Discipline: 'Razor sharp, uncompromising and bitingly funny.' Omar Robert Hamilton

Shortlisted for the 2026 Miles Franklin Literary Award
Silence is complicity, but what does it take to speak up?

Hannah is a journalist running on empty. Balancing the chaos of new motherhood, her job and her faith, she increasingly feels the judgement of a newsroom that doesn’t value her voice. Ashraf is an academic whose career and personal life are in freefall.

As Israel’s bombardment of Gaza intensifies, a teenage student is arrested for protesting a university’s ties to an Israeli arms...