Bush Tukka Guide for Kids (Samantha Martin, Hardie Grant Explore)
Tuesday, 2 December 2025
Bush Tukka Guide for Kids by Samantha Martin, a descendant of the Jaru people, is an exceptional book about so much more than food. Known as the “Bush Tukka Woman”,...
Muttonfish Magic (Ruth Simms & Lucy Robertson, illus Jasmine Seymour, Magabala)
Tuesday, 2 December 2025
Muttonfish Magic honours the Kameragyl and Bidjigal people, the traditional custodians of the land around Kamay (Botany Bay) and Guriwal (La Perouse). With sensory lyricism, Bidjigal Elder Ruth Simms and...
My Sister, the Todzilla (Jacinta Froud, illus Matt Shanks, Affirm)
Tuesday, 2 December 2025
Many parents and older siblings of toddlers will relate to the premise of Jacinta Froud’s My Sister, the Todzilla – a hilarious and entirely recognisable take on toddler tantrums, presented...
Wurnan: Sharing on Ngarinyin Country (Wilinggin Aboriginal Corporation, Magabala)
Tuesday, 2 December 2025
Wurnan: Sharing on Ngarinyin Country, created by the Wilinggin Aboriginal Corporation, is a powerful cultural record that documents the people, artists, stories, traditions and artefacts of Ngarinyin Country in the...
The Break Up (It’s a Twin Thing! #1) (Kristin Darell, illus A Yi, Penguin)
Tuesday, 2 December 2025
Kristin Darell’s The Break Up, the first in a new series illustrated by A Yi, is a middle-grade novel that explores the complexities of primary school friendships with drama, humour...
Plotting the Oceans: Stories of Powerful Maps and Their Makers (Sarah Hamylton, Monash University Publishing)
Tuesday, 2 December 2025
In Plotting the Oceans: Stories of Powerful Maps and Their Makers, Sarah Hamylton reveals how maps chart landscapes and shape how we understand and connect with the world around us....
The Duke’s Secret (Sue Williams, A&U)
Tuesday, 2 December 2025
In The Duke’s Secret, the latest historical fiction by Sue Williams (The Governor, His Wife and His Mistress), journalist Ava Washington sets out to verify a family legend. According to...
In a Common Hour (Sita Walker, Ultimo)
Tuesday, 2 December 2025
Dedicated to the Queensland state school teachers she works alongside, Sita Walker’s debut novel, In a Common Hour, offers readers a story with universal school politics. Over the course of...
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...
The Watchmaker’s War (Danny Ben-Moshe, HarperCollins)
Tuesday, 25 November 2025
In Danny Ben-Moshe’s debut novel, The Watchmaker’s War, Yakov Holtzman, a former Lithuanian underground resistance commander, hopes to leave the trauma of World War II behind him as he makes...
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...
The Last Resort (Amanda Hewitt, Echo)
Tuesday, 25 November 2025
Amanda Hewitt’s debut, The Last Resort, opens with Abbey, newly divorced and reeling from the end of her marriage, as she seeks solace in the Maldives. During a late-night swim,...
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 the violent rule of their father – a man scarred by trauma from serving in...
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...
