at the Complete Review

In the Sunday Times Caroline Baum surveys Australia's literary landscape, as she thinks Australian novelists are finally gaining the recognition they deserve.

Jeanette Winterson will deliver the opening address at the Sydney Writers' Festival (which runs 19 to 25 May), and in Won't take no for an answer in the Sydney Morning Herald Deborah Snow talks with her.

It seems like everyone is offering a variation of James Bond guide this weekend.

The most recent addition to the complete review is our review of Tan Twan Eng's The Gift of Rain.

The Perilous Crown; A Guinea Pig's History of Biology; The Pyjama Game; British Architectural Styles; Redemption Falls; Self Help.

Matt Thorne reviews Whatever Makes You Happy by William Sutcliffe

John Preston reviews Amis and Son by Neil Powell

James Holland reviews Amazing Tales for Making Men Out of Boys by Neil Oliver

Ed King reviews All the Sad Young Literary Men by Keith Gessen

Heather Thompson reviews Novel About My Wife by Emily Perkins

Michael Prodger reviews The Phoenix by Leo Hollis and Building St Paul's By James W.P. Campbell

Our regular review of the reviews

Graham Farmelo reviews The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments by George Johnson

Tim Blanning reviews 1789: The Threshold of the Modern Age by David Andress

Mark Sanderson at large in a world of books

Simon Ings reviews The Baby in the Mirror by Charles Fernyhough