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- I've long been a fan of the celebrated American author George Saunders so this new novel was a must read.  - Much like his previous nove...

- Celebrated Australian novelist Michael Robotham has just released The White Crow , his nineteenth. - I've read a few of his crime thrill...

- This is a debut novel from a young Black American gay writer. It's about the challenges the narrator and his friends constantly face jus...

- This short book by former Economist and Financial Times journalist, Philip Coggan, is a masterful demolition of Trump's obsession wit...

- This Australian novel is an absolutely absorbing read. It's a political drama set in Canberra, Hong Kong and Beijing. A little congested...

- Careful, I thought…is this going to be like those old anti-internet books of the 1990's? Thankfully, it's absolutely not! It calls out the...

- Celebrated Australian literary author James Bradley has written a highly dramatic and very intense story about a police investigation into...

- This is a depressing read, because it’s profoundly realistic.  - Let's not kid ourselves. Where the world is now, and where it inevitabl...

- This novel gets clotted with so much detail as it progresses you can’t help but be bogged down. It's 452 pages long and 100 pages could ...

- This novel by Booker Prize-shortlisted author David Szalay (pronounced So-LOY) was highly recommended by well-regarded literary critic P...

- It’s 1996. The wealthy Gulch family live in a mansion in the very up-market enclave of Belle Haven in Connecticut.  - The successful cor...

- Australian author Andrea Goldsmith has written an extraordinary novel. It's a microscopic examination of love, literature, religion and ...

- This is a superb, thoroughly enlightening read. Beinart, in this short book, digs deep into the Israel-Palestine conflict and clarifies ...

- This novel by acclaimed journalist Omar El Akkad, who was born in the Middle East and raised in Canada and the US, is an extremely power...

- Colum McCann's novels are always worth reading. He tells big stories full of big characters and fills them with ruminations about virtua...

- This is an extraordinarily powerful book. Omar El Akkad is an author and journalist. He was born in Egypt, grew up in Qatar, moved to Ca...

- Prize-winning Australian author Diana Reid's third novel once again focuses on personal and family relationships and their intricate dyn...

- This is a delightful story of a sad, lonely, middle-aged man who gets hooked on movies. He sees a movie every night at the British Film ...

- This newly translated novel by 2024 Nobel prizewinner Han Kang is a frequently strange but in the end mesmerising tale of death,  vulnerab...

- This new book by celebrated Indian political essayist Pankaj Mishra is a masterpiece. It is so incredibly enlightening, thought-provokin...