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Vincent Lam can now join the ranks of Chekhov, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Peter Goldsworthy, all doctors with a penchant for writing good fiction.
It's not surprising that Adams' debut novel revolves around characters with a nose for biology.
Helen Garner returns to fiction to write a story that could have easily found itself on the non-fiction shelf.
Tim Winton's maturity and mastery of craft enable him to choose the most basic material for every element of his art, thus producing a masterpiece.
A more accurate title might be Uncle Bob's Best Bits for Boys and Girls of All Ages, or Carr's Bumper Book of Blurbs.
Davies has been lauded as an accomplished short story writer and, now, a successful novelist.
Georgia Blain trades the fictional narrative of her earlier work for an honest memoir, set against the backdrop of Australian suburbia
In this wartime tale of tortured genius, human frailty and death, Janna Lavin weaves together a story of two of the twentieth century's finest minds.
As America ponders on whether the White House is any place for a woman, it's a timely moment to rewind 2,050 years.
This former Lonely Planet author has written a behind-the-scenes memoir which purports to expose the reality of life as a guidebook writer
Throughout history, society has wrestled with the question of cleanliness, with different ages and cultures arriving at vastly different conclusions.
A fictionalised account of the Roman poet Catullus's most noted love affair
He's one of England's finest legal minds, but Robert Purcell is a pompous weasel in need of a come-uppance.
Set in south London in 1859, this purports to be the posthumously published diary of a bookbinder's wife, Dora.
Steven Totlz's first novel seems to be worth every red cent of of his much publicised $100,000 advance
Serious Things leaps back and forth in the life of Bruno Jackson
Even with his historian's hat on, Baker writes like a novelist, rejecting straightforwardness for a pastiche
Sadie Jones has written a very assured debut and created an impressively sympathetic portrait of a troubled teenager.
Victor Serge's final novel, Unforgiving Years, is one of the more harrowing stories to come out of the Second World War
Though Foreskin's Lament is sometimes depressing, it's mostly just very, very funny
Against the tide of well-structured guidebooks to packaged luxury, Don Watson's strangely wonderful American Journeys reflects on his haphazard experiences across less travelled roads in the land of the freeway
Julie Myerson's seventh novel resembles a childhood romp
Scandinavians love their crime writing, and it seems the Europeans love Scandinavian crime writers
Harold Cleaver just wants to try to shut his big mouth
Edgar Freemantle moves to the Florida outpost of the title to convalesce after a horrific accident which has left him with one arm.
Steve Martin's memoir about his rise from obscurity to platinum-record fame
Kunzru's book, which shifts between a man's staid suburban present and his radical London past, resists labels.
Michael Pollan raised some thorny questions about what to eat in The Omnivore's Dilemma. He answers them all on the first page of his new book, In Defense of Food.
Between 1973 and 1982, the time frame for these journals, Joyce Carol Oates published 28 books.
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