Part gothic melodrama, part national allegory, The White Earth is a sweeping story of history, politics, settlement and racism.

Nov 6, 2011 – Keith Lawrence

Secret Daughter is a brilliant novel that explores the lives of two mothers- one Indian, one American - and the adopted child who binds their fates.

Nov 3, 2011 – Amira Abozeid

By the end of the novel Sofia Petrovna finally accepts her son Kolya's fate and the reality of Stalin's purges.

Oct 31, 2011 – Enver Guseynov

Reading Fiction widens our sense of who we are and what is possible for us and others.

Oct 31, 2011 – Mary Desaulniers

Kenizé Mourad's new biographical novel "La Ville d'Or et d'Argent", published in French, Italian and Spanish, has not yet appeared in English.

Oct 28, 2011 – Valerie Wilson

Sofia Petrovna's naivety is a persistent theme throughout the course of the novel.

Oct 25, 2011 – Enver Guseynov

A pervading melancholy haunts this beautiful, elegaic tale of love, loss and sexuality.

Oct 22, 2011 – Keith Lawrence

Gentle and nuanced, the recipient of the 2011 Prime Minister's Award for Literature is oddly uninvolving.

Oct 17, 2011 – Keith Lawrence

One woman finds a way to support herself, her family and her community under the increasingly several restrictions of the Taliban in Afghanistan.

Oct 16, 2011 – Susan Whelan

A look at gender differences in the classic coming-of-age storyline.

Oct 11, 2011 – Megan Stuart

The subtitle of Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad is The True Story of an Unlikely Friendship, and these words sum up this non-fiction book to a tee.

Oct 9, 2011 – Vicki Sly

At the age of 25, Téa Obreht is the youngest winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction for her debut novel, The Tiger's Wife.

Oct 9, 2011 – Vicki Sly

Four very different protagonists search for self-awareness against a background of a racially-divided society.

Oct 7, 2011 – Isme Bennie

The master narrator found an ignored Latin America in the "unexpected alteration of reality" of her marvelous time warp.

Oct 4, 2011 – Egberto Almenas

From UK investment banker to Australian political advisor, Ruby Stanhope is trying to keep her life on track, one Louboutin-shod footstep after another.

Oct 2, 2011 – Susan Whelan

Sonya Hartnett's Sleeping Dogs is an award-winning young adult fiction title which explores the destructiveness of misguided and obsessive family loyalties.

Sep 28, 2011 – Sally Piper

Multi-award winning Australian author Sonya Hartnett is a writer who would rather push publisher boundaries than underestimate her readership

Sep 21, 2011 – Sally Piper

Hosokawa Yusai was the only samurai who asked for an armistice, in the middle of battle, to save an irreplaceable commentary and his poetry collection.

Sep 18, 2011 – Carmen Sterba

"...one Obsessive, the other Compulsive...They were different, and yet not ill-matched."

Sep 15, 2011 – Keith Lawrence

The most final of questions are asked with the greatest seriousness in The Death of Ivan Ilych.

Sep 14, 2011 – Jeff Cuttino