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Millennials, mums and an Australian mermaid: eight new books

Our reviewers cast their eyes over recent fiction and non-fiction releases

  • Cameron Woodhead and Fiona Capp

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Jane Caro found that confronting the illusion of safety helped her stop fearing danger.

Is this the most Australian crime thriller of all time?

Jane Caro’s Lyrebird is a well-crafted crime novel – and as Aussie as it gets.

  • Sue Turnbull
Debut author Sophie Quick

This sharp satire features a conwoman you can empathise with

The anti-heroine in Sophie Quick’s debut novel scams people just enough to get by – because she’s a single mother with no support.

  • Jessie Tu
Spotify was meant to be the key to unlocking the world’s music, to unleashing creativity. It’s anything but.

‘Streaming as surveillance’: How Spotify is poisoning music in the digital age

In Mood Machine, American music journalist Liz Pelly outlines the story of the music streaming giant’s conquest of streaming.

  • Michael Dwyer
When Penrose publishes it is not out of any professional obligation, only because he has something worth saying.

The genius physicist whose work was inspired by Escher

Roger Penrose, a mathematician and physicist, is still working at age 93.

  • Pat Sheil
Colum McCann did extensive due diligence for the writing of Apeirogon.

A poetic thriller about humanity and connection in the internet age

Colum McCann’s new novel is, as its title suggests, a twisty literary thriller that breaks the rules.

  • Peter Craven
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From a twisty thriller to a moving Ukrainian war diary: eight new books

Our reviewers cast their eyes over new fiction and non-fiction releases.

  • Cameron Woodhead and Steven Carroll
Swiss author Christian Kracht.

This bonkers road-trip story is witty, boring and annoying. I loved it

Swiss author Christian Kracht’s novel follows a mother and son on a road trip across Switzerland squandering their riches.

  • Helen Elliott
Flynn tells the story of a global catastrophe through the prism of one small town in Orpheus Nine.

This gripping parable could only exist in a post-pandemic world

Chris Flynn’s new novel has the uneasy thrall of a lockdown-era nightmare.

  • Jordan Prosser
There’s a bumper crop of new books this April.

Steve Vizard probes the Gallipoli myth and Brooke Boney gets personal: This month in books

Plenty of new books hit the bookshops today, with more to come later in the month. Here are 15 of them.

  • Jason Steger

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