In Dear Mr Rudd, leading Australian thinkers offer essays on key areas of interest: climate change, the economy, human rights, the republic, water and much more besides.
This is Helen Garner’s first novel in 15 years, though it could as easily sit with her formidable body of essays and nonfiction such as Joe Cinque’s Consolation with its familiar personal and direct subject matter and style.
When paramedic Bruce Pike arrives too late to save a boy found hanged in his bedroom he senses immediately that this lonely death is an accident. Pike knows the difference between suicide and misadventure. Winton's first book for 7 years.
When parliamentarian Heather Delaney is shot in the shoulder outside her office, her life will change forever. Struggling to return to work, she is haunted by questions about the shooting.