Your guide to the Miles Franklin 2022 shortlist
This year’s Miles Franklin shortlist is lyrical in voice, complex in form, and perhaps a little more hopeful than usual.
By Jen Webb - 7 min read
Book review: Discretion in Criminal Justice
Cowdery’s Discretion in Criminal Justice is good reading for anyone seeking insights from his towering experience
By Jill Hunter - 4 min read
Something Blue: an exclusive extract and author chat
Debut novellist Alex Sarkis on her new whip-smart social comedy
By Amy Dale - 9 min read
Book extract: The Dreaming Path
Indigenous thinking to change your life
By Paul Callaghan and Uncle Paul Gordon - 7 min read
Non-fiction reads of the week
The Dreaming Path • The Widow of Walcha • Reckoning
By LSJ Staff - 4 min read
Guilty Pigs
A meandering discussion of animals and how they intersect with the law
By Siobhan O'Sullivan - 9 min read
Book review: A Great Hope
Crime thriller set among the mind games of the 2007-2010 Australian political era
By Amy Dale - 2 min read
The Last Woman in the World
A terrifying pandemic plays front and centre in this modern thriller
By Amy Dale - 2 min read
Case Study
Even fans could fall prey to the trick of this Scottish author’s imagination.
By Amy Dale - 2 min read
Riccardino
Posthumous publication of literary works can be a form of farewell, a closure even
By Brian Dale - 2 min read