WHAT TO READ NOW
Take a break with a selection of new books to read this month. Edited by Mia Cowling
In this illuminating book, award-winning writer Charlotte Wood shares the insights she has gained over a career paying close attention to her own mind, to the world around her and to the way she and others work.
Drawing on research and decades of observant conversation and immersive reading, Charlotte shares what artists can teach the rest of us about inspiration and hard work, how to pursue truth in art and life, and to find courage during the difficult times: facing down what we fear and keeping going when things seem hopeless.
This lyrical and devastating new novel from Emily Bitto, Stella Prize-winning author of The Strays, offers us startling and profound visions of the world and our place in it. Wild Abandon is a headlong tumble through the falling world of end-days capitalism, and a hyperreal snapshot of our own strange times.
A tribute to an extraordinary landscape now under severe threat. The exquisite photographs reveal the mountain ash forests of central Victoria to be one of Australia’s great natural treasures. The Great Forest is a tribute to extraordinary landscapes now under severe threat.
Prepare to be dazzled. Or, at the very least, befuddled. Wild, hilarious and thought-provoking, Puff Piece is a probing look into Big Tobacco and the vaping industry, and how words can be literally a matter of life and death.
A moving and heartwarming story about taking risks and finding a new lease on life, by the bestselling author of The Banksia Bay Beach Shack. Following the stories of Anne and Grace, they must move beyond trauma to heal the wounds of the past and secure the town’s future.
Three housemates. One dead, one missing and one accused of murder. Dubbed the Housemate Homicide, it’s a mystery that has baffled Australians for almost a decade. Melbourne-based journalist Olive Groves worked on the story as a junior reporter and became obsessed by the case. Now, nine years later, the missing housemate turns up dead on a remote property. Olive is once again assigned to the story, this time reluctantly paired with precocious millennial podcaster Cooper Ng.
The heartwarming new medical rural romance from the bestselling author of The Bush Telegraph. This is a moving and uplifting Australian drama about what it really means to be a community, and learning that best friends can also make the best family.