Geordie Williamson

Geordie WilliamsonChief Literary Critic

Tsiolkas recalls an enduring truth: Patrick White is a prophet without honour in his own country and among his own kin.

Literature meets lived experience in Barry Hill’swide-ranging essays.

Gerald Murnane’s new short fiction melds his two earlier collections along with newer and sundry pieces.

With a near-feral boy and his thin repertoire of emotional responses, Tim Winton unpacks what it means to be a man in Australia.

There is a chilling relevance to Tim Winton’s new novel, The Shepherd’s Hut, about how society has failed its boys.

Competing memories of excavations uncovered in Ceridwen Dovey’s second novel illuminate a compelling archeology of souls.

Leigh Bruce ‘Tracker’ Tilmouth was one of those figures so larger-than-life that only the Top End could contain him.

Charles Massy’s cry from the heart about the destruction man can wreak is compulsive reading.

In a year where so many fantastic books have been published, it’s not easy to choose where to start. Our list will help.

Simon Leys was scholar and gentleman, and his life revealed the complex nature of such attributes.