Richard Ferguson The extraordinary memoir Reckoning is more than a look at the woman behind the laughs.
Thuy On Resurrecting Science looks at extinct species and the techniques we could use to bring them back. But why should we?
West Australian author Rachael Johns was an IGA supermarket owner-manager who wrote at night when she signed a five-book deal in 2014. She has published six best-selling rural romances and her new "life lit" novel, The Patterson Girls (Harlequin), is about sisters, love, infertility, infidelity and grief.
Take three
Jeff Popple Sue Grafton, Gayle Lynds and Lynda La Plante serve up three new crime novels.
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KAREN HARDY One Hundred Days of Happiness left such an impression on Karen Hardy that she took unusual steps to interview its author, Fausto Brizzi.
JK Rowling turns dark
J.K. Rowling's new crime novel is her most gruesome and realistic book to date.
Caroline Baum Robert Harris, unlike other thriller writers, feels no need to spice up the intrigue in his trilogy about Cicero with racy sex scenes.
Katherine Wilson In 10 intimate essays, Australian poet Fiona Wright meditates on her long-term addiction to controlled starvation.
Frances Atkinson Shaun Tan's talent is his ability to take everything from stick figures, to television sets and stir in readers fear, tenderness and curiosity.
Charlotte Wood Swinging between a sort of universe-embracing goddess of love and a no-nonsense Minnesotan farm wife, Elizabeth Gilbert is a tub-thumping evangelist for creativity.
Peter Pierce Rush Oh!, the first novel by screenwriter and director Shirley Barrett, is set in the world of 19th-century whalers and is a highly enjoyable and unusual yarn.
Richard King The problems begin with Brooks' definition of the problem The Road to Character purports to address: the problem of how to be less shallow, to mobilise our better selves in an effort to "confront the meaning of true fulfilment".
Cameron Woodhead Short reviews of fiction by Andrew Michael Hurley, Catherine Jinks, Tessa McWatt and Justin Cartwright.
Steven Carroll Short reviews of non-fiction by Greil Marcus, Trudy Toohill, Steve Harris and Timothy Morrell.
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