Fiction Archives

The Book of Summers - best read on a hazy warm afternoon on a verandah. With a box of tissues. And a ticket to Budapest in your back pocket. Read more

The latest Inspector Lynley mystery is just the kind of compulsive page-turner likely to keep you up way past your bedtime. Read more

Lauren Kate author of Fallen, Torment and Passion reveals The 5 best novels I read in 2011 are… The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente Twelve-year-old September lives in Omaha, and used to have an ordinary life, until her father went to war and her mother went to work. One day, September is met at her kitchen window by a Green Wind (taking th... Read more

Wendy Jones has written a surprisingly restrained and moving book. There are secrets which aren't pretty, there are shocks without sensationalism. This is a novel about duty, love, loss and responsibility and it deserves a very wide audience. Read more

Secrets and Lies is a series of eight modern classics with deception at their very core. Read more

With historical must-reads from Peter FitzSimons on Sir Douglas Mawson, to the brilliant fiction that is Elliot Perlman's The Street Sweeper, to highly anticipated autobiographies from cricket fast bowler Brett Lee and Tour de France Green Jersey winner Robbie McEwen you will have all your Christmas gifts covered Read more

What a cracker of an edition I have for you for December. How is this for a line-up? Gifts, give-aways and goodies to win include an amazing high quality Ken Duncan signed and numbered print valued at nearly $2,000 to be won by a purchaser of Australia: Our Island Paradise Read more

What I do get to do however, is to sample a LOT of books, and I get to fall in love with a few. And the few that take me to a different place, more than make up for the rest of the 450 on that list that made me want to go out and re-plant the trees. So here they are, my top picks for 2011, for those of you for whom Morrissey and Reilly just don't cut it. Read more

At the end of the day, once you finish The Freudian Slip you’ll most likely be asking yourself the same question that has been niggling at me since I flipped the last page. Where is my time machine? Read more

Charlotte Wood author of Animal People, The Children and more… reveals… The 5 best novels I read this year are… Read more