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Ten new fiction and non-fiction books to add to your reading list

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

  • Cameron Woodhead and Fiona Capp

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Legendary Hollywood executive Barry Diller in his suite at The Carlyle hotel in New York.

Billionaire Barry Diller - married to Diane von Fürstenberg - comes out in new memoir

The former CEO of Paramount Pictures reveals how he hid his sexuality, while also sharing his business acumen and revealing juicy Hollywood anecdotes.

  • Nathan Smith
Philosopher and author Slavoj Žižek.

Rock-star philosopher celebrates the joy of pessimism

Despite what he says is the upending of the neoliberal capitalist order, Slavoj Žižek is determined to avoid disappointment.

  • JP O'Malley
Poet and author Robbie Coburn.

A haunting tribute to the bonds between humans and animals

Poet Robbie Coburn’s verse novel explores the potential power of the relationship between horses and humans to transform a troubled life.

  • Candida Baker
Justine Hyde, new CEO of Abbotsford Convent.

Is this Melbourne’s only CEO job with sheep grazing outside the office?

Justine Hyde has an ambitious plan to put Abbotsford Convent on the map, setting her sights on transforming it into more than just a haven for locals.

  • John Bailey
Jennifer Mills’ works explore how spectres from the past are eternally resurrecting in the present.

This new cli-fi novel envisages a more hopeful apocalypse

Jennifer Mills’ science-fiction novel portrays the before and after of an ecological apocalypse.

  • Jack Cameron Stanton
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Still keeping some secrets, Beyoncé’s mother opens up

Tina Knowles’ memoir is a moving meditation on black motherhood – but don’t expect any celebrity gossip.

  • Nathan Smith
Author Gail Jones.

This moody Australian crime thriller is utterly absorbing

Award-winning author Gail Jones’ new novel is set in Sydney and Broken Hill, both of which are vividly alive in the text.

  • Carmel Bird
A scene from Circe’s Carnival of Vice showing at fortyfivedownstairs theatre in Melbourne.

Bloomsday comes to life in surrealist ‘faux drama’ for Ulysses fans

It may be too confusing for the Joyce-curious. But for those who know the novel, Circe’s Carnival of Vice is a lively adaptation.

  • Will Cox and Jessica Nicholas
Emily Alyn Lind, Esther McGregor, Joseph Zada and Shubham Maheshwari in We Were Liars.

Based on a twisty YA bestseller, this thriller feels like a teenage Succession

We Were Liars has a touch of King Lear and a hint of Wuthering Heights, but it’s unashamedly soapie as all hell.

  • Kylie Northover

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