Barry Hill’s new poetry collection Lamb blends insightful, impatient and powerful commentary with grandfatherly reflections on birth and love.
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Vaccine Nation is a timely, urgent and often deeply personal account of vaccination’s role in our world.
The Women’s prize winning book, two wildly different iterations of Scotland on screen, the meeting of two great Regency minds and a big win for us!
Ageing, especially women’s ageing, is often viewed negatively. In her memoir Blooming, Carol Lefevre critiques different forms of ageism.
This devastating book successfully prosecutes the case of Biden’s decline and the conspiracy to hide it – but underplays Biden’s achievements.
Dominic Amerena’s debut novel explores the selfish side of literary life: the desire to have a real story, no matter who it belongs to – or what it may cost.
Humans are inescapably moral animals. Yet it is rare for most of us to reflect on how well our moral compasses are working.
Jim Chalmers, Andrew Leigh and Gavin Newsom are among the high-ranking politicians reading and sharing Abundance – a book that urges the left to reset its priorities.
Salvage is a heartbreaking, life-affirming Australian dystopia that centres human connection – as the rich search for ways to escape and the poor salvage what they can.
In 38 Londres Street, Philippe Sands brings to light the struggle to hold Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and former Nazi Walther Rauff accountable.
In Always Home, Always Homesick, Hannah Kent reveals how Iceland defines and divides her identity as a writer.
Women are routinely degraded for entertainment in popular culture, from rap to reality TV. It’s packaged and sold as empowering and ‘good for women’.
Megan Clement asks: why do some get to travel their chosen paths, while those most in need, like asylum seekers, are imprisoned for following them?
The revered nature writer asks ambitious questions in his latest work, written at a tipping point for the world’s climate.
Laura Elvery’s novel, Nightingale, invites us to see the legendary nurse not as a symbol, but as a person shaped by illness, desire, pain and time.
Landfall is a haunting and propulsive crime novel, set in 2050s Sydney, that weighs the value of a human life on an ecologically ravaged planet.
Catherine Chidgey’s new novel, set in an alternative UK under a version of Thatcher, continues her exploration of murky morality and the legacy of Nazi Germany.
The International Booker Prize nominee follows a French coastguard operator haunted by the deaths she did not prevent.
Spotify officially claims it was started because its founders ‘love music and piracy was killing it’. But a new book argues this is rewriting history.
Six slim novels with big stories.
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