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Australian Gothic: Kelly Rimmer's The Story Keeper (The Midnight Estate)

Fiona Winslow has years of experience in conservation architecture, and her newest project needs her help badly. In 2010, she’s just purchased the ornate Victorian mansion called W...

Sanctuary

A thief finds she cannot outrun her past in this standalone thriller from one of Australia's most esteemed crime authors.

This unsettling novel will stay with you long after you finish it

In The Disappearing Act, exiled Russian author Maria Stepanova asks: how much daily brutality can we swallow before we lose ourselves entirely?

Short story, Chasing down the whale, by Susanna Elliffe

'There are more whales on the beach. Council can’t dig holes fast enough' The post

Tim Winton Wonders Why Nobody at Book Week Is Dressed as a Youngster Living in an Isolated Coastal Town Struggling To Fi...

Tim Winton, the acclaimed Australian author and bane of secondary English students, has expressed disappointment in this year’s turnout at a local Book Week parade after nobody dre...

Hunt | Aeesha Abdullahi Alhaji | Poetry

  (i) they had it finally in a grip. letting the dead lie, in the mist, in the boughs behind, their whispers were there and urging them on. tangling in the music of the beasts call...

Short story: Hide & seek, by Mel Johnston

The year's funniest short story, set in good old Bunnings Warehouse The post Short story: Hide & seek, by Mel Johnston appeared first on Newsroom.

The Palm House by Gwendoline Riley

Two friends in a pub by the Thames, a magazine falling into the wrong hands, and a chapter that will knock the wind out of you. Gwendoline Riley's eighth novel is the finest piece...

Under heavy skies, Alice Springs comes together to heal

The people of Alice Springs experienced a collective trauma, says Mayor Asta Hill, and it is time for healing.

Chills of the Unsaid

In its skewering of London’s literary egos, Gwendoline Riley’s The Palm House takes a step away from her previous parent-dominated novels, but it too is told by a middle-aged woman...

Helm by Sarah Hall audiobook review – a breath of fresh air from the Pennines

Louise Brealey teases out the playful and poetic moments of these shapeshifting stories, told from the perspective of the northeasterly wind and those it has wreaked chaos on throu...

The horses of Hastings

Review: Into the Storm

There is something undeniably compelling about a story where the greatest danger isn’t just the wilderness surrounding the characters, but the secrets and regrets they carry within...

Sunrise by Téa Obreht review – secrets and myths in the American west

Set across three interwoven timelines, this absorbing tale of an abandoned mining town explores courage, cowardice and how history is recordedTéa Obreht’s novels teem with conflict...

See-through house in the ‘scrubby bush’ ticks all the boxes

Review: Anna and Ben Wild have built their dream home at Bakers Beach, 80km from Launceston in Tasmania. Coastal Wonders pays a visit.

‘It took its toll’: The price Sherry-Lee Watson paid for her shot at acting success

The 27-year-old, who grew up on an outstation near Alice Springs before attending boarding school in Victoria, talks about starring in an Australian classic.