'How do you capture and preserve the smell of someone once they are gone?'
'Director Kip Williams returns with his third 'cine-theatre' production of a Gothic trilogy.'
'The ties that bind after a tragic loss are examined in exquisite detail in this WA production of Jada Alberts’ finely crafted play.'
'Australian playwright, screenwriter, novelist and librettist Suzie Miller is hot property both at home and abroad. Last year, her one-woman show Prima Facie was nominated for five Laurence Olivier Awards – the highest honour in British theatre – and won two, including Best New Play.' (Introduction)
'A crime novel set in the laneways and high society of 19th century Melbourne.'
'Holland's latest novel is the antithesis to a high-octane thriller.'
'The relationships between mothers and children are explored in a futuristic setting.'
'A dystopian novel that sees climate change erase mammalian life forms. What now?'
'A memoir that tracks the love and loss of a long-term partner.'
'Music journalist Glen Humphries’ slick, passionate, photo-packed celebration of Australian rock hits some targets but misses others.'
'Jessie Tu's second novel canvasses the relationship between mother and daughter, literary translation and betrayal and love.'
'An impressive adaptation of David Malouf's classic novella about Ovid.'
'A trip to a public pool provokes deep, submerged reflections.'
'Ray Lawler, who died this week at 103, was one of the artists responsible for establishing the first non-commercial repertory theatre in Australia – the Union Repertory Theatre Company, now Melbourne Theatre Company – and the writer of its best-known play, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll.'
'How one young man's life changes when he discovers a traditional Middle Eastern instrument.'
'A playful and metafictional novel about storytelling, Chinese history and contemporary society.'
'Jordan Prosser’s much-touted first novel sometimes flies off its own tracks, but is nonetheless a very impressive debut.'
'A debut collection of essays that track unbelonging and displacement.'
'Family secrets unravel after death and the haunting of the afterlife.'
