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The 25 best Australian books of 2025

Just in time for last-minute gifts: Guardian Australia critics and staff pick out the best books of the year, featuring Helen Garner, Dominic Amerena, Evelyn Araluen and more

The Guardian - AU · Dec 19, 2025

Uncertainties, mysteries, doubts: Madeleine Watts takes an elegiac road trip through the American southwest

In December 1817, the Romantic poet John Keats sent a letter to his brothers George and Thomas, in which he celebrated a quality in Shakespeare’s work he termed “negative capability”. He defined this as “when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after…

The Conversation · Mar 2, 2025

Madeleine Watts: ‘Climate change should be in everyone’s writing right now’

In her second novel Elegy, Southwest, the Australian author writes into the climate crisis from a millennial perspective with a mixed sense of melancholy and hope

The Guardian - AU · Mar 2, 2025