Supporting our Adelaide Writers Week authors
THURSDAY 15 JAN, 2026Adelaide Writers’ Week may be cancelled, but the authors who were due to attend, and their books, still deserve to be celebrated. While we can’t gather in person this year, we encourage readers to seek out their work, support their books, and continue the conversations their writing sparks. Discover, read, and share their books - stories matter, and so do the voices behind them.
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Eden - Mark Brandi
From the bestselling author of Wimmera comes a compelling literary thriller that shows we all have secrets, but some are deadlier than others.
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The Vanity Fair Diaries - Tina Brown
The irreverent diaries of Tina Brown's eight spectacular years as editor in chief of Vanity Fair.
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Melting Point - Rachel Cockerell
For fans of Philippe Sands and Edmund de Waal, this genre-bending family memoir charts the forgotten moment when 10,000 Russian Jews fled to Galveston, Texas - led by Rachel Cockerell's great-grandfather.
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My Father Bryce - Adam Courtenay
Dynamic, complex, driven: Bryce Courtenay was all of these as well as one of Australia's most beloved authors. To his son Adam, he was larger than life, mercurial, and impossible to know completely. In this moving, unforgettable memoir, Adam searches for the real Bryce.
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Conspiracy Theory - Ian Dunt, Dorian Lynskey
From the creators of the chart-topping podcast Origin Story, a series of short books telling the stories of popular - but often misunderstood - political terms.
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Orpheus Nine - Chris Flynn
An unputdownable supernatural thriller about a mysterious global event, set in an Australian rural town.
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The Courageous Life of Weary Dunlop - Peter FitzSimons
The extraordinary story of the heroic doctor whose courage and leadership were a lifeline for thousands of Australian prisoners-of-war on the infamous Thai-Burma Railway of World War II - brilliantly told by Australia's favourite storyteller, Peter FitzSimons.
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The Traitors Circle - Jonathan Freedland
A thrilling true story of courage, resistance and ultimately betrayal in the Third Reich captured by internationally bestselling author and prize-winning journalist Jonathan Freedland.
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Tenderfoot - Toni Jordan
By the bestselling, award-winning author of Addition, an exhilarating novel about coming of age in 1970s Australia.
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We The People - Jill Lepore
To be published on the 250th anniversary year of the American Revolution, We the People is the most original history of the U.S. Constitution in over a century.
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Resurrection Man - Eoin McNamee
In this harrowing, haunting debut novel by one of Ireland's most acclaimed writers, Eoin McNamee conjures a dreamlike appraisal of the roots of violence, in a city where reality has long since succumbed to the lure of conspiracy and paranoia.
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The Mademoiselle Alliance - Natasha Lester
From Australian bestseller Natasha Lester, an epic, sweeping novel of one young woman who risks everything to lead the largest spy network in occupied France - and change the course of World War Two.
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Borneo - Michael Veitch
From bestselling author Michael Veitch (Australia's Secret Army, Turning Point) comes the story of the brilliant, yet controversial Borneo campaign which ended Australia's involvement in World War II.
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