SOCIETY City Life: The New Urban Australia Sean O'Hanlon New South, $34.99 The major cities under enormous growth pressures are […]

I find it prudent to suspect everyone just a little: Agatha Christie was an expert on the law and on […]

Passion and pain of a piano maestro: Schumann wrote some of the world’s most romantic music, despite a life dogged […]

POETRY An Open Book David Malouf University of Queensland Press, $29.95 It's not always remembered by readers of David Malouf's […]

Fiction Love Is Blind Scottish author William Boyd creates parallels and interactions that give a rich texture to Love is […]

Lauren Oliver is keeping pretty busy. The best-selling YA author, best known for titles like Before I Fall, just published her […]

Anna Burns has won the prestigious Man Booker prize for fiction with Milkman, a vibrant, violent story about men, women, […]

Heavy lives up to its name. With extraordinary craft and pain, Kiese Laymon’s stark memoir chronicles one man’s scarring journey into […]

Tim Fischer is a former leader of the National Party, deputy prime minister, and author of five books. His sixth, […]

On a desolate island, three sisters have been raised in isolation, sequestered from an outbreak that is causing women to […]