AustLit

'Much admired and shortlisted, Charlotte Wood often hears herself described as an "award-winning novelist". But until now her modest wins were an unpublished manuscript prize for her first novel and the people's prize in the NSW Premier's Literary Awards for her fourth. That changed on Wednesday when The Natural Way of Things, her gutsy fifth novel, about misogyny, was chosen by staff of independent bookshops as both the best fiction and overall best book of the year at the Indie Book Awards - the first national awards of the year...' (Susan Wyndham).

'Janet King (ABC1, 8.30pm) is back! That's ... good? I guess so, if you're a diehard Janet King fan, but I'm not sure if there are any of those. On the other hand, I'm pretty sure there are no diehard Janet King haters either, so you may call that a win for the show, which is a shiny, good-looking, well-cast legal drama entering its second season that still seems oddly short of compelling reasons to watch it...' (Ben Pobjie).