‘We haven’t always lived like this …’ Kris grew up by an observatory, learning about telescopes and planets, inspired by the passions of her mother and father, then leaders in their fields of astrophotography and astronomy. In the outside world, things are not good: extinctions and a loss of diversity threaten what’s left of the environment.

The Thinning is both an exquisitely written novel of nature and urgent psychological suspense by the bestselling and acclaimed author of Willowman, The Last Woman in the World and Mr Wigg.

Discovering Kanye West is endorsing Adolf Hitler, John Safran heads to America to find out what’s up. Kanye proves elusive, one thing leads to another, and John packs his duffle bags and moves in, squatting at one of Kanye’s mansions in the rolling hills of Los Angeles. Dangerous and hilarious, Squat is for anyone who’s been told they don’t belong.

In the distant highlands, a puma named Dusk is killing shepherds. Down-on-their-luck twins Iris and Floyd journey up into this wild, haunted country, where they discover there’s far more to the land and people of the highlands than they imagined.

Dusk is the captivating new novel by the author of Limberlost, which was The Age’s 2023 Fiction Book of the Year.