'How to Dress a Dummy speaks frankly of Cassie Lane’s battle for acceptance and will ring bells with many women.'

'Rosie Waterland gives a clear-eyed reckoning of her life in this new memoir.'

'As an undergraduate I wrote self-regarding verses (I can’t dignify them as poems), which I submitted to student magazine editors who rightly rejected them. As a postgraduate I tried writing short stories. They were derivative of Hemingway and Maugham and were also rejected. I was discouraged and didn’t try a short story again until I’d abandoned academia and embarked on journalism.' (Introduction)

'A debut novel set in a small Australian town, The Dark Lake is a police procedural with a hefty dose of romantic tension.' 

'Clear observations and easy rhythms continue to give momentum in this final novel by Peter Corris.'

'Emma Viskic explores difference, and its consequences, in this sequel to Resurrection Bay.'