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Boundary Crossers (Meg Foster, NewSouth) 

Tuesday, 9 August 2022
In her new book Boundary Crossers, historian Meg Foster combs archives and family histories to explore questions surrounding the lesser known bushrangers of Australian history. Is there more to the story...

Amazing Animal Journeys (Jennifer Cossins, Lothian) 

Tuesday, 9 August 2022
Tasmanian artist Jennifer Cossins hit world picture-book fame with 101 Collective Nouns, and has since collected a swag of CBCA and other accolades. Her newest title, the nonfiction Amazing Animal...

The Lovers (Yumna Kassab, Ultimo) 

Tuesday, 9 August 2022
Yumna Kassab’s The Lovers is the folkloric tale of Jamila and Amir’s love. We don’t know many details of their relationship or what their love was like at its crescendo;...

Books in the media this weekend, 6–7 August 

Friday, 5 August 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend.  National The Saturday Paper  Legitimate Sexpectations (Katrina Marson, Scribe) Mothercare (Lynne Tillman, Soft Skull Press)...

Dusty in the Outwilds (Rhiannon Williams, HGCP) 

Tuesday, 2 August 2022
Dusty, real name Willa Dust, might just be the most intuitive, smart and brave 12-year-old you’ll ever get caught up in an extraordinary adventure with. Dusty has always heard about...

Books in the media this weekend, 30–31 July 

Friday, 29 July 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend.  National  The Saturday Paper  A System So Magnificent It Is Blinding (Amanda Svensson, Scribe) Lessons...

The Branded (Jo Riccioni, Pantera Press) 

Tuesday, 26 July 2022
Twins Nara and Osha are Pure—unmarked by the plague that ravaged their continent. Behind the walls of the isolated citadel of Isfalk, the course of their lives is clearly prescribed:...

Runt (Craig Silvey, illus by Sara Acton, A&U) 

Tuesday, 26 July 2022
Nobody knows where Runt came from, but everybody knows he’ll only listen to Annie. Annie’s instinct is to fix everything, and Runt’s is to follow Annie. When anyone else is...

Books in the media this weekend, 23–24 July 

Friday, 22 July 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Harvest Lingo (Lionel Fogarty, Giramondo) Out of Breath (Anna Snoekstra, HQ Fiction)...

A Kind of Magic (Anna Spargo-Ryan, Ultimo) 

Tuesday, 19 July 2022
It’s still quite something to read a book that speaks the truth about mental health. A Kind of Magic is Anna Spargo-Ryan’s epic, relentlessly honest autobiography of a life lived...

Limberlost (Robbie Arnott, Text) 

Cover of Limberlost Tuesday, 19 July 2022
Fifteen-year-old Ned helps his father and sister on the family orchard while his brothers are away at war. Seeking escape from his sister’s worry and his father’s silence, Ned traps...

Moon Sugar (Angela Meyer, Transit Lounge) 

Tuesday, 19 July 2022
Mila—40, single, childless—is used to attending to the needs and wants of others. Her own wants, particularly her sexual desires, have always come second. Kyle, a tentative man in his...

A Girl Called Corpse (Reece Carter, A&U) 

Tuesday, 19 July 2022
Reece Carter—who previously brought us The Garden Apothecary—has turned his hand to prose for his debut middle-grade novel A Girl Called Corpse. Corpse is a ghost with no memory of...

Books in the media this weekend, 16–17 July 

Friday, 15 July 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper  Lilly and Her Slave (Has Fallada, Scribe)  Uncanny Angles (Sean Williams,...

Seeing Other People (Diana Reid, Ultimo) 

Wednesday, 13 July 2022
Eleanor and Charlie are sisters in their 20s, emerging from the pandemic and trying to decide what they want from their lives. Intellectual, straitlaced Eleanor has just broken up with...

All That’s Left Unsaid (Tracey Lien, HQ Fiction) 

Tuesday, 12 July 2022
Brutally murdered inside a restaurant on the night of his high-school graduation, Ky Tran’s brother, Denny, has suffered a ‘bad death’. It is 1996, and when Ky (pronounced ‘key’) travels...

The Upwelling (Lystra Rose, Lothian)

Tuesday, 12 July 2022
Kirra doesn’t understand how or why, but her dreams come true. And no one believes her, not even Nan, who told Kirra to never mention her ‘power’. One night, she...

The Jammer (Nova Weetman, UQP) 

Tuesday, 12 July 2022
Fred has roller derby in her blood. As soon as she could walk, her mum had her skating. It was their thing—and a place where Fred always knew she belonged—until...

Books in the media this weekend, 9–10 July

Friday, 8 July 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend.  National The Saturday Paper  The Age of Fibs (Beth Spencer, Spineless Wonders)  Disorientation (Elaine Hsieh...

People Who Lunch (Sally Olds, Upswell) 

Wednesday, 6 July 2022
People Who Lunch is the much-anticipated first book by Melbourne-based writer Sally Olds. Known among a devoted coterie of fans for her long-form standalone essays, Olds’ first full collection focuses...

Books in the media this weekend, 2–3 July 

Friday, 1 July 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend.  National The Saturday Paper The Diplomat (Chris Womersley, Picador)  Enclave (Claire G Coleman, Hachette)  Lapvona...

Bon and Lesley (Shaun Prescott, Giramondo) 

Tuesday, 28 June 2022
Shaun Prescott continues his existential explorations of modern life in his second novel, which follows his 2017 debut The Town. In the opening pages of Bon and Lesley we meet...

Paper Cage (Tom Baragwanath, Text)

Tuesday, 28 June 2022
Paper Cage is a thrilling whodunnit and the winner of the 2021 Michael Gifkins Prize. The story centres on Lorraine, a records clerk at a small-town police department. She’s bright...

 

 

 

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