In 1996 a Sydney law student took out a bank loan to print 1,000 copies of his debut novel. Matthew Reilly had been rejected ...

Samuel Bernard’s picks on new fiction and non-fiction books to look out for this month, including the latest novel by Matthew Reilly.

With boxes of the book Contest stored in the backroom of his parents’ house, he approached retailers and managed to convince them to stock it on their shelves, including the former flagship Angus & ...