Australian fiction
The Ruin by Dervla McTiernan
If you’re on the hunt for a crime story that’s going to consume every other thought in your head, wring you out like a wet towel, and then deposit you back in the real world with your nerves fried to…
The Lucky Galah by Tracy Sorensen
Lucky is a galah living in the remote town of Port Badminton, on the north-west coast of Australia, and she is a born storyteller. With the help of a defunct satellite dish, which can sporadically communicate the thoughts of the…
The Passengers by Eleanor Limprecht
The joy of reading The Passengers is that this novel represents the lives of women and also illustrates the vastness and separateness of Australia from the rest of the world. Eleanor Limprecht’s work can be relied upon to follow certain…
The Lebs by Michael Mohammed Ahmad
The new novel from Michael Mohammed Ahmad is a bold and wired read; tension is coiled tightly within every paragraph. The way the prose comes at you, you’d swear it was cornering you.
Divided into three sections, we follow Bani…
What the Light Reveals by Mick McCoy
Mick McCoy’s latest novel opens in 1954 as Conrad Murphy travels from Melbourne to Sydney to appear before the Royal Commission on Espionage. An active and unabashed member of the Communist Party, Conrad is ultimately cleared of espionage charges but…
The Whole Bright Year by Debra Oswald
Debra Oswald has been writing since she was a teenager and is perhaps best known for her scriptwriting for both stage and screen (she is the creator and main writer of the TV series Offspring). In 2015, Oswald released…
Dyschronia by Jennifer Mills
In recent years, a number of Australian authors have turned their attention to the interrelated effects of climate change, the disintegration of rural communities, the growing power of corporations and the omnipresence of social media. Lois Murphy’s Soon and Briohny…
Domestic Interior by Fiona Wright
When I was at uni, one of my favourite tutors gave me an excellent, simple piece of advice on writing poetry. She said the title of the poem should be treated as its first line, and ideally set the tone…
Mrs. M by Luke Slattery
Over the course of a long, sleepless night, Elizabeth Macquarie composes an epitaph for her husband, Governor Lachlan Macquarie. From widowhood on the Isle of Mull, she revisits their part in the tumultuous life of colonial Australia.
In Mrs. M…
Atlantic Black by A.S. Patrić
When I finished reading Alec Patrić’s latest book, I was surprised to find myself in the same room as I was when I started reading. Surely something must have changed. I had been swept away on a journey and yet…
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