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‘Room for a Stranger’ by Melanie Cheng
The medico-writer delivers a novel driven less by storyline than accumulated observation
‘Who Killed My Father’ by Édouard Louis (trans. Lorin Stein)
Political rage fuels the French author’s account of a fraught father–son relationship
The desperate, secretive drama: ‘Choice Words’ edited by Louise Swinn
Personal stories consider questions of choice, legality and stigma surrounding abortion
The bestselling author delivers a nuanced examination of family tragedy
Consciousness is at the heart of the celebrated author’s body of work
Missing witnesses: Valeria Luiselli’s ‘Lost Children Archive’
The Mexican ‘documentary fiction’ writer delivers a polyphonic road trip
‘Unlike the Heart’ by Nicola Redhouse
Motherhood prompts a bracing interrogation of the human mind in this remarkable memoir
Making the private public: ‘The Seventies’ by Michelle Arrow
This new history traces how the decade’s redefined politics shaped modern Australia
Rats, heroes and Kevin Rudd’s ‘The PM Years’
This memoir answers some questions about his deposal and return but raises others
Tracking time: Gerald Murnane’s ‘A Season on Earth’
Forty years on, the author’s second novel is reunited with its lost half