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

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

Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder return with an all-new (but still toxic) dynamic as they take on late-night TV.

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.

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

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

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

Using space as a stunt to recover from a failed album is just another nail in the coffin of the great black void’s reputation.

The New Zealander has written for others, appeared in films, done fundraisers, but he describes these ventures as “dream-adjacent.”