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81-year-old Halina Wagowska felt compelled to write this "her last testimony before she drops off the twig" and it's remarkable; at once harrowing, thought provoking and surprisingly uplifting.

In the publishing industry there has been a lot of chatter about this debut novel, a lyrical charmer based on a Russian folk tale about a childless couple who conjure a girl made out of snow.

Dedicated to the men and women of the US forces, this is Hannah's twentieth novel, but the one she says she had the most difficulty writing, because of her determination to do the military proud.

A cracking, taut prologue in which a traumatised young woman launches herself off a London bridge to be lost to the murky depths of the Thames sets the pace and tone for this highly accomplished novel.

There's a reason why people fight so hard to get better… because at some point someone will get better. Why shouldn't Patrick be the one?

John Meyer Frey was just seventeen years old when he was sentenced to die for the murder of his girlfriend.

The Light Between Oceans, by M.L. Stedman, Random House, $32.95. There was an international bidding war for this debut novel by Australian author Margot Stedman and while the plotline is solid, it is the mesmerising quality of the writing that has caused the much deserved commotion. Stedman’s descriptions are superb: vivid and accessible without being […]

Only the great Joan Didion, perhaps, could ask this of us. To return to the well of despair and drink deeply, again, of her pain.

A fantastical tale set in the late 1800s about two old magicians engaged in an eternal duel.

"The book behind the Oscar-winning best foreign film", says the stamp on the cover.