Crime, politics and history in Aussie bestsellers
Friday, 5 December 2025
Top 10 bestsellers Guinness World Records 2026 (Guinness World Records, Guiness) Last One Out (Jane Harper, Macmillan) Exit Strategy (Lee Child & Andrew Child, Bantam) Brimstone (Callie Hart, Hodderscape) Big...
Books in the media this weekend, 6 to 7 November
Friday, 5 December 2025
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. This week’s round-up will be updated as information becomes available. National The Book Show, ABC...
Junior Book Club – holiday reads
Friday, 5 December 2025
On the hunt for great books to share with kids? Our bumper Junior Book Club holiday edition rounds up new releases for the month and top picks from the past...
FitzSimons’s Weary Dunlop enters Oz Top 10
Friday, 28 November 2025
Top 10 bestsellers Brimstone (Callie Hart, Hodderscape) Nobody’s Girl (Virginia Roberts Giuffre, Doubleday) Guinness World Records 2026 (Guinness World Records, Guinness) Exit Strategy (Lee Child & Andrew Child, Bantam) Big...
Books in the media this weekend, 29 to 30 November
Friday, 28 November 2025
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. This week’s round-up will be updated as information becomes available. National The Book Show, ABC...
AI for Business: A Guide to AI Adoption (Jon Whittle, CSIRO Publishing)
Tuesday, 25 November 2025
As artificial intelligence becomes the latest business buzzword, many people equate it solely with generative tools like ChatGPT. In AI for Business: A Guide to AI Adoption, director of CSIRO’s...
Yet She Lives: Fierce and Fantastical Women of Norse Mythology (Lisa Hannett, T&H)
Tuesday, 25 November 2025
In Yet She Lives: Fierce and Fantastical Women of Norse Mythology, Lisa Hannett brings giantesses, witches and warriors from the ancient world to life. Building on the work of her...
Books in the media this weekend, 22 to 23 November
Friday, 21 November 2025
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. This week's round-up will be updated as information becomes available. National The Book Show, ABC...
Kohler’s money advice enters top ten
Friday, 21 November 2025
Top 10 bestsellers Nobody’s Girl (Virginia Roberts Giuffre, Doubleday) Exit Strategy (Lee Child & Andrew Child, Bantam) Last One Out (Jane Harper, Macmillan) Partypooper (Diary of a Wimpy Kid 20)...
The Other Child (Susi Fox, Penguin)
Tuesday, 18 November 2025
Susi Fox’s The Other Child opens with obstetrician Lauren De Vale returning to work after the birth of her second child, Charlotte, and finding it harder than she expected. Lauren...
A Brain That Breathes: Essential Habits for an Overwhelming World (Jodi Wilson, Murdoch)
Tuesday, 18 November 2025
Amid the frantic pace of modern life and the wellness industry’s constant stream of coping strategies, yoga instructor and blogger Jodi Wilson’s A Brain That Breathes offers a gentler alternative....
Dreamwives (Claire Novak, HarperCollins)
Tuesday, 18 November 2025
Claire Novak’s Dreamwives is a hearty and entertaining contemporary “mum-com” novel that pays tribute to and shines a light on women's invisible labour. Katrina and Michelle are no strangers to...
Sooshi Mango has readers hungry for more
Friday, 14 November 2025
Top 10 bestsellers Exit Strategy (Lee Child & Andrew Child, Bantam) Last One Out (Jane Harper, Macmillan) Nobody’s Girl (Virginia Roberts Giuffre, Doubleday) Partypooper (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #20) (Jeff...
Books in the media this weekend, 15 to 16 November
Friday, 14 November 2025
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Book Show, ABC Radio National Will There Ever Be Another You (Patricia Lockwood, Bloomsbury...
Book Club – this month’s reads
Friday, 14 November 2025
Looking for your next great group read? Our monthly Book Club rounds up new release titles that are perfect for sparking conversation and perhaps even some debate. From compelling fiction to...
