Combined print and ebook bestsellers for first quarter 2024
Friday, 14 June 2024
Top 10 print House of Flame and Shadow (Sarah J Maas) Fourth Wing (Rebecca Yarros) Iron Flame (Rebecca Yarros) RecipeTin Eats: Dinner (Nagi Maehashi) Lola in the Mirror (Trent Dalton)...
‘Eruption’ is the week’s highest new entry
Friday, 14 June 2024
Top 10 bestsellers The Serpent and the Beast (The Bad Guys #19) (Aaron Blabey, Scholastic) RecipeTin Eats: Dinner (Nagi Maehashi, Macmillan) Think Twice (Harlan Coben, Century) When the Moon Hatched...
Love Unleashed (Melanie Saward, Michael Joseph)
Tuesday, 11 June 2024
Melanie Saward’s Love Unleashed is a bingeable, warm and soulful romantic comedy. Saward (whose debut novel, Burn, was released in 2023) draws on her own experience in New York to...
Sky Country (Aunty Patsy Cameron & Lisa Kennedy, Magabala)
Tuesday, 11 June 2024
Grandmother takes her young grandchildren on a walk up a mountain in Trouwerner (Tasmania). As they walk together, Grandmother retells an ancient story of creation, sky, and the First Peoples...
Winter of the Wolf (Amanda Willimott, Viking)
Tuesday, 11 June 2024
Winter of the Wolf is Amanda Willimott’s debut novel, inspired by the real-life trial of Gilles Garnier, who was convicted of being a werewolf in 1573. When Sidonie Montot travels...
Yarn Quest 1: The Search for the Story Realm (Brooke Scobie, illus Jade Goodwin, Penguin)
Tuesday, 11 June 2024
Brooke Scobie’s debut series, Yarn Quest, begins with The Search for the Story Realm (with the next two books in the series releasing concurrently) and introduces friends Sibyl and Tane...
Slick: Australia’s toxic relationship with Big Oil (Royce Kurmelovs, UQP)
Tuesday, 11 June 2024
As citizens of the global West, we are learning that sitting with discomfort is necessary to create change. Slick, by journalist Royce Kurmelovs (Just Money, The Death of Holden), is...
The Youngest Son (John Byrnes, Macmillan)
Tuesday, 11 June 2024
John Byrnes’s The Youngest Son follows the fortunes of three siblings from a working-class Sydney family in the 1930s and 40s. Bob, the titular youngest, naturally gets the largest share...
Hi from Outer Space (Fiona Katauskas, A&U Children’s)
Tuesday, 11 June 2024
Cartoonist and illustrator Fiona Katauskas’s debut middle-grade novel, Hi from Outer Space, is a wonderfully wacky sci-fi/comedy that will appeal to readers of Nat Amoore, Morris Gleitzman and Eve L...
Hester Hitchins and the Falling Stars (Catherine Norton, HarperCollins)
Tuesday, 11 June 2024
The year is 1866, and 11-year-old Hester’s life looks like something out of A Series of Unfortunate Events: her father is lost at sea, her mother dies giving birth to...
Books in the media this weekend, 8–9 June
Friday, 7 June 2024
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Love Across Class (Rose Butler & Eve Vincent, MUP) The Mark...
Latest Bad Guys reaches number one
Friday, 7 June 2024
Top 10 bestsellers The Serpent and the Beast (The Bad Guys #19) (Aaron Blabey, Scholastic) Think Twice (Harlan Coben, Century) Mind Games (Nora Roberts, Piatkus) You Like It Darker (Stephen...
Woo Woo (Ella Baxter, A&U)
Tuesday, 4 June 2024
In Woo Woo, Ella Baxter’s raucous second novel after New Animal, art is terrible, a living spell, a parasite, a trick, and all there is. ‘Art is life,’ writes protagonist...
Six Figures While You Sleep (Kate Toon, Major Street)
Tuesday, 4 June 2024
Following the success of her first book, Six Figures in School Hours, copywriter, podcaster and self-made millionaire Kate Toon returns with Six Figures While You Sleep, a practical, no-nonsense guide to creating...
Shades of Me (Mel Brown, Rockpool)
Tuesday, 4 June 2024
Melinda Brown’s Shades of Me challenges the saying ‘jack of all trades, master of none’ by taking us through Brown’s ‘many lives through many Dreamings’, including her careers as a...
