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Milk (Matthew Evans, Murdoch) 

Tuesday, 30 April 2024
Dairy milk is an odd battleground for political polarisation, yet it always seems to be one. Milk is an attempt to make the case for that long-loved standard—cows’ milk—in the face of...

‘Taming 7’ debuts at number one 

Friday, 26 April 2024
Top 10 bestsellers Taming 7 (Chloe Walsh, Piatkus) Powerful (Lauren Roberts, S&S)* My Favourite Mistake (Marian Keyes, Michael Joseph) The Scarlet Shedder (Dog Man #12) (Dav Pilkey, Scholastic) A Calamity...

Books in the media this weekend, 27–28 April 

Friday, 26 April 2024
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 Saturday Paper Excitable...

Where Is the Green Sheep? Celebration Book

Wednesday, 24 April 2024
2024 marks the 20th anniversary of the highly acclaimed, bestselling picture book, Where Is the Green Sheep? by Mem Fox and Judy Horacek. To celebrate this incredible milestone, Penguin Random...

Everything Is Water (Simon Cleary, UQP) 

Tuesday, 23 April 2024
Like the river at its heart, Everything Is Water takes readers on a meandering journey full of unexpected delights, surprises and challenges at every turn. Novelist and hiker Simon Cleary (The...

Liar’s Test (Ambelin Kwaymullina, Text) 

Tuesday, 23 April 2024
The latest YA novel from Palyku author Ambelin Kwaymullina is a high-action, thematically rich fantasy with a gutsy, intuitive protagonist who must become a good liar to survive in the...

The Skeleton House (Katherine Allum, Fremantle) 

Tuesday, 23 April 2024
The Skeleton House is a powerful and riveting literary debut, delving into themes of motherhood, coercive control, and life within a remote and rigid society. Meg’s life, like that of...

Things I Need You to Know (Mark Lamprell, Text) 

Tuesday, 23 April 2024
Birdie’s world is torn asunder when Ned, her husband and the father of their five daughters, dies unceremoniously of stomach cancer. In a reversal of stereotypical gender roles, Birdie was...

‘Wild Love’ debuts at number 2 

Cover of Wild Love Friday, 19 April 2024
Top 10 bestsellers The Scarlet Shedder (Dog Man 12) (Dav Pilkey, Scholastic) Wild Love (Elsie Silver, Piatkus) A Calamity of Souls (David Baldacci, Macmillan) Shock Waves (Fleur McDonald, A&U) The...

Books in the media this weekend, 20–21 April 

Cover of Deep Water by James Bradley Friday, 19 April 2024
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Deep Water (James Bradley, Hamish Hamilton) The End of the Morning (Charmian Clift,...

Fragile Creatures (Khin Myint, Black Inc.) 

Tuesday, 16 April 2024
Debut author Khin Myin’s Fragile Creatures is a remarkable memoir in many ways. Myin’s writing is gracious and honest; at its core, his life story is devastatingly sad. The opening chapter reveals...

The Very Polite Knight (Ian Smith, Affirm) 

Tuesday, 16 April 2024
Finn is not like other knights in the kingdom. While Boris, Ethel and Walter are busy with scaring, fighting and stealing, Finn prefers gardening and reading. He is quiet, kind...

Looking for Eden (Caroline Overington, HarperCollins) 

Tuesday, 16 April 2024
The latest offering from award-winning journalist and bestselling author Caroline Overington is a lopsided thriller. The novel opens as finance hotshot Clare returns to small-town WA following the suicide of...

My Father’s Suitcase (Mary Garden, Justitia Books) 

Tuesday, 16 April 2024
Mary Garden’s My Father’s Suitcase, with its no-holds-barred tone, embodies the Anne Lamott epigraph, ‘If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better’. Readers of...

Shadows of Winter Robins (Louise Wolhuter, Ultimo) 

Tuesday, 16 April 2024
Louise Wolhuter’s second novel, Shadows of Winter Robins, is cinematic and engrossing from the get-go, spiked with suspense and twists aplenty. Wolhuter is clearly a writer in command of her...

Books in the media this weekend, 13–14 April 

Cover of The Work by Bri Lee Friday, 12 April 2024
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend.  National The Saturday Paper Amma (Saraid de Silva, Moa Press) The White Cockatoo Flowers (Ouyang...

The Little Clothes (Deborah Callaghan, Viking) 

Tuesday, 9 April 2024
At 38 years old, Sydney lawyer Audrey—single, childless, unseen and undervalued—is the protagonist of Deborah Callaghan’s debut novel, The Little Clothes. As we follow her struggles at work and in...

Love from Scratch (Amy Hutton, S&S) 

Tuesday, 9 April 2024
Amy Hutton’s new romance, Love from Scratch, reunites readers with the gorgeous actor Ethan from her previous book, Sit, Stay, Love. Ethan, once terribly fearful of dogs, is now filming...