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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

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Book Reviews 2025

Book Reviews

What’s good, what’s bad, and what’s in between in literature this year? Here we review the latest titles.

Musican, artist and filmmaker and now author, Dean Manning.

The discarded suitcase that unearthed a mystery – and an obsession

When musician Dean Manning found an old suitcase on a Sydney nature strip, it kick-started a years-long obsession about the owner’s true identity.

  • Michael Dwyer

Looking for a new book? Here are 10 recent releases

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

  • Cameron Woodhead and Steven Carroll
SpaceX’s mega rocket booster returns to the launch pad to be captured during a test flight in Boca Chica, Texas, on Sunday (Monday AEDT)

A terrifying tour of Silicon Valley’s deluded plans for a techno-utopia

Science journalist Adam Becker investigates the visions of the tech billionaires and their vision of an AI dominated future ... in space.

  • Pat Sheil
Rytual is Chloe Elizabeth Wilson’s debut novel.

A dark satire of girlboss feminism and the cult of beauty

Chloe Elisabeth Wilson’s debut novel takes place inside a hipster cosmetics company in Melbourne.

  • Jessie Tu
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Author and political commentator Molly Jong-Fast.

Erica Jong is a feminist icon, but to her daughter she’s ‘an alcoholic narcissist’

Molly Jong-Fast has written a moving, but searing portrait of growing up with a “fame hungry” celebrity mother.

  • Nathan Smith

Here are 10 new books to add to your reading pile

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

  • Cameron Woodhead and Fiona Capp
Looking for your next crime fix?

Looking for your next crime fix? Here are four novels by local authors

As different as these books are, be assured you are in experienced hands and perhaps inspired to discover what came before.

  • Sue Turnbull

How Joe Biden’s inner circle lied about the president’s mental state

Journalists Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson have written a damning account suffused with relentless agony, writes Bruce Wolpe.

  • Bruce Wolpe

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