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From ‘proactive aggression’ to our ‘predilection’ for polygamy, an engaging study of the traits that have influenced civilisation I blame Yuval Noah Harari< […]

The contours of a relationship are echoed by the collapse of East Germany in this invigorating novel of lost loveJenny Erpenbeck’s Kairos is one of the bleakest a […]

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Tenmile. Sandra Dallas. 2022. [November] 240 pages. [Source: Library]First sentence: The baby stretched its arms and legs as Sissy wrapped it in the soft flannel […]

A survey of the last 100 years of financial disasters shows that they’re a fact of life – but there are lessons to be learnedFor those who pay close attention to […]

We’re thrilled to be joined by the four authors of our new Medical series, A Sydney Central Reunion. This quartet follows four resilient and talented women who […]

A teacher falls for the headmaster’s wife in a daring, atmospheric debutThe theme is enticing. A massive Sapphic crush at an elite girls’ boarding school, with las […]

Access to family papers sheds new light on the troubled singer-songwriter“Do you curse where you come from?” Nick Drake asks an imagined lover in his 1971 song Haz […]

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 Monster of the week 175 is BackEarly, oh so you don’t need me to house sit next week, no it’s fine, I’ll pack up it’s no problem I can do the monster of the week […]

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A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder. Holly Jackson. 2019. 433 pages. [Source: Library]First sentence: Pip knew where they lived. Everyone in Fairview knew where they […]

Unlike dogs, our feline friends are barely different from their wild ancestors – except for a few clever tricksFew people would mistake a wolf for a dog. But if y […]

A sonnet by a former schoolmate of Emily Dickinson is both a nature study and a reflection on the tangle of forces that govern human lifeThe silken threads by […]

This new collection of 70s journalism exposes a sexist and wrongheaded essayist with an unwarranted reputationIn her introduction to this pocket-sized new […]

A woman retreats to a forest in northern Italy in an immersive first novel that explores what it means to inhabit a female body yet reject femininityKathryn […]

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The journalist’s eye-wateringly honest account of searching for connection online is relatable, funny and wiseAs a child, Harriet Gibsone would spend hours s […]

In this heartfelt memoir, the columnist considers how a century-long commitment to human improvement inspired her familyPolly Toynbee’s great-grandfather Gilbert M […]

The journalist’s story of how his parents lived through the Holocaust reads like a thriller, but it’s the wider focus on how liberal values were powerless in the […]

Murray’s brilliant new novel, about a rural Irish clan, is pure pleasure and posits the author as Dublin’s answer to Jonathan FranzenIrish author Paul Murray mad […]