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A composite of three authors: (remaining) Ali Smith, (center) Clementine Ford, (right) Yan Lianke all have actually books out in Australia in October. Composite: Sarah Lee, Antonio Olmos, Pobke Photographer

Tim Winton is one of Australia’s best modern novelists, but their most recent choices will be in the realm of nonfiction. The Boy Behind the Curtain continues this trend, providing a collection of essays – including some previously unpublished – that study life through Winton’s eyes. Not only are there the meditations from the normal globe that infuse so much of their various other work, but he also lends his pen to Christianity, firearms, asylum seekers, and road accidents. That Winton’s nonfiction is really as lyrical as their fiction goes without saying.

Currently available.

Andrew P Street is a commentator and critic, whoever weekday column View from the Street made him a permanent fixture associated with Australian crucial landscape.

The Curious Story of Malcolm Turnbull, the Incredible Shrinking Man into the Top Hat is Street’s second book of governmental discourse, following up their similarly loquacious The Short and Excruciatingly Embarrassing Reign of Captain Abbott.

For this brand-new governmental period and not-so-new cutthroat political landscape, Street offers his trademark make of political commentary with an excellent dosage of sarcasm and snark from the not-so-smooth rise and skin-of-his-teeth electoral success of our illustrious prime minister (for the time being) Malcolm Turnbull.

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Prolific commentator and preferred Australian feminist Clementine Ford’s much-anticipated first guide is less a memoir than a manifesto. Ford shot to fame through her feminist columns on Fairfax’s day to day life web site, and her first full-length guide project is infused with the exact same unique attitude and schedule.

Guardian Australia’s Brigid Delaney blogged: “Part memoir, component polemic, combat Like a woman details Ford’s development from a woman with an eating disorder just who wanted to be liked by the young men (‘Being complicit in your silence, ’ she writes), to a woman finding her vocals, feminism and a sisterhood of ‘girl gangs’.”

A master satirist with a keen attention for cultural absurdities, Yan Lianke’s 30-year writing profession has lead to a swag of awards, including a number of Asia’s many prestigious literary rewards. Lately, his book The Four Books had been shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize, cementing his reputation as one of Asia’s pre-eminent fiction authors.

The Explosion Chronicles is a satirical study of energy, neighborhood and dynasty, as three families go about producing their particular fortunes into the millenia-old city of Explosion. Originally started by refugees from a volcanic eruption, within the post-Mao age, town transforms rapidly from town to unwieldy active metropolis, packed with corruption and vice.

Readily Available 17 October.

What the results are as soon as the coolest child in the city disappears without a trace? What goes on when two of those do?