British historian Anne Sebba’s account of the Nazi death camp describes the dissonance of beautiful music in a place of suffering and death.

The French Open may be over for another year, but Roland-Garros will always belong to Rafael Nadal, its all-time champion.

Winner of a Queensland Literary Award, Steve MinOn’s debut novel charts the lives – and afterlives – of a family of Chinese ...

Emily Tesh’s magical fantasy The Incandescent is as much about the art of teaching as it is about dealing with demons.

Laurie Woolever – cook, writer, and fixer for chef Anthony Bourdain – enjoyed the glamour of a celebrity lifestyle. But it ...

This conclusion to Phil Craig’s Finest Hour trilogy shows how, far from marking an end to war and suffering, 1945 created more of it.

Set in Guatemala, Australian Rachel Morton’s debut novel of a young woman searching for her place in the world is already a prize-winner. Ruth is in her thirties and is disillusioned with life. She ...

The dystopian new novel from the author of Mammoth imagines a shocking, and ongoing, tragedy to explore grief, community, and anger. Chris Flynn opens his new novel Orpheus Nine with a staggering, ...

Argentinian writer Marina Yuszczuk puts her twist on the vampire novel in Thirst, set amid Buenos Aires’ oldest cemetery. There’s something defiant about how she doesn’t look away when I fix my eyes ...

Eric Beecher’s vital new book provides a history of world journalism, good and bad, with a pessimistic view of the future. Beecher knows his territory. In his youth he was an investigative journalist ...

Tim Winton’s new novel dives into a post-climate-change world where violence seems the only solution. The opening of Tim Winton’s new novel Juice cannot help but put readers in mind of Cormac McCarthy ...

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