Charlotte Wood's highly-anticipated new novel, The Weekend, follows three women in their 70s who gather to clean out the house of their friend Sylvie after her death. The author of six novels and one book of non-fiction, Wood won the 2016 Stella Prize for her extraordinary novel The Natural Way...

Invented Lives, Andrea Goldsmith's eighth novel, is about a young Russian-Jewish woman who arrives in Australia in the mid-1980s as a refugee. Best known for her 2015 Melbourne Prize-winning novel, The Memory Trap, and for the Miles Franklin-shortlisted 2003 novel, The Prosperous Thief, Goldsmith...

Tony Birch's new book, The White Girl, is about the Stolen Generations, set in 1960s rural Australia. It’s the story of Odette, and her fair-skinned granddaughter, who she must protect from authorities at all costs. At Montalto, he joins Michael Williams for a conversation about writing, research...