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.

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 ...

Robert Drewe’s Ned Kelly gets under the skin. Nine years before Peter Carey published his Booker-winner The True History of the Kelly Gang, he gave a cover endorsement to Robert Drewe’s Our Sunshine, ...

This week we’re delighted to bring you an extract from Julie Janson’s new novel Benevolence. In this vivid and very moving novel, Indigenous author Julie Janson takes us back to the early days of ...

Ross McMullin’s account of those who fought in World War I is a masterpiece of storytelling, weaving family, community, sporting, and military history into a satisfying whole. In previous books such ...

This latest offering of Australian rural noir contrasts urban and small-town sensibilities from the perspective of a child protection officer. Readers of Crows Nest will not be surprised to learn that ...

Spies, magic, intrigue, and the human cost of an expanding empire all feature in Australian author Alina Bellchambers’ debut fantasy. Growing up on the run from mysterious criminals with her mother, ...

In this month’s Flashback Friday, Anna Verney assesses Deborah Levy’s 2018 memoir The Cost of Living. As readers of South African-born British writer Deborah Levy’s literary fiction will know, it ...

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 ...

JENNIFER ACKERMAN What an Owl Knows. Reviewed by Ann Skea by NRB | 11 Jul 2023 | Non-fiction | 0 comments Jennifer Ackerman provides insights into owl-human relations and what we know about these ...