The bestselling author of the Witcher novels turns to history in The Tower of Fools, the first instalment of his latest epic series. Andrzej Sopkowski’s new historical fantasy trilogy is set in fifteenth-century Eastern Europe during the Hussite...
Katherine Brabon’s timely and thought-provoking second novel explores a phenomenon with resonances beyond its Japanese setting. There is a world we live in, on this side, and another world, achiragawa, [the other side] that is a place of...
Rachel Cusk’s 11th novel is touted as a return to plot and character; in the process it explores power, art and agency. Second Place is an epistolary novel comprising a series of letters written by M to a friend, Jeffers. She writes of her...
Michael Warner doesn’t hold back in this examination of the scandals that have beset the AFL over the past two decades. In professional sport teams compete not only with each other on the field, but also off the field for fans, sponsors and...
The author of Lexicon returns with a new novel of multiple murders and multiple worlds. ‘I hate that you make me do this’, he said, and even as she struggled, she could see that he did indeed look regretful, like a man forced to put down a pet dog,...
Save Our Sons and Radicals remind us that the anti-war protesters of the 1960s and 70s were many and varied, and so too were their campaigns. These two books canvass the decade 1965-75, during which the Vietnam War dominated political life in...
