Richard Denniss provides a chilling analysis of the ploys our politicians use to govern in the interests of everyone but the public.

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Poison, mirror worlds, a life in danger and a seemingly impossible task – T Kingfisher’s latest fantasy has them all. And a ...

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No casual tombstone tourist, Mariana Enriquez details her fascination with cemeteries, their histories and their famous ...

David Price’s history of Western Australia’s lock hospitals and the ‘treatments’ meted out to Aboriginal people is shocking ...

Longlisted for the 2025 ARA Historical Novel Prize, Matthew Hooton’s novel traces memories of Henry Ford’s experimental settlement in Brazil. I know my grandson, Nicholas, thinks of my personal ...

How will the future judge us? Ian McEwan’s new novel looks back at our world from the perspective of 2119. The first half of What We Can Know is set in 2119, a time in which Britain is a series of ...

Chloe Dalton’s memoir of raising an orphaned hare in the English countryside is both beautiful and unsentimental. Chloe Dalton never expected to raise a hare. In her professional life as a foreign ...

Chloe Dalton’s memoir of raising an orphaned hare in the English countryside is both beautiful and unsentimental. Chloe Dalton never expected to raise a hare. In her professional life as a foreign ...