Daniyal Mueenuddin's changing Pakistan

This is Where the Serpent Lives (bloomsbury.com/au/this-is-where-the-serpent-li…) from Pakistani-US writer Daniyal Mueenuddin (bloomsbury.com/au/author/daniyal-mueenuddin), is an elegy to a changing Pakistan where contemporary life and technology jostles with feudal social hierarchy, privilege, corruption and ambition.
The protagonist in Australian writer Claire Thomas (clairethomaswriter.com/about)'s latest novel On Not Climbing Mountains (hachette.com.au/claire-thomas/on-not-climbing-…) travels through grief on Swiss trains through the Alpine Way. It's a journey that inspires art, stories and captures moments of connection.