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Richard Flanagan's ‘Question 7’

A slim volume of big ideas that takes in H.G. Wells, chain reaction, Hiroshima and the author’s near-death experience on the Franklin River

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Animal form: Sigrid Nunez

The celebrated American author’s latest book, ‘The Vulnerables’, completes a loose trilogy of hybrid autobiographical and fictional novels

Ningaloo, Western Australia

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Writing in nature

The laureate of the Western Australian surf break sees a task ahead for our essayists, our novelists and our poets alike in the fight against climate catastrophe

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Christos Tsiolkas’s ‘The In-Between’

The latest from the acclaimed Australian author throws scorn at those who claim virtue and the complete control of their desires

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M. John Harrison’s ‘Wish I Was Here’

The uncategorisable English author delivers an ‘anti-memoir’ meditating on the profound relationships between memory, imagination and fiction

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Ia Genberg’s ‘The Details’

The four young characters of the Swedish author’s slender volume grippingly embody everyday life, its enduring relationships and its anxieties

Robyn Davidson in Ghanerao, Rajasthan, circa 1990, walking witha a camel and three women

An open heart: Robyn Davidson’s ‘Unfinished Woman’

The author of ‘Tracks’ takes stock in middle age, in a memoir encompassing her mother’s tragic early death, mental health, and her relationship with Salman Rushdie

Cover o fYanis Varoufakis’s book ‘Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism’

Yanis Varoufakis’s ‘Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism’

The economist and author’s latest book considers how 21st-century capitalism resembles feudalism, and offers an alternative

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Zadie Smith’s ‘The Fraud’

The acclaimed English writer’s latest book employs its 19th-century setting to interrogate the form of the novel

Detail of the cover of the first issue of The Phantom, published September 1948

Purple reign: The 75th anniversary of ‘The Phantom’

The longevity of the world’s first costumed superhero reflects an Australian publishing success story