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Making the private public: ‘The Seventies’ by Michelle Arrow
This new history traces how the decade’s redefined politics shaped modern Australia
Tracking time: Gerald Murnane’s ‘A Season on Earth’
Forty years on, the author’s second novel is reunited with its lost half
Rats, heroes and Kevin Rudd’s ‘The PM Years’
This memoir answers some questions about his deposal and return but raises others
‘Zebra and Other Stories’ by Debra Adelaide
Difficult-to-grasp characters populate this new collection
Welcome to The Summer Library: selected extracts from the best new books this summer
Welcome to The Summer Library: selected extracts from the best new books this summer
Shaping the senseless with stories: Beatriz Bracher’s ‘I Didn’t Talk’
An unreliable narrator reckons with the lasting impact of Brazil’s military regime
Fair judgement without surrender: Chloe Hooper’s ‘The Arsonist’
The author of ‘The Tall Man’ tries to understand the motivations of a Black Saturday firebug
Reflections on weddings after the legislation of marriage equality – an extract
‘Normal People’ by Sally Rooney
This Booker Prize–longlisted examination of human nature is simply moving