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‘The Rain Heron’ by Robbie Arnott
An unsettling near-future tale of soldiers hunting a mythic bird by “the Tasmanian Wordsworth”
‘Minor Detail’ by Adania Shibli (trans. Elisabeth Jaquette)
The Palestinian author’s haunting novel about an atrocity committed by Israeli soldiers in 1949
‘The End of October’ by Lawrence Wright
A ‘New Yorker’ journalist’s eerily prescient novel about public-health officials fighting a runaway pandemic
‘The Trials of Portnoy’ by Patrick Mullins
The finely detailed story of the legal fight in Australia against the censorship of Philip Roth’s ‘Portnoy’s Complaint’
‘Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982’ by Cho Nam-Joo (trans. Jamie Chang)
The coldly brilliant, bestselling South Korean novel describing the ambient harassment and discrimination experienced by women globally
‘Fathoms: The World in the Whale’ by Rebecca Giggs
The Australian writer’s lyrical consideration of our relationship with whales is a new and ambitious kind of nature writing
In a theatre setting, the masterly Irish writer considers the melting, capricious line between the truth and the fake
‘Strange Hotel’ by Eimear McBride
A woman unceasingly travels to contend with the inertia of grief, in the latest novel from the author of ‘A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing’
The Miles Franklin–winning author’s latest novel expands on her interest in the submission and consequential fury of women amid the impersonal natural world
A probing drama about Australia’s mandatory detention regime focuses on the dehumanisation experienced on both sides of the razor wire