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Nobody’s Girl is Virginia Giuffre’s inside account of the two years she spent as a ‘sex slave’ working for Jeffrey Epstein and co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell.
Is Kiran Desai’s The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny the great American–Indian novel?
The Underworld showcases Sofie Laguna’s tremendous ability as a writer. But it’s hard not to want the novel to risk more and ask more.
Ethiopian migrants in Johannesburg have reused buildings, densified commercial space and developed networks.
Grisham’s first foray into the murder mystery is light on clues but heavy on critique of the law.
Australian author Elizabeth Harrower wrote four novels in rapid succession. Then she stopped. Perhaps the miracle is that she wrote anything, given her childhood.
There is no creeping conservatism about the octogenarian Bob Brown. In his new book, he evokes the great tradition of non-violent political action.
Mandy Sayer’s charming, challenging musician father is central to her four memoirs – including her shimmering latest, No Dancing in the Lift.
Eight posthumously discovered stories by the author of To Kill a Mockingbird are closer to a famous writer’s juvenilia than literary buried treasure.
With Shadow Ticket, Pynchon reminds us the line between chaos and order, corruption and truth, remains as thin, porous and perilous as ever.
These three whimsical short stories tell the story of Woolf’s dear friend Violet Dickinson.
In A Woman’s Eye, Her Art, Drusilla Modjeska unpacks how the once-forgotten women artists of the early 20th century continue to inspire today.
In his rollicking scientific true-crime book, The Butterfly Thief, Walter Marsh delves into the dark side of museum collection histories – and one bizarre heist.
Governments have repeatedly failed to learn lessons about keeping their residents safe and building better social housing for their future.
A legal expert reviews Duncan McNab’s Recipe for Murder and Greg Haddrick’s The Mushroom Murders – both published on the same day.
Andrew Roff’s debut novel, Here Are My Demands, looks forward to an imagined future – but seems more concerned with now.
We believe things because doing so helps us belong and upholds a certain moral order, but not necessarily because they are true.
A missing poem is at the centre of What We Can Know, a sprawling, surprising novel set in a time of climate catastrophe.
In her campaign memoir, Kamala Harris reveals her true thoughts on Joe Biden, takes us behind the scenes of her presidential candidacy and dishes the occasional dirt.
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