Tuesday, 19 July 2022
Set in a major Australian hospital not long ago, Cut is brilliantly crafted and will appeal to readers of Diana Reid’s Love & Virtue, Yumiko Kadota’s Emotional Female and Debra Oswald’s The Family Doctor. Informed by Susan’s two...

Wednesday, 13 July 2022
Australians love birds – more than 100,000 people took part in the 2021 Aussie Backyard Bird Count. Yes, we are a nation of bird nerds, and these new bird books are...

Monday, 11 July 2022
A delightfully charming and cheekily dark picture book about staying true to yourself and creating things that make you happy. Frank is a penguin with ideas. Mostly terrible ones. That’s...

Friday, 8 July 2022
I found Dad dead on the side of a dirt road. I was sixteen; he was forty-nine. After Lachlan McIver’s father suffers a sudden, fatal heart attack it sends him...

Thursday, 7 July 2022
‘Another spell is cast by Holly Ringland. I was swept away by this triumphant and luminous story.’ —Myfanwy Jones, Miles Franklin Literary Award shortlisted author of Leap 'On the afternoon...

Tuesday, 5 July 2022
Look closer, look with care And you may find a forest… Among the steel and stone canyons of the city, nature flourishes in tiny, tenacious ways. Follow the ant (Iridomyrmex...

Friday, 1 July 2022
A First Nations Elder shares his extraordinary story of finding kindness in the midst of prejudice, and joy in living life to the full 'Welcome to my story. It's a...