Acclaimed biographer Brenda Niall returns with Joan Lindsay: The Hidden Life of the Woman Who Wrote Picnic at Hanging Rock, a captivating account of one of Australia’s most famous and enigmatic novelists. Perfection, from Italian author Vincenzo Latronico and translated by Sophie Hughes, is a razor-sharp account of contemporary life that Lauren Groff describes as ‘a jewel of a novel, precisely cut, intricately faceted’.