Debra Oswald The Family Doctor

This debut novel from the creator of Offspring is a page-turner that asks a diabolical question.

Paula is a dedicated suburban GP devastated by the murder of her friend Stacey and her children by their estranged husband and father. What could she have done to protect them? Why didn’t she see this coming? When the opportunity arises to prevent one of her patients enduring violence at the hands of her husband, Paula must make a choice between following the rules and preventing a tragedy.

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin

Michael Fitzgerald Pietà

At St Peter’s Basilica in Rome, Lucy, a young Australian woman, looks up at Michelangelo’s Pietà. She has come with a mysterious parcel her recently deceased mother has asked her to bring to the box marked Poste Vaticane.

‘…a timely meditation on art icons, iconoclasm and the mysteries of love and time.’ – Gail Jones

Courtesy of Transit Lounge

Chloe Wilson Hold Your Fire

Chloe Wilson’s debut collection of stories embraces family warfare, peculiarly commanding neighbours, sisters obsessed with detoxification, and a leopard glimpsed in the apartment next door.

‘Chloe Wilson’s stories are spooky, profound, thrilling, hilarious and unbelievably beautiful … I want to read everything she’s ever written …’ – Anna Funder

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Robert Horne The Glass Harpoon

When Matthew Larkin comes to South Australia in 1842, he seems an unlikely candidate for life on the frontier. Reviewer Ben Ford Smith wrote of Robert Horne’s novel: ‘… the racial attitudes of colonial Europeans are both familiar and alien, reprehensible and compassionate. The book achieves a subtlety and nuance that a more didactic novel could not sustain, to speak of the discomfiting truth at the dark heart of white Australia.’

You can read the full review here.

Courtesy of Ginninderra Press