Chloe Dalton’s memoir of raising an orphaned hare in the English countryside is both beautiful and unsentimental.

How many hours comprise ‘a fair day’s work’? Sean Scalmer charts the history of Australian campaigns for shorter hours.

A charismatic criminal, corrupt cops, the brutality of Grafton Gaol - the story of Kevin John Simmonds is more than ...

Award-winning short story writer Laura Elvery's first novel delivers a vivid portrait of Florence Nightingale and the horrors of war.

Jennifer Trevelyan’s debut novel is both a coming of age story and a mystery full of secrets set within a 1980s New Zealand beach holiday. All sorts of things might have happened to the girl’s body ...

Longlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize, Tan Twan Eng’s novel reimagines the events in Penang that inspired a famous Somerset Maugham story. Those familiar with Tan Twan Eng’s writing, and that of ...

Set on the Australian coast, Suzanne Do’s first novel is both a murder mystery and a story of grief, family and connection. Lili Berry is in her twenties, and her world is a mess of anxiety, ...

Barry Diller has worked with some of the biggest names in entertainment in a career spanning Paramount, Fox and now his own media company. Serendipity, that variation on the idea of a happy accident ...

Sarah Gilbert’s account of this religious order offers a rare insight into the women who chose to separate themselves from the world. In the 1950s and 60s, eight young women left their families to ...