The new novel from the author of Dyschronia and The Airways is climate fiction focussed on human adaptability.

His first novel has just won a prestigious Nebula Award; now John Wiswell puts his humorous and humanist spin on the labours of Heracles.

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

Jo Harkin’s novel is a fresh and rollicking take on the mystery of fifteenth-century pretender to the English throne, Lambert Simnel. Perhaps the best part of John’s life (and the funniest) is when he ...

PHIL CRAIG 1945: The Reckoning. Reviewed by Braham Dabscheck by NRB | 3 Jun 2025 | Non-fiction | 1 comment This conclusion to Phil Craig’s Finest Hour trilogy shows how, far from marking an end to war ...

This diverse anthology challenges stereotypes by bringing together Autistic women and gender-diverse writers to share their experiences. In their introduction to Someone Like Me, editors Clem Bastow ...

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, ...

ASHLEY KALAGIAN BLUNT Cold Truth. Reviewed by Karen Chisholm by NRB | 13 Feb 2025 | Crime Scene, Fiction | 0 comments Set amid the ferocious cold of a Canadian winter, Ashley Kalagian Blunt’s new ...

In Austrian writer Eva Menasse’s new novel, the residents of a small border town are shaken when uncomfortable truths from the past come to light. Darkenbloom is a fictitious small town on the ...

Iain Ryan’s latest novel continues his fascination with 1980s Queensland and the tentacles of corruption that captured police and politicians. The Gold Coast, 1982: Queensland is deep in recession and ...

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 ...