While there has been a renewed concentration of power in Russia,the country is nowhere near as oppressive as North Korea.
Educated is the story of how Tara survived her brutal childhood,but it is no revenge memoir. It is also a story about how love can survive in the face of cruelty.
Afterglow is American poet Eileen Myles'first attempt at memoir,and it is an unconventional one in every sense of the word.
There are many familiar faces and plenty of new ones in the shortlists for the Australian Book Industry Awards.
Because of her family's Mormon fundamentalism,Tara Westover had never been to school. And when she got an education it had a profound effect on her life.
Carmen Maria Machado's debut collection of stories are dizzying,disturbing,memorable and haunting.
Pachinko is an intergenerational narrative with the unputdownable quality of soap plus the satisfactions of prose that can disclose realities and a set of interconnected stories that mirror the movement of history.
The horrors witnessed by this former US Border Patrol agent – and his culpability – left him with nightmares and an urge to write.
As the ABC's court reporter Jamelle Wells has seen some extraordinary things and mixed with some horrible people.
Obsidio is a reminder that throughout The Illuminae Files,the driving force of the books are the characters
Eleanor Limprecht's third novel continues her preoccupation with family,this time a women and her granddaughter