AustLit

'Anyone who has read Kate Morton’s earlier novels will know that she excels at setting the scene, creating interesting and likeable characters, leading you on until you are sure you have guessed the ‘secret’, then, in the end, proving that there is more to it than you ever imagined. Homecoming is no exception. It is also, as the publisher's blurb says, ‘A love letter to her home country’, Australia, marking the author’s return after years living in the UK.' (Introduction)

'In his preface to these collected writings, Dessaix describes them as ‘talks of mine from gala occasions, along with a few chatty but targeted pieces of journalism … [plus] a short story’; on the back cover, he is quoted as calling his journal articles ‘feuilletons’. Before I began to read the book, I looked up the translation of ‘feuilletons’ – ‘soap operas’ was the first definition I came across.'  (Introduction)

'The second novel from the author of Fever of Animals begins with a family mystery and explores the appeal – and consequences – of joining a cult.' (Introduction)

'Miles Franklin-winner Michelle de Kretser offers unsettling possibilities and questions to ponder in her latest fiction.' 

'Charlotte McConaghy follows up her international bestseller The Last Migration with a story of wolves and the Scottish Highlands.' (Introduction)