1. “Carpentaria” is an epic, exhilarating, unsettling novel, set in and around the town of Desperance on the Gulf of Carpentaria in Australia’s far north. The inhabitants—the ...

There are often no better examples of this than the books of young authors eager to make an impact, which alone makes it a pleasure to judge The Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian ...

Now in its 29th year, The Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelists award champions the most exciting emerging voices in Australian fiction, shining a spotlight on writers aged 35 and ...

Even those authors who’ve made a splash in the US ... members of the Australian literary community to nominate their best Australian books of the 21st century, creating a ranked top 30.