Books & Poetry

Book review: Dyschronia

Australian author Jennifer Mills’ new novel Dyschronia finds an immediate way to talk about the ever-present but rarely acknowledged threat of climate change.

Books & Poetry

Reading list: The Hate Race

Maxine Beneba Clarke’s The Hate Race is an enlightening examination of how bullying and bigotry are separated only by the passage of years.

Books & Poetry

Jack Cox’s Dodge Rose

Touted as the most daring debut novel to come out of Australia “in recent Australian literary history”, Dodge Rose is a story of not so much its namesake, who we find on page one has died and left an unsettled estate, but of her stuff.

Books & Poetry

Annie Dillard’s The Abundance

Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Annie Dillard’s latest book reflects her interest in how we live not in, but with our world.

Books & Poetry

Sophie Hannah’s The Narrow Bed

One by one pairs of best friends are being murdered and the only thing connecting the cases is the mysterious white book given to each victim in the days leading up to their death.