Title: Lost and Found Author: Liz Byrski Published: 28th October 2025, PanMacmillan Aus Status: Read October 2025 courtesy PanMacmillan Aus ++++++++ My Thoughts: Two years after she woke from an urgent dream, Rose Walters is finally returning to England to confront her biggest loss. It’s been thirty years since Tom Stutchbury broke her heart but … Continue reading Review: Lost and Found by Liz Byrski| Book’d Out
About the Book: Nonfiction winner of the Finlay Lloyd 20/40 Prize for 2025 Documenting the damaging role of anxiety in our lives is hardly new, but Touched takes us inside the destabilising riot of a three-day panic attack with such insight, honesty and humour that the perspective we gain is revelatory and overwhelmingly hopeful. This book has … Continue reading Touched by Kim Kelly| Theresa Smith Writes
Introduced by Susan Wyndham Published in HEAT 21 – Giramondo Publishing Previously unpublished, The Last Days was discovered by Susan Wyndham among Elizabeth Harrower’s papers in the Na…| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: Van Diemen’s Land, 1839. A young woman of means arrives in Hobart, with a young boy in her care. Leasing an old cottage next to an abandoned vineyard, Caroline Douglas must na…| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: In 2003, seventeen-year-old Australian exchange student Hannah Kent arrives at Keflavík Airport in the middle of the Icelandic winter. That night she sleeps off her jet lag and bewi…| Theresa Smith Writes
Melbourne author Fiona Hardy has broken very different ground with her crime fiction debut Unbury the Dead.| Newtown Review of Books
About the Book: One will lose his mind. One will pay. One will agonise. And one will die. Duy, Phong, Minh, and Edmond have been best friends since childhood. Now, as young men running their famili…| Theresa Smith Writes
Fiction dominates the 2025 Stella Prize lonlgist which has just been announced at the Adelaide Festival. This prize for Australian women and non-binary writers is worth $60,000 to the winner| Reading Matters
About the Book: 1918, Belowla. As the Great War grinds to an end, Adelaide Roberts accompanies her father to a rugged island off the south coast of New South Wales. While loss and deprivation …| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: WINNER OF THE READINGS NEW AUSTRALIAN FICTION PRIZE Mary Anne is painfully aware that she’s not a good wife and not a good mother, and is slowly realising that she no longer w…| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: Dominic Salt and his three children are caretakers of Shearwater, a tiny island not far from Antarctica. Home to the world’s largest seed bank, Shearwater was once full of researche…| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: What would you do if you found out you’d been raising another couple’s child – and they’ve been raising yours? Fourteen years ago, Kelsey and Raf Maccioni le…| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: When Giselle escapes to the north Yorkshire village of Hollydale, she doesn’t give much thought to what she might find there. She’s more concerned with what she’s leavin…| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: WINNER OF THE 2024 MATT RICHELL AWARD FOR NEW WRITER OF THE YEAR Hera Stephen is clawing through her mid-twenties, working as an underpaid comment moderator in an overly air-conditi…| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: When Caitlin inherits a significant sum of money on her fortieth birthday, she decides to break the habits of a lifetime and throw caution to the winds. She’s about to tell he…| Theresa Smith Writes
In her new novel, Panic, Catherine Jinks provides a timely take on online mobs, conspiracy theorists, and sovereign citizens.| Newtown Review of Books
Martine Kropkowski’s debut crime fiction delves into the devastating consequences of the epidemic of violence against women.| Newtown Review of Books
