These stories range widely across different experiences of disability, and question why disabled people must always be the ones to adapt to the world. In her introduction to this remarkable collection of personal essays, Carly Findlay writes that...
Craig Munro examines the author-editor relationship through the lives of four Australian editors. Like most editors, sometimes I wish that I had a whip that I could use with authors. However, as Craig Munro demonstrates in his engaging tour through...
Set in wartime London, Rebecca Starford’s debut novel brings a true story of espionage to life. When I was halfway through this book I discovered, by accident, that it is based on real wartime espionage that occurred in London between 1939...
Subtitled ‘A lifelong love affair with the most subtle and sophisticated game known to humankind’ Ramachandra Guha’s memoir explores one man’s multiple connections with cricket, from boyhood fandom to clear-eyed assessments of the state of the...
Douglas Stuart’s Booker Prize-winning debut shows the human cost of elevating the economy over society. Shuggie Bain is set in post-Thatcher Glasgow among people who are doing it hard. Many who worked in the mines and associated industries...
Maria Dahvana Headley’s new translation of Beowulf makes the most of the story’s female characters, and isn’t afraid to say ‘Bro’. Beowulf is one of the oldest pieces of English literature, an epic story of a great...
