One of eight excellent books recommended this week,Marco Missiroli’s novel is a subtle novel exploring fidelity in marriage and sexual relations.
Vivian Pham,KM (Kate) Kruimink and Jessie Tu are the pick of Australia’s novelists under 35.
Evie Wyld has won the $50,000 Stella for her novel about three women suffering at the hands of men.
Girls have been taught in a million ways that their needs,their rights and their safety are less important than the comfort of a man,writes Evie Wyld,this year’s winner of The Stella Prize.
‘I have so much language blood on my hands,’ says the author of the controversial Outline trilogy. Her new novel explores sex and power with a seductive set-up.
Critic and poet Alison Croggon’s essays explore her strained relationship with her sister and the legacy of her family’s role in the patriarchal history of the British empire.
All Yumiko Kadota wanted was to be a surgeon,but she didn’t bank on the discrimination,harassment and racism that would get in the way.
With these eight new books on the scene this week,you’re spoiled for choice – whether it’s important literature you’re looking for,or a light read.
The Australian novelist says social change is overdue but there are “a lot of wrongs being done in the name of justice”.
Randa Abdel-Fattah looks at how the attacks on New York nearly 20 years ago affected young Australians who grew up in their aftermath.
Jacqueline Maley’s first novel has at its heart a journalist whose story has prompted its subject to take her own life. And that’s just the start.