Djinang Bonar: Seeing Seasons (Ebony Froome, illus by Leanne Zilm, Fremantle)
Tuesday, 4 June 2024
Written by Wardandi Noongar woman Ebony Froome, Djinang Bonar: Seeing Seasons is a lyrical picture book describing the six seasons on Noongar country in Western Australia. It cleverly incorporates Noongar...
Catherine Wheel (Liz Evans, Ultimo)
Tuesday, 4 June 2024
Kate is starting over in the small town of Bridgewell after a bad break-up with Max. She works as a yoga instructor and volunteers at the local library, living in...
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Tooth Fairy (and some things you didn’t) (Briony Stewart, Lothian)
Tuesday, 4 June 2024
If you know a young person who has questions about the tooth fairy, then Briony Stewart’s latest picture book might just be perfect for you. Everything You Ever Wanted to Know...
Adventures Unlimited: The Land of Lost Things (Andy Griffiths, illus Bill Hope, Pan Australia)
Tuesday, 4 June 2024
Adventures Unlimited is the latest series from middle-fiction superstar Andy Griffiths, with the first instalment, The Land of Lost Things, full of the wacky, exuberant, imaginative shenanigans fans have come...
Art Hour at the Duchess Hotel (Sophie Green, Hachette)
Tuesday, 4 June 2024
Art Hour at the Duchess Hotel introduces four women who find themselves at the glamorous Duchess Hotel on the picturesque Mornington Peninsula in Victoria in 1999. We first meet Joan,...
Oscar vs the Grand Old Dude Named York (Ross Curnow, Walker)
Tuesday, 4 June 2024
A fresh and hilarious new voice in children’s literature springs forth from the page with delightful force in Oscar vs the Grand Old Dude Named York by debut novelist Ross...
Books in the media this weekend, 1–2 June
Friday, 31 May 2024
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper A Perfect Day to Be Alone (Nanae Aoyama, MacLehose Press) To...
King’s short stories debut at number two
Friday, 31 May 2024
Top 10 bestsellers Think Twice (Harlan Coben, Century) You Like It Darker (Stephen King, Hodder & Stoughton) When the Moon Hatched (Sarah A Parker, HarperVoyager) RecipeTin Eats: Dinner (Nagi Maehashi,...
Our Familiars: The meaning of animals in our lives (Anne Coombs, Upswell)
Wednesday, 29 May 2024
How do we become more attuned to the animals in our lives and challenge ourselves to recognise that their lives are as meaningful as our own? This is the project...
Pancakes for Plum (Rae Tan, Lothian)
Tuesday, 28 May 2024
Pancakes for Plum is a charming story about discovering what we love and following our hearts to find things that make us happy. Plum’s brothers are good at climbing and...
The Dragon’s Treasure (Mark Greenwood, Fremantle)
Tuesday, 28 May 2024
Buried treasure? Check. Old shipwrecks? Check. Mark Greenwood’s latest nonfiction book, The Dragon’s Treasure, begins his new History Hunter series and pulls together historical evidence to tell the story of...
The Honeyeater (Jessie Tu, A&U)
Tuesday, 28 May 2024
The Honeyeater is the second novel by Jessie Tu, acclaimed author of A Lonely Girl Is a Dangerous Thing. The story centres around Fay, an academic and emerging translator who works on...
Murder in Punch Lane (Jane Sullivan, Echo)
Tuesday, 28 May 2024
Jane Sullivan’s third novel, Murder in Punch Lane, transports readers to the grizzly underbelly of 1860s Melbourne. Actress Lola Sanchez doesn’t believe her best friend, theatre star Marie, died by...
New Coben title debuts at number one
Friday, 24 May 2024
Top 10 bestsellers Think Twice (Harlan Coben, Century) When the Moon Hatched (Sarah A Parker, HarperVoyager) RecipeTin Eats: Dinner (Nagi Maehashi, Macmillan) Bowerbird Blues (Aura Parker, Scholastic) King of Sloth...
Books in the media this weekend, 25–26 May
Friday, 24 May 2024
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper 12 Rules for Strife (Jeff Sparrow & Sam Wallman, Scribe) Because I'm...
