Our Team

Stephen Romei writes on books and films. He was formerly literary editor at The Australian and The Weekend Australian.

James Curran’s Unholy Fury is centred on the near-rupture in the 1970s of the Australian-American alliance.

Peter Edwards

It’s rare for the winner of a literary prize to be the unanimous choice of a judging panel.

a pair of ragged claws: stephen romei

They are still foul-mouthed, pot-smoking slackers, stuck on their couch, but Ted 2’s stars are not as funny this time.

Got tummy troubles? Feeling depressed? Microbiologist Giulia Enders wants to get to the bottom of our problems.

Karen Hitchcock

The digital era has transformed the way we share information — but also spawned widespread flouting of copyright laws.

Roy Williams

We should treasure the literary legacy of Glenville Pike, chronicler of forgotten places and abandoned time.

Nicolas Rothwell

Issues of migration, place and displacement are layered with poetic insight in Stephanie Bishop’s second novel.

Felicity Plunkett

Sofie Laguna scaled the heights of her third chosen profession when she won the $60,000 Award for The Eye of the Sheep.

Steven Carroll’s Forever Young is the fifth instalment in a series about a small and fractured Melbourne family.

Peter Pierce

The stories in John Kinsella’s Crow’s Breath are remarkable for their ability to condense whole worlds into a few short pages.

Fiona Wright