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Amanda Lohrey’s UFO novel captures the uncertainties of reason, doubt and belief

Amanda Lohrey’s Capture plays out as a sequence of conversations in strange rooms.

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

The Miles Franklin winner’s plot teeters on the edge of profound silliness, but it’s also a vehicle for making meaning of our lived experiences – and those of others

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Griefdogg by Michael Winkler review – a cryptic, beguiling tale about a man who turns into a dog

Winkler’s latest novel is ambitious, compelling and bleakly comic; it scratches a metaphysical itch you didn’t realise you had

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A wild girl considers land rights and community in Eva Hornung’s ‘utterly gripping’ new novel

Eva Hornung was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin for her last novel, The Last Garden. The one before that, Dog Boy, won the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction and is now a Text Classic, introduced by Yann Martel.

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The Mushroom Tapes review – Erin Patterson through the eyes of Helen Garner, Chloe Hooper and Sarah Krasnostein

This account of what the three authors observed during Patterson’s triple murder trial does resemble a podcast transcript at times, but it is extremely readable

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Mushroom tapes, erotic Greek myths and joyful Thai cooking: the best Australian books out in November

Each month Guardian Australia editors and critics pick the upcoming titles they have devoured – or can’t wait to get their hands on

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5 new Australian publishers are making defiant, weird, grass-roots books

In the past year or so, three Australian publishing mergers happened within a few short months. Text Publishing, Pantera Press and Affirm Press were all absorbed into a larger company. Once a company has shareholders, like Penguin Random House and Simon and Schuster (which acquired Affirm and Text), the business…

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Chameleon by Robert Dessaix review – a dazzlingly beautiful mix of sex, travel and intimacy

Blending biography and travelogue offers a rich and entertaining education about the author’s life – a detailed map of the literature, ideas and places that shaped him

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The acquisition of Text Publishing by Penguin Random House is part of a worrying trend in Australian publishing

Australia has been unique in the anglosphere for decades, as its independent publishers have resisted the forces of conglomeration and remained privately owned – often by their founders. But this week the third independent publisher in less than six months has merged with a multinational.

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The Season by Helen Garner – a ‘nanna’s book about footy’ from an Australian literary great

In her first book since This House of Grief, the author spends a season watching her grandson play Australian rules football. The scope may sound narrow but she is working in epic mode

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The Burrow by Melanie Cheng review – a tender, compelling story of family and grief

A small family tries to rebuild after an incomprehensible tragedy, in a pandemic-set novella that’s both skilful and restrained

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The Degenerates by Raeden Richardson review – ambitious debut pulses with life and language

A young woman grapples with the limits of storytelling and language to do justice to the lives of those on society’s fringes

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Security or self-sabotage? Exiled from their families, Shirley Hazzard and Elizabeth Harrower followed two very different writing paths

The publication of the letters between Australian writers Shirley Hazzard (1931-2016) and Elizabeth Harrower (1928-2020), edited by literary scholar Brigitta Olubas and journalist Susan Wyndham, provides a picture of mid-century life from the perspectives of two exemplary and, for too long in this country, underappreciated novelists.

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How diving as a boy took Tim Flannery on the trail of the megalodon in all its 'terrifying glory'

With Meg 2: The Trench currently showing in cinemas – its eponymous star looking unhelpfully like an oversized great white shark – megalodons are having another pop cultural moment.

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‘Exciting’, ‘bold’, ‘laugh out loud’: the best Australian books out in July

Each month, Guardian Australia editors and critics pick the upcoming titles they have already devoured – or can’t wait to get their hands on

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‘Sinister’, ‘bonkers’, ‘meta’: the best Australian books out in June

Each month, Guardian Australia editors and critics pick the upcoming titles they have already devoured – or can’t wait to get their hands on

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‘Candid’, ‘gripping’, ‘compulsory reading’: the best Australian books out in May

Each month, Guardian Australia editors and critics pick out the upcoming titles they’ve already devoured – or can’t wait to get their hands on

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Fat Girl Dancing by Kris Kneen review – the intimacies and indignities of living in a fat body

This radical, compelling and sometimes heartbreaking memoir asks: why do we make it so difficult for fat people to live in their bodies, in the world?

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‘Sensual’, ‘revelatory’, ‘delicious’: the best Australian books out in March

Each month, Guardian Australia editors and critics pick out the upcoming titles they’ve already devoured – or can’t wait to get their hands on

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‘Remarkable’, ‘gorgeous’, ‘entertaining’: the best Australian books out in November

Each month, Guardian Australia editors and critics pick out the upcoming titles they’ve already devoured – or can’t wait to get their hands on

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‘Funny’, ‘punchy, ‘a gorgeous writer’: the best Australian books out in October

Each month, Guardian Australia editors and critics pick out the upcoming titles they’ve already devoured – or can’t wait to get their hands on

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Akuch Kuol Anyieth: ‘When you grow up in mayhem, you have no choice but to be strong’

South Sudanese-Australian writer escaped conflict in her homeland, but the trauma that follows refugees is poorly understood

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Elizabeth Macarthur’s Letters, edited by Kate Grenville review – a fascinating dialogue

Grenville follows up her novel about the Australian settler with a collection of her actual letters, revealing a witty but elusive subject

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The best Australian books out in April: what we’re reading this month

At the beginning of each month, Guardian Australia editors and critics pick out the upcoming titles they’ve already devoured – or can’t wait to get their hands on

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