to 1989. At the heart of the story is Sunja, a pregnant Korean teenager who accepts an offer of marriage from a Christian pastor and travels to Japan with him. Following a man she barely knows to a hostile country where she has no friends and no home, Sunja’s salvation is just …

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Markus Zusak makes his long-awaited return with a profoundly heartfelt and inventive novel about a family held together by stories, and a young life caught in the current. The Dunbar boys bring each other up in a hou…

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