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What we read in 2024: The year’s highest-selling books
Australian authors took out the top three spots, as our appetite for cookbooks and genre fiction remained insatiable.
- Melanie Kembrey
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This book cast a spell over generations. There’s magic in the film too
The movie adaptation of Alison Lester’s much-loved book leaves plenty of room for the imagination.
- Nick Galvin
New voices, old rivalries and Muriel too: holiday reads keep on coming
Our reviewers cast their eyes over eight new fiction and non-fiction releases.
- Cameron Woodhead and Steven Carroll
The internet doesn’t always like David Sedaris, not that he cares
The bestselling writer says the internet promised to make everybody smarter, and instead it’s made everybody “louder and dumber”.
- Thomas Mitchell
What drives Germany’s neo-Nazis? This masterful novel seeks answers
Bernhard Schlink took us inside the mind of an SS guard in The Reader. His latest work explores a modern country still shadowed by the past.
- Tom Ryan
Secrets, confessions and an autobiography that was supposed to be posthumous: Twelve new books for the new year
From a memoir by Caroline Darian, daughter of Gisèle Pelicot, to the new novel by a Miles Franklin winner, there’s plenty in store for book lovers this month.
- Jason Steger
This portrait of depression rivals Sylvia Plath at her most powerful
Reissued to mark the 100th anniversary of Janet Frame’s birth, The Edge of The Alphabet puts inner darkness into words.
- Jack Cameron Stanton
It was 60 bucks with glassed-in fins and my mum gave me half …
A brutal, salt-ridden learning curve for the young Markus Zusak was well worth it.
- Markus Zusak
Elvis hijacked this musician’s most famous song. He didn’t mind
Carl Perkins worked with – and inspired – some of the greatest names in rock’n’roll. So why is his own story so unsung?
- Michael Dwyer
The Pope has one, but what about Putin? This library book reveals all
Undercover or carried by camel, the world’s weirdest book depositories are hidden no more.
- Jane Sullivan
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