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![Two panels. On the left is a blonde woman with glasses and a black top. On the right is a cover of a book with 'The Cautious Traveller's Guide to the Wastelands' written in black. The cover is black and tan with a picture of an incoming train.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Untitled-design-341.jpg?w=310)
Book review: The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands, Sarah Brooks
A sweeping novel of strange lands, mysterious characters, and a train journey that will change the world.
![An Asian woman wearing glasses and a white shirt is standing in front of shrubbery. The Honeyeater.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Untitled-design-301.jpg?w=310)
Book review: The Honeyeaters, Jessie Tu
Jessie Tu's second novel canvasses the relationship between mother and daughter, literary translation and betrayal and love.
![Two panels. On the left is a headshot of man with brown hair and a stubble. On the right is the cover of a book with 'Fool Me Twice' in yellow against a red background. "Benjamin Stevenson' is printed upside down.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/jam.jpg?w=310)
Book review, Fool Me Twice, Benjamin Stevenson
Two baffling mysteries in one book, one featuring a kidnapping, the other a reality TV show.
![Two panels. On the left is the cover of the book with 'The Work' written on a diagonal slant in white and yellow against a skyscraper background. On the right is a blonde woman wearing a white blouse standing against large window panes.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/lee.jpg?w=310)
Book review: The Work, Bri Lee
Old and new art mix with old and new values in this debut novel from Bri Lee.
![Depth of Field. On the left an author shot of a young Caucasian woman with straight black hair and a long sleeved black T shirt photographed in a garden from the waist up. On the right the book cover of a blurry figure silhouetted against a large window.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/Untitled-design-251.jpg?w=310)
Book review: Depth of Field, Kirsty Iltners
A well told story that tackles the fallout from the fallibility of memory.
![Hurdy Gurdy. On the left is a book cover of a circus tent in the distance at night. On the right is an author shot of a middle aged Caucasian women with shoulder length white hair, black jumper and glasses.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/gurdy1.jpg?w=310)
Book review: Hurdy Gurdy, Jenny Ackland
A dystopian Australia sees women's bodies policed and subjugated.
![Nameless. On the left is a head and shoulders author shot of a middle aged Caucasian woman with a white top under a pinafore type dress. She has shoulder length greying hair cut in a bob with a fringe. On the right is a book cover with a black linocut image of a side on woman against a green backdrop.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/nameless.jpg?w=310)
Book review: Nameless, Amanda Creely
War and its voiceless victims are the harrowing topics of this novel.
![Chloe. On the left is a book cover of a young woman painted in the nude, with the bottom of the painting in flames. On the right is an author headshot of a middle aged Caucasian woman with straight long fair hair and a fringe. She is smiling.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/kell.jpg?w=310)
Book review: Chloé, Katrina Kell
A fictionalised exposé of the woman who modelled for the famous painting that hangs in Melbourne's Young and Jackson Hotel.
![Live Bait. On the left is an author shot of a grey-haired with grey/white stubble, white man in his 40s/50s sitting at a table outside in the city, with his arms crossed in front of him and wearing a blue suit jacket over a darker blue T shirt. On the right is a book cover of an angler standing in a rushing river with fishing rod out. We can only see from the chest down to the knee and he is wearing a utility belt with a pistol in it.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/bait.jpg?w=310)
Book review: Live Bait, Stephen Sewell
Can a novel succeed when it features a wilfully stupid protagonist?
![Ordinary Human Love. On the left is a colour headshot of a white woman in her 30s/40s, with wavy dark shoulder length hair, parted in the middle and a V neck black top. The book cover on the right has a pinky/orange background and two lilac coloured statues with arms outstretched, one below the other reaching up as if they are about to kiss.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/human.jpg?w=310)
Book review: Ordinary Human Love, Melissa Goode
A debut novel that surveys intimate relationships and the nature of desire.