Cirrus@Austlit

'This tightly plotted story shows a woman on the brink, and doesn’t make much room for anything else' (Introduction)

'Baxter’s follow-up to New Animal is part Melbourne scene sketch, part stalker thriller – and a wholly unique manifesto for seizing creative power from fear' 

'Sixteen years after his internationally lauded debut, the author of The Boat is back. He talks about writing under pressure, and why ‘authenticity’ is a trap' 

'As Charlotte Wood was writing her latest book, she got cancer. As did her two sisters. But the acclaimed novelist is determined that her work is not despairing'

'In this sequel of sorts to The Magpie Wing, a group of thirtysomethings share the rent in Sydney, searching for solidarity and meaning in a sterile, gentrifying world'

'The latest novel from the author of Too Much Lip splits its time between the 1800s and 2024 and provides a masterclass in humour, flair and generosity'

'Davis’s debut skilfully weaves the chaos of life online into a story about a dissolving city and a family on the edge – but is it all a bit too neat?'

'The acclaimed author seeks ‘the perfect children’s picture book of death’ to help her sons – and herself – come to terms with their father’s illness' 

'Young people try – and fail – to live gorgeously in the Melbourne writer’s debut collection, which is bleak, acute and stealthily tender'

'The Booker prize-winner continues to indulge himself in a rage against metrics – but after a couple of decades of choppy form, that’s not necessarily a bad thing' (Introduction)

'This elegant debut is sinuous and strange – a slow-burn gothic thriller spiked with antiques and Freud, and partly set on the Mornington Peninsula'