We all fell hard for Phosphorescence, which became an essential panacea in a world blighted by difficulty (remember the pandemic?) And now Julia Baird has delivered Bright Shining, and we need it...

In the first lines of a novel, the writer shapes not just the world, but the eyes through which the reader will experience it. Will they be strapped into a speeding car or kept at arm's length? In...

Australia has long been fascinated by our vast spaces and by the potential to become ‘lost’. Our three authors play with this fear in very different ways. Jane Caro's thriller takes us to remote...