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Geordie WilliamsonChief Literary Critic

An anthology of short stories from some of our best-known writers interrogates the Australian self.

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.