The letters between Charles and Barbara Blackman capture a decade in Australia’s cultural life.
The protagonist of Malcolm Knox’s new novel is an old chum of Lavrentiy Beria,one of the most sadistic of Stalin’s colleagues.
Our reviewers cast their eyes over recently published fiction and non-fiction.
Christopher Isherwood is best known as the creator of the Berlin stories that were turned into the play,musical and film,Cabaret. But there was more to his life than that.
September marks the beginning of the peak publishing season. Here is a selection of the novels coming from here and overseas in the next couple of months.
J.P. Pomare’s latest crime novel uncovers the role racism plays in the criminal justice system.
When Mark Baker writes about the operational activities of the men who sank the Tirpitz,his book really flies.
When Gideon Haigh’s brother died he was utterly bereft. Now he has written about how the tragedy changed his life.
Yves Rees’ book tells the story of 10 Australian women who left the country to find their way in early 20th-century America.
Sebastian Smee’s book looks at the wider influences on visual art that are not necessarily marked on the canvas.