Category: Fiction

Pachyderm is the second novel of Melbourne writer and musician Hugh McGinlay. As part of Daily Review‘s highlighting of work by self-published writers or those produced by small publishers, this novel is published by threekookaburras. McGinlay’s previous novel was Jinx and Pachyderm follows his characters milliner Catherine Kint and her best pal and barman Boris Shakovsky in another Melbourne crime caper. The

Sally Abbott’s debut novel Closing Down (Hachette Australia) imagines Australia in the near future. It’s an Australia in which climate change and its geo-political repercussions have wrought social breakdown in small communities across the country. Abbott will be at the Sydney Writers; Festival this week talking about the novel and she is included on the panel “It’s

Down the Hume is Peter Polites’ first novel. The publicity material succinctly describes it as “part noir, part melodrama, part queer and all Western Sydney”. Its publishers Hachette Australia also describe it as a book for those who like the writing of Christos Tsiolkas and Luke Davies. Polites lives in Western Sydney. In 2014 he

See What I Have Done is the taut and chilling debut novel of Melbourne writer Sarah Schmidt who returns to the infamous real life story of Lizzie Borden. On 4 August 1892 Andrew and Abby Borden were murdered in their home in Fall River, Massachusetts. During the inquest into the deaths, Lizzie Borden was arrested and charged