Review: Song Of The Crocodile by Nardi Simpson

Another unpredictable and unsettling novel from the latest flourishing of Aboriginal writing.

Review: The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr.

A tremendously rewarding novel about love in the cruellest of places.

A fascinating and ugly collection of poetry.

A riveting and passionate tale of intellectual inquiry into the origins of Polynesia.

The Light Years is the perfect novel for a society sleep-walking towards disaster.

An ambitious novel about war and memory.

The Fifth Sun is a fascinating, scholarly and moving portrayal of a people surviving colonisation.

A tale of despair, illness and poverty that captures the swooping highs and devastating lows of life.

A novel that does what it says, painting a portrait of an ambitious and charming young woman as she seeks to experience all life has to offer.

The books that have had the biggest impact on me this year.