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The summer break is a great time to catch up on those books you've been meaning to read, but haven't got around to. Here are CityMag's recommendations based on our favourites for the year.

Join bestselling Melbourne author Sally Hepworth at the 11th Newcastle Writers Festival in April. Explore her latest book 'The Soulmate' and enjoy a star-studded lineup of 125 writers.

We asked writers from Australia and overseas to tell us which books had knocked their socks off in the past year.

We asked writers from Australia and overseas to tell us which books had knocked their socks off in the past year.

We asked writers from Australia and overseas to tell us which books had knocked their socks off in the past year.

Stone Yard Devotional is a chronicle of a huge problem in our time: the sense of futility in all our efforts to amend. By Juliette Hughes

Our books columnist delves into an eclectic selection this month: two excellent new literary novels by Charlotte Wood and Lucy Treloar set in isolated rural Australia, the moving life story of ‘The Fonz’, and Kaz Cooke’s companion to menopause.

The narrator of Charlotte Wood’s new novel has shed her life to live with nuns. The world intrudes in the form of COVID, a mouse plague and recovered bones, delivered by someone from her past.

US President Joe Biden says his defence department believes the airstrike that killed 471 Palestinians doesn't seem to have come from Israel.

As Charlotte Wood was writing her latest book, she got cancer. As did her two sisters. But the acclaimed novelist is determined that her work is not despairing