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Australian books

June 2026

  • Tall wet eucalypt forest also called wet sclerophyll.

    double quotation markCan trees boost our creativity? My daily forest walks have changed how I write

    Ilka Tampke
  • Holocaust songbook composite

    A priceless book of Yiddish songs from the Holocaust lay in a Sydney cupboard for decades – now it has been rescued

  • Bookmark composite for June featuring: No God But Us, Night Swimming, The Northern Tomb, At Sea, Krank Fuss, Wormhole, Angertainment, Smoke, Rice, Water and How to Love the World

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    Best Australian books out in June: a buzzy novel, gripping nonfiction and an extremely unusual debut

  • Author Ellena Savage and her novel The Ruiners

    Australian book reviews
    The Ruiners by Ellena Savage review – a playful and subversive take on Great Expectations

May 2026

  • Anti-capitalist protesters attack the McDonald’s in Whitehall, central London, in May 2000

    ‘In a crowd, it feels good when we do bad to our enemies’: how anger becomes contagious

  • Yassmin Abdel-Magied photographed on her walk with the Guardian in east London

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    Yassmin Abdel-Magied: ‘I can be someone new here; I can choose who I want to be’

  • Australian book review composite featuring Capture by Amanda Lohrey.

    Australian book reviews
    Capture by Amanda Lohrey review – a superb novel about a study of alien abductees

  • A still from the Australian film Birthright. Birthright is set against the housing crisis in Australia that makes it very difficult for young people to purchase their first home. Cory and his pregnant wife Jasmin are moving out of their rental property and into a home on the outskirts of the city owned Cory's parents Richard and Lyn.

    The great Australian nightmare: how the housing crisis inspired a wave of brutal – and funny – pop culture

  • double quotation markSaint Tony wants to slay the dragon – but is blind to the beasts of Australia’s past

    Ben Doherty

  • Zeno Sworder’s hopeful and poetic Once I Was a Giant wins book of the year at Australian industry awards

  • Australian book reviews
    Phantom Days by Angela O’Keeffe review – a rich, lyrical story told through the ‘eyes’ of a book

  • ‘A book that should be read by all Australians’: Clare Wright wins book of the year at the NSW Literary awards

  • double quotation markIllness narratives are broken – and they’re failing women like me

    Emma Hardy

  • Australian book reviews
    Songwriters on the Run by Robert Forster review – Go-Betweens frontman hits a dud note

  • Stella prize 2026: Lee Lai becomes first non-binary person and first graphic novelist to win with Cannon

  • ‘One of the greatest invisible tragedies’: is the loss of childhood imagination inevitable?

  • Australian book reviews
    Goodbye, My Love by Yumna Kassab review – biting reflections on the dissolution of a marriage

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    Best Australian books out in May: Robert Forster’s crime caper, a ‘superb’ new novel and Periodic Bitch

  • Shaken staff and an author exodus: how a picture book plunged an acclaimed Australian publisher into a crisis over antisemitism

April 2026

  • 'A Rising of the Lights' by Steve Toltz, Published by Penguin Books, $34.99

    Australian book reviews
    A Rising of the Lights by Steve Toltz review – a darkly funny take on the male loneliness epidemic

    A miserable misogynist is on a quest for redemption in Toltz’s fourth novel, which fizzes with dynamic prose but struggles to engender empathy for its protagonist
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