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The raw, moving reality check Australian fiction needs
1+ day, 23+ hour ago (241+ words) September 11, 2026 — 11:11am The world chronicled in Max Easton’s Now, Autonomy is both familiar and foreign. Set in Sydney’s inner west, the novel is peppered with local landmarks and place names: Newtown, Homebush, Parramatta Road, Central Station, Hyde Park, the QVB, the…...
Blood, lies and cartels: Five new crime books to read this month
2+ day, 6+ hour ago (453+ words) The noir label has been tenuously attached to all manner of crime fiction of late. But rather than being identified by a landscape (think rural or outback noir), or geography (Nordic noir), or even a setting (domestic noir), the real…...
The five new books to read this summer
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (35+ words) SMH.com.au National books editor Melanie Kembrey has rounded up the best new books to read this summer. Updated September 10, 2026 — 2:17pm,first published 11:25am...
Blanche d’Alpuget dies: The glittering literary career behind Australia’s most famous affair
3+ day, 21+ hour ago (1190+ words) September 9, 2026 — 1:58pm She wrote Australia’s best-selling political biography, won glittering prizes, had a novel made into film and was portrayed in a television soap opera, but her most public role was playing the woman who waited for the man she loved....
"I Devoured It": 21 Books That People Say Are The Absolute Best Reads Of 2026 (So Far)
6+ day, 13+ hour ago (20+ words) Discover 21 must-read books of 2026 that readers couldn't put down. Find your next page-turner from this list....
Want to see the Lowcountry through the eyes of one of its prolific writers? This book shows how
1+ week, 16+ hour ago (592+ words) Pat Conroy’s eyes were opened to the majesty of the Lowcountry riding in Gene Norris’s Buick. That was one of many ways his Beaufort High School English teacher introduced the young writer Conroy to a world that he never knew…...
Sorry, Jane Austen, but these Australian novels had us at hello
1+ week, 2+ day ago (422+ words) September 3, 2026 — 4:00pm Thanks to Netflix, yet another Pride and Prejudice adaptation is coming our way. Bonnets and Bennets will again infect the zeitgeist, not that we had a real break. We live in a wretched state of perma-Austen. Breaks are hallucinations…...
Hawking. Keating. And maybe Natalie Portman: New books this month
1+ week, 5+ day ago (63+ words) smh.com.au September marks the start of the bumper Christmas season, when publishers release a huge crop of books from big names and small. Here are 18 of the many new titles out this month, with loads more to look…...
Why this Perth author’s fifth book was her most difficult to write yet
1+ week, 6+ day ago (586+ words) August 30, 2026 — 5:15pm Family history and a dark revelation shape West Australian author Tess Woods’ fifth book – and that was just in the writing process. Woods takes readers back to her Egyptian roots and to the foot of the famous pyramids in…...
This thinly veiled fiction is a hit job on actress Natalie Portman. That’s the point
2+ week, 6+ hour ago (1113+ words) August 30, 2026 — 5:00am Works of fiction often come with a legal boilerplate disclaimer inside the front cover: “any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental”. Not so the latest novel by Rachel Cusk, the Anglo-American author who reinvented autofiction…...