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The Pole and Other Stories explores familiar Coetzeean themes of love, death, ageing, art and human-animal interaction.

July's bookish newborns encompass everything from a look at the evolution of society's views on abortion to retirement advice.

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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Tara Calaby’s novel peeps into the interior lives of women in a 19th-century asylum and uses her historical imagination to generate new knowledge.

Five first-time nominees are among the six authors competing for $60,000 award for novels that ‘present Australian life in any of its phases’

Brenda Matthews’ story is a truth-seeking quest to right the wrongs perpetrated by a government hell-bent on doing ‘as they saw fit’ when it came to Aboriginal peoples, writes Sandra Phillips.

The womans face is in profile, her eyes looking into the distance – or the past, or the future. This is a quiet woman, a thoughtful one; possibly o

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

What do we do with the art of monstrous men? That’s the question posed by one of the books our columnist delves into this month. She also recommends two new Australian novels, and a searing examination of Gone with the Wind.