How to Get Home (Deborah Frenkel, illus Karen Blair, Affirm)
Tuesday, 11 November 2025
How to Get Home is a charming collaboration between author Deborah Frenkel (The Truck Cat) and illustrator Karen Blair (When I’m BIG, Train Party) that revels in the everyday words surrounding...
Might Cry Later (Kay Kerr, Macmillan)
Tuesday, 11 November 2025
In Kay Kerr’s adult fiction debut, Might Cry Later, Nora Byrne is burnt out and struggling to reclaim herself after blowing up her life in Melbourne. By Christmas, she’s back...
Dark Desert Road (Tim Ayliffe, Echo)
Tuesday, 11 November 2025
Tim Ayliffe’s Dark Desert Road follows identical twins Kit and Billie, who grew up under their father’s violent rule – a man scarred by his trauma from serving in Afghanistan....
Crime and memoir top Aussie bestsellers
Friday, 7 November 2025
Top 10 bestsellers Last One Out (Jane Harper, Macmillan) Partypooper (Diary of a Wimpy Kid 20) (Jeff Kinney, Puffin) The Detective (Matthew Reilly, Macmillan) Always You (Chloe Fisher, Hachette) Nobody’s...
Books in the media this weekend, 8 to 9 November
Friday, 7 November 2025
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. This week's round-up will be updated as information becomes available. National The Book Show, ABC...
Junior Book Club – this month’s reads
Friday, 7 November 2025
Searching for your next great read to share with kids? Our Junior Book Club highlights 10 new titles each month that are perfect for classrooms, libraries and family reading time....
Let’s Make an Adventure (Carrie Gallasch, illus Kïa Hing Fay, Little Book Press)
Tuesday, 4 November 2025
Let’s Make an Adventure by Carrie Gallasch (Cherries, Stitches and Stuffing) encourages independence and agency from the outset: it’s not let’s have an adventure, but let’s make one. The onus...
The Last Encore (Rebecca Heath, Head of Zeus)
Tuesday, 4 November 2025
Secrets, lies, murder and even love await in Rebecca Heath’s latest psychological thriller, The Last Encore. The remaining members of The Cedrics Band reunite on the fictional Sparrow Hawk Island...
Reilly’s The Detective enters Aussie bestsellers
Friday, 31 October 2025
Top 10 bestsellers Last One Out (Jane Harper, Macmillan) Partypooper (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #20) (Jeff Kinney, Puffin) Nobody’s Girl (Virginia Roberts Giuffre, Doubleday) The Detective (Matthew Reilly, Macmillan)...
Books in the media this weekend, 1 to 2 November
Friday, 31 October 2025
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this weekend. This week’s round-up will be updated as information becomes available. National The Book Show, ABC Radio...
How to Have the Best School Year Ever (Jess Sanders, illus Andrea Onishi, Affirm)
Tuesday, 28 October 2025
For many young children, starting the school year can be a daunting experience filled with many unknowns. Jess Sanders’s How to Have the Best School Year Ever is the perfect...
The Wardrobe Project (Emma Edwards, Wiley)
Tuesday, 28 October 2025
In 2022, Emma Edwards (Good with Money) realised she had a serious wardrobe problem. Not only was she stuck in a pattern of overbuying clothing, but she was also unhappy...
Better than the Real Thing (Brooke Crawford, HQ Fiction)
Tuesday, 28 October 2025
Brooke Crawford’s debut novel, Better than the Real Thing, is the kind of delightful escapism you’d expect from a Netflix Christmas movie – comforting, heartfelt and brimming with second chances....
Last One Out comes first: this week’s bestsellers
Friday, 24 October 2025
Top 10 bestsellers Last One Out (Jane Harper, Macmillan) Australia (Tony Abbott, HarperCollins) The Impossible Fortune (Richard Osman, Viking) Arnott’s The Cookbook (Are Media Books, AWW Cookbooks) Gravity Let Me...
Books in the media this weekend, 25 to 26 October
Friday, 24 October 2025
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Book Show, ABC Radio National Boy Swallows Universe (Trent Dalton, Fourth Estate) Burial...
