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Fiona Wright

Fiona Wright’s book of essays, Small Acts of Disappearance, won the 2016 Kibble Award and the Queensland Literary Award for non-fiction, and her poetry collection, Knuckled, won the 2012 Dame Mary Gilmore Award. She has recently completed a PhD at Western Sydney University’s Writing & Society Research Centre, and is the CAL New Writer-in-Residence at UTS.

June 2026

  • Composite image of Australian author Sharon Kernot alongside the cover of Night Swimming, out via Text Publishing

    Australian book reviews
    Night Swimming by Sharon Kernot review – a sharp, sexy and tremendously satisfying thriller in verse

    As in Dorothy Porter’s The Monkey’s Mask, the form is perfectly suited to the story: of a sleep-deprived woman unravelling as she’s haunted by her past

April 2026

  • Book-review-comp Sororicidal by Edwina Preston

    Australian book reviews
    Sororicidal by Edwina Preston review – a tale of two sisters tinged with danger

  • The best Australian books out in April.

    Bookmark this
    A feud ‘straight out of Succession’, a rental thriller and an ‘absolute ripper’: the best Australian books out in April

February 2026

  • Age of Inheritance

    Full Story
    The Sunday read: Fiona Wright on waiting for your parents to die to own a home

    Podcast05:50
  • Two elderly people sat on a stack on cash with a clock overlaid.

    The Age of Inheritance
    We joke that to afford a home in Australia we must wait for our parents to die. It feels like a deal with the devil

    Fiona Wright

October 2025

  • Composite image showing author Heather Rose and the cover of her book, A Great Act of Love.

    Australian book reviews
    A Great Act of Love by Heather Rose review – a compelling, complex tale of convict Australia

    The Stella prize-winning author turns to historical fiction in a novel inspired by a discovery in her own family mythology

June 2025

  • ‘Childlessness is one fact among many’ in Lucy Nelson’s book Wait Here.

    Australian book reviews
    Wait Here by Lucy Nelson review – stories of childless women that are complex and wonderfully varied

  • A composite of all book covers mentioned

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    ‘Deliciously addictive’, ‘dripping with suspense’: the best Australian books out in June

April 2025

  • Composite image featuring covers of 11 books: Landfall by James Bradley, Unsettled by Kate Grenville, I Ate the Whole World to Find You by Rachel Ang, The Nightmare Sequence by Omar Sakr and Safdar Ahmed, Pocket Pickler by Alex Elliott-Howery, Out of the Woods by Gretchen Shirm, Human/Nature by Jane Rawson, The Passenger Seat by Vijay Khurana, The Sun Was Electric Light by Rachel Morton, The Confidence Woman by Sophie Quick, Orpheus Nine by Chris Flynn

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    ‘Blood-pumping’, ‘outstanding’, ‘urgent and essential’: the best Australian books out in April

  • Composite image of Orpheus Nine by Chris Flynn book review Guardian Australia.

    Australian book reviews
    Orpheus Nine by Chris Flynn review – this unsettling novel is utterly compelling

August 2024

  • Composite image: Author Fiona McFarlane (left) wearing a striped top; the book cover for Highway 13, featuring a flock of birds flying across a forest-hemmed highway.

    Australian book reviews
    Highway 13 by Fiona McFarlane review – atmospheric stories linked by a murderer’s crimes

    McFarlane’s lyrical follow-up to The Sun Walks Down explores the reverberations of violence, and the stories we tell about crime

May 2024

  • Cher Tan and book Peripathetic composite

    Australian book reviews
    Peripathetic by Cher Tan review – essays on punk, work and the internet are incredibly good fun

  • Best books column composite. From left to right: 12 Rules for Strife by Jeff Sparrow and Sam Wallman, Ghost Cities by Siang Lu, Ela! Ela! by Ella Mittas, Only the Astronauts by Ceridwen Dovey, A Very Secret Trade by Cassandra Pybus, Peripathetic by Cher Tan, Safe Haven by Shankari Chandran and All the Beautiful Things you Love by Jonathan Seidler.

    Bookmark this
    ‘My favourite book of the year so far’: the best Australian books out in May

April 2024

  • Composite for The Pyramid of Needs by Ernest Price

    Australian book reviews
    The Pyramid of Needs by Ernest Price review – a wickedly funny take on wellness

    This excellent debut novel follows a weary son who clashes over his gender transition with his elderly mother, a supplement devotee hellbent on becoming an influencer

December 2023

  • Composite of book covers for the best of 2023: Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder, Anam by Andre Dao, Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright, Question 7 by Richard Flanagan, The In-Between by Christos Tsiolkas, I'd Rather Not by Robert Skinner, Gunflower by Laura Jean McKay and Unfinished Woman by Robyn Davidson

    Australia year in review 2023
    The 25 best Australian books of 2023: Richard Flanagan, Alexis Wright, Robyn Davidson and others

    Just in time for your Christmas shopping: Guardian Australia’s critics and staff pick out the best of the best

October 2023

  • Book of the month. Top row from left to right: Edenglassie by Melissa Lucashenko, The Year I Met My Brain by Matilda Boseley, Late by Michael Fitzgerald, 7 Days of Dinner by Adam Liaw and Killing for Country, by David Marr. Bottom row: Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood, Unfinished Woman by Robyn Davidson, Home to Biloela by Priya Nadesalingam with Rebekah Holt, Gunflower by Laura Jean McKay and The Man Who Wasn’t There by Dan Box.

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    ‘Ballsy’, ‘very funny’, ‘read in one sitting’: the best Australian books out in October

  • Composite image of author Charlotte Wood alongside the cover of her book Stone Yard Devotional

    Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood review – a masterful novel of quiet force

August 2023

  • Composite image with Australian author Angela O'Keeffe and the book cover of The Sitter

    The Sitter by Angela O’Keeffe review – separating the wife from the artist

    This compelling and playful novel is narrated from beyond the grave by Marie-Hortense Fiquet Cézanne, wife and frequent subject of the French painter

December 2022

  • A composite graphic of book covers: This Devastating Fever by Sophie Cunningham; An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life by Paul Dalla Rosa; Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au; We Come With This Place by Debra Dank; Bedtime Story by Chloe Hooper; A Brief Affair by Alex Miller; and Harold Holt by Ross Walker

    Summer essentials
    The 25 best Australian books of 2022: Chloe Hooper, Alex Miller, Jessica Au and more

    Just in time for your Christmas shopping: Guardian Australia’s critics and staff pick out the best of the best

October 2022

  • Composite image for a review of Diana Reid's book Seeing Other People, out October 2022 through Ultimo Press

    Australian book reviews
    Seeing Other People by Diana Reid review – twentysomethings grapple with what it means to love

    After the success of Love and Virtue, Reid returns with an intelligent and ambitious novel which takes its young characters seriously
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