Helen Elliott

Charlotte Wood’s latest novel imagines a woman turning her back on her life in the search for something meaningful.

The Details (Hachette) is only 155 pages long, so I am committing it to memory. The details in these pages are my life, probably your life – zephyrs glancing through our skin moment by moment, so nuanced that we don’t notice. Swedish writer Ia Genberg has an idea about what that weird concept “self” is: “traces of the people we rub up against”.

Kate Mildenhall’s third novel displays a fearlessness in writing historical fiction of recent times that dissects class.

Marele Day’s memoir can’t quite work out what sort of story it’s telling.

The Australian author of ‘The Age of Fibs’ shares with Elena Ferrante and Annie Ernaux the desire to write truthfully of ordinary women’s lives

There’s more than enough truth in the opening paragraph of Infidelity and Other Affairs for an entire novel. But who gets to tell the damned truth?

There’s more than enough truth in the opening paragraph of Infidelity and Other Affairs for an entire novel. But who gets to tell the damned truth?

Stuart Kells’ crisp history of Melbourne University Publishing is a surprisingly intriguing read.

Stuart Kells’ crisp history of Melbourne University Publishing is a surprisingly intriguing read.

Stuart Kells’ crisp history of Melbourne University Publishing is a surprisingly intriguing read.