Mantle Hearn

Mantle HearnA generous work, by a glorious young writer.The Australian, the big books of 2026Nature has another evolution in store for usI think about how the earth likes to cough things up. Bones, fossils, slivers of rock, like an interior self. How it likes to spew gas, lava, smoke. How the earth under our feet is anything but solid. How in fact, the surface itself is constantly in movement, teeming. And inside, inside, in the mantle, we can only guess. Ursula

green spaces

walking tours

and get home in time to clean up his room

something her new husband can attest

Today he's investigating the case of the missing hat

Four years later

children can play along as they follow the scenes from Tchaikovsky's magical ballet

Everyone could hear everyone else's thoughts in a constant

text-indent:0pt} A feminist utopia crumbles with one impossible birth

Twelfth Night is a popular text for study by secondary students the world over

' - Hayley Scrivenor

unexpected events such as the global financial crisis and COVID-19