You witness a particular kind of squirm in the seat when the storyteller becomes the story.
Candice Fox is in top form in her latest solo outing.
Haruki Murakami,at 72,has not lost his fascination with the absurd. Take,for example,the talking monkey,who’s mellowed with age but is now offering back scrubs. In his latest collection of short stories,the Japanese fiction writer takes his familiar motifs to new territory.
Former federal minister Kate Ellis’ account of sexism and misogyny in the corridors of power is timely and damning.
Olivia Sudjic revisits Sarajevo after the Balkans war and the ongoing trauma for a young woman.
After publishing two books of poetry,Chloe Wilson’s short stories are collected in Hold Your Fire.
Emily Maguire follows up her Miles Franklin-shortlisted An Isolated Incident with a novel about the poorly understood behaviour of hoarding.
Sam van Zweden’s bite-sized essays dissect eating and the moral properties attached to what we choose to swallow.
The WA writer’s book about whales has been shortlisted for the Stella Prize as the NSW Premier’s awards announce its shortlists and Australian writers dominate a British prize for historical fiction.
Staff are hoping that the Melbourne chain will become the first in the country to negotiate an enterprise bargaining agreement.
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi follows her exploration of masculinity in Uganda with a look at womanhood.