Australian lawyer, mum and war survivor Leila Chalk has drawn from her childhood experiences in war-torn Bosnia and her time spent in a detention camp in Northern Croatia to create what might be Australia’s first Isolati...

In his most familiar terrain, Tom Keneally takes historical figures and events and reimagines them with verve, compassion and humour to give us his latest novel, The Dickens Boy. In the late 1800s, rather than run the ri...

This generation’s Holding the Man, Shannon Molloy’s Fourteen is a moving coming-of-age memoir about a young man’s search for identity and acceptance in the most unforgiving and hostile of places: high school. This extrao...

Breath-taking and captivating, Jennifer Rosner’s The Yellow Bird Sings is a deeply affecting novel about the triumph of humanity and hope in even the darkest of circumstances. Poland, 1941. After the Jews in their ...