AustLit

'Miles Franklin-winner Michelle de Kretser offers unsettling possibilities and questions to ponder in her latest fiction.' 

'Charlotte McConaghy follows up her international bestseller The Last Migration with a story of wolves and the Scottish Highlands.' (Introduction)

'In The Time of Our Lives Robert Dessaix ponders approaches to ageing, and does so with ‘unending playful curiosity’.' (Introduction)

'Following her first novel Real Differences, SL Lim explores the weight of family obligations and betrayals in her second, Revenge.' 

'These two memoirs of life in remote parts of Australia reveal the challenges of isolation.'

'SL Lim’s debut won this year’s UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing at the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards and explores questions of race, religion and culture.'

'Elliot Perlman’s latest novel is a timely chronicle of lawyers and sexual harassment.'

'Tanya Heaslip is ‘An Alice Girl’ and she reveals what life was like growing up on a remote property north of Alice Springs.'

'Sophie Hardcastle’s second novel explores the lure of the sea, and the cost of violence.'

'Alice to Prague and In Love with the World are very different books with contrasting styles and perspectives and different stories to tell. Yet, fundamentally, the theme of the books is the same. Both authors choose to leave a comfortably familiar and orderly life among family and friends, and set off into strange territories to live among people whose backgrounds, experiences and expectations are alien to them. Both set out full of excitement, optimism and hope and both, at times, suffer severe disorientation, panic, doubt and terrible loneliness.'  (Introduction)

'This biography recounts how Esther went from being convicted in London’s Old Bailey and transported to Botany Bay with the First Fleet, to becoming First Lady of the colony.'   (Essay summary)