Remember the novel A Visit from the Goon Squad, that swept all other books before it a few years ago? Jennifer Egan’s back, and her new novel Manhattan Beach travels to entirely different places and times.

How long can you hold your breath, how deep can you dive, how far will you go in a relationship?

'Every hack is a heist and every heist is a hack.' Jack Parlabane is back.

Young American writer Brit Bennett has written a powerful novel of secrets, small towns and friendship.

When all the Jewish residents in a small Ukrainian town were told to line up and be counted in 1941, what happens to the two small boys who run away and hide instead?

What has shaped the work and imagination of crime writer Denise Mina?

Gay working class Western Sydney noir, with a Greek accent.

Can you imagine the NSW coast in 1796, 1900 and then 2717?

In a world of fantasy, with dragons and magic, you have to get the horses and the nails and the practicalities right to make it believable. If you do that, living ships too aren't such a stretch.

A lonely poet leaves a message in a bottle in 1932 - 'Telephone Helensburgh 120 and ask for Wystan' - and it's picked up by a lonely poet in the present. She calls, he answers, and they become friends across time.