The controversial author of Atomised sets his new – and possibly last – novel in the world of French politics. In Annihilation, Michel Houellebecq scaffolds a political thriller in order to mourn the decay of Western European life.

Martine Kropkowski’s debut crime fiction delves into the devastating consequences of the epidemic of violence against women. Melissa, Bridie and Cassandra are friends, bonded over the sorts of things that connect young mothers – pressure, expectation, exhaustion and...

Dec 19, 2024 · TIM WINTON Juice. Reviewed by Robert Goodman. The opening of Tim Winton’s new novel Juice cannot help but put readers in mind of Cormac McCarthy’s seminal work The Road.A man, possibly an ex-soldier, and a young girl travel in …

Tim Winton’s new novel dives into a post-climate-change world where violence seems the only solution. The opening of Tim Winton’s new novel Juice cannot help but put readers in mind of Cormac McCarthy’s seminal work The Road.A man, possibly an ex-soldier, and a young girl travel in a vehicle across a blasted future landscape:

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Oct 3, 2024 · These two new crime thrillers from Australian writers Anna Downes and Lisa Kenway bring fresh takes to the genre. Writers groups are an increasingly popular way for new and established novelists to workshop and complete their manuscripts.

Amanda Lohrey The Labyrinth. Reviewed by Linda Godfrey. This book’s epigraph is ‘The cure for many ills, noted Jung, is to build something.’ In Part One of this novel, the main character, Erica Marsden, has many ills: she has a son in prison for manslaughter; she has memories of her dead parents, her abandonment as a child by her mother, and …

Evie Wyld The Bass Rock. Reviewed by Linda Funnell. The Bass Rock opens with a small girl, who we will shortly meet as the grown-up Viv, finding the body of a woman in a suitcase on the beach.As her mother cries, ‘Come away, come away,’ the child sees inside the suitcase … [This is] an absorbing, and disturbing, account of three women’s lives and the …

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