'Exciting', 'bold', 'laugh out loud': the best Australian books out in July | Australian books
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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Each month, Guardian Australia editors and critics pick the upcoming titles they have already devoured – or can’t wait to get their hands on
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’
Each month, Guardian Australia editors and critics pick the upcoming titles they have already devoured – or can’t wait to get their hands on
For centuries, there has been so little recorded about the lives of queer people. Only a fraction of that is dedicated to queer women, let alone queer women in so-called Australia. She and Her Pretty Friend does a wonderful job of uncovering these stories while conveying the collective frustration of queer women longing to see themselves represented in the narrative of history.’ Hannah McElhinney, Rainbow History Class
Our reviewers cast their eyes over recent fiction and non-fiction.