Geordie Williamson

Geordie WilliamsonChief Literary Critic

Michael Aiken’s work is closer to the comic-book universe than William Blake’s Romantic-era cosmology.

Rick Morton wrestles with a dark inheritance in his funny, tragic account of growing up in outback Australia.

Roaring into town on a stolen Harley-Davidson, whippet-thin in solid black boots, Kerry Salter is cut from different cloth.

Two writers with hands-on experience explore the changing relationship between human beings and farm animals.

Trent Dalton’s debut is a catalogue of bad news, yet in thrall to the potential the world holds for lightness and love.

For Bri Lee, the police and the entire criminal justice system are doing the wrong job and protecting the wrong people.

This lovely, sad, luminous memoir meets the challenge of holding the brokenness grief creates without becoming broken oneself.

Happiness is not so much a hybrid work as one where the novel’s human preoccupations are shadowed by pure animality.

Philip Roth was the last major male figure in a generation of Jewish American writers — Salinger, Mailer, Bellow and Heller.

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