Review: March by Geraldine Brooks

A novel that fills in a literary absence – and opens others.

Review: A History Of Dreams by Jane Rawson

A witty and delightful novel about fighting evil.

Review: The Dictionary Of Lost Words by Pip Williams

A novel about who defines the words that define us.

Review: The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr.

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

Review: The Light Years by Elizabeth Jane Howard

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

Review: The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste

An ambitious novel about war and memory.

Review: The Adventures Of China Iron by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara (translated by Fiona Mackintosh and Iona Macintyre)

Lesbians! Cowboys! Argentina!

Review: A Treacherous Country by K. M. Kruimink

A strange and misty novel set in colonial Van Diemen’s Land.

Review: Stone Sky Gold Mountain by Mirandi Riwoe

Stone Sky Gold Mountain offers a rearranging of Australian history, reminding us other settlers were also here in the early days.

Review: Half Of A Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

A story of love and war in Nigeria in the 1960s, Half Of A Yellow Sun reaches outwards through history.