The Feather (Margaret Wild, illus by Freya Blackwood, Little Hare)
Monday, 23 October 2017
This exquisite and affecting allegory is another masterful Margaret Wild and Freya Blackwood collaboration that is greater than the sum of its parts. Similar to the pair’s previous book, The...
Go Go and the Silver Shoes (Jane Godwin, illus by Anna Walker, Viking)
Monday, 23 October 2017
Jane Godwin and Anna Walker are a winning pair: Walker’s tender, beautiful illustrations are a perfect complement to Godwin’s careful, gentle words. Their previous successes include the reassuring Starting School...
Grandma Z (Daniel Gray-Barnett, Scribble)
Monday, 23 October 2017
Albert leads a very ordinary, monochrome life. But on his birthday, when his parents are planning the same boring routine, there is a surprise knock on the door. Albert’s larger-than-life...
Tin Heart (Shivaun Plozza, Penguin)
Monday, 23 October 2017
Marlowe Jensen was The Dying Girl. Born with a congenital heart defect, no-one expected Marlowe to make it to her 18th birthday until she won the organ-donation lottery, and got...
The Hole Story (Kelly Canby, Fremantle Press)
Monday, 23 October 2017
One of the joys of early childhood are those moments when you discover the remarkable in the everyday. The Hole Story turns on such uncanny moments. When Charlie discovers a...
Ice Wolves: Elementals Book One (Amie Kaufman, HarperCollins)
Monday, 23 October 2017
There are two shapeshifting ‘elementals’ in the land of Vallen: the Ice Wolves, who protect the city of Holbard, and the Scorch Dragons, who attack it. They have been sworn...
Perfect World: Otherworlds Book One (George Ivanoff, Puffin)
Monday, 23 October 2017
While out shopping for pickles, a chance discovery lands Keagan in a parallel world: a pristine land of eerily similar clones, who quickly throw him out with the trash for being too different....
P is for Pearl (Eliza Henry-Jones, HarperCollins)
Monday, 23 October 2017
Seventeen-year-old Gwen runs every day from the thoughts of her future and the ghosts of her past. She is unable to imagine a life beyond the boundaries of her small...
Missing (Sue Whiting, Walker Books)
Monday, 23 October 2017
A mother is missing in the jungles of Panama and a father and daughter are attempting to discover the truth behind her disappearance. This is the premise of Sue Whiting’s...
Pugs Don’t Wear Pyjamas (Michelle Worthington, illus by Cecilia Johansson, New Frontier)
Monday, 23 October 2017
As far as dogs go, pugs are pretty adorable with their squishy faces, flat noses and curly tails, but Ellie is no ordinary dog. Her owner Roz treats her like...
Before I Let You Go (Kelly Rimmer, Hachette)
Monday, 23 October 2017
Successful physician Lexie receives a frantic call in the middle of the night—her younger sister Annie is addicted to heroin and heavily pregnant. Lexie rushes Annie to hospital, but the...
The Cage (Lloyd Jones, Text)
Monday, 23 October 2017
Two strangers appear in a generic town, both claiming to have survived a catastrophe. They are unable to explain what happened, where it happened or even who they are. They...
Cake at Midnight (Jessie L Star, S&S)
Monday, 23 October 2017
Gio (the baker), Declan (the brains) and Zoe (the beauty) have always been a trio, but a few thoughtless words from Declan force Gio to face the truth: he’ll never...
Dyschronia (Jennifer Mills, Picador)
Monday, 23 October 2017
In a remote, single-industry Australian town, a young girl, Sam, starts to suffer from migraines. The sharp pain is accompanied by visions of the future, which her sceptical mother warns...
The Earth Does Not Get Fat (Julia Prendergast, UWA Publishing)
Monday, 23 October 2017
Julia Prendergast’s first novel, The Earth Does Not Get Fat, is an almost verse-like narrative filled with poignantly described intimate thoughts and emotions. Teenager Chelsea has her hands full caring...
The Everlasting Sunday (Robert Lukins, UQP)
Monday, 23 October 2017
Coming-of-age boarding school stories have a special place in the literary world; the teenage experiences of angst, confusion and ambition, combined with the greater potential for violence in an all-male...
Four Respectable Ladies Seek Part-time Husband (Barbara Toner, Bantam)
Monday, 23 October 2017
It’s 1919, the Great War is over and the Spanish Flu has ended. In rural New South Wales, four women find themselves beset with problems and with no men in...
Hangman (Jack Heath, A&U)
Monday, 23 October 2017
In the age of the anti-hero, morally ambiguous characters compel readers to empathise with and root for them, despite their troubled natures and character flaws. Enter Timothy Blake, the Hangman,...
The Lebs (Michael Mohammed Ahmad, Hachette)
Monday, 23 October 2017
Punchbowl Boys High, often dubbed ‘NSW’s most troubled school’, was the subject of a 2016 autobiographical essay by Michael Mohammed Ahmad. Now, that reminiscence of his alma mater has become...
The Lucky Galah (Tracy Sorensen, Picador)
Monday, 23 October 2017
It is testament to debut author Tracy Sorensen’s talent that, against all odds, choosing to have a galah narrate her novel never becomes gimmicky. Somehow the reader suspends disbelief and...
The Naturalist’s Daughter (Tea Cooper, HQ)
Monday, 23 October 2017
At the heart of Tea Cooper’s The Naturalist’s Daughter are the stories of two bold, inspirational women connected across history by a great scientific controversy—the classification of the platypus. This...
Spinifex and Sunflowers (Avan Judd Stallard, Fremantle Press)
Monday, 23 October 2017
This disturbing novel is based on the experiences of its author, who spent three months working at Curtin Immigration Detention Centre in Western Australia. His protagonist, a university dropout and...
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (Heather Morris, Echo)
Monday, 23 October 2017
This novel is based on an incredible true story of resilience, loss and survival—the result of years of interviews between Heather Morris and Holocaust survivor Ludwig (Lale) Sokolov. The Tattooist...
A Free Flame: Australian Women Writers and Vocation in the Twentieth Century (Ann-Marie Priest, UWA Publishing)
Monday, 23 October 2017
This book traces the creative vocations of four notable Australian women writers of the mid-20th century, hinging on the notion of writing as an urgent, privately held imperative. Ann-Marie Priest’s...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 23 October 2017
Three new releases have shot into the top 10 chart this week, led by John Green’s Turtles All the Way Down (Penguin), which debuted in fourth place. It is Green’s...
Introducing New Frontier
Thursday, 19 October 2017
Established in Australia in 2002, New Frontier Publishing specialises in children’s books for the trade and the educational market. In 2017 the publisher opened a UK office and in 2018...
Pug picture book tops bestsellers chart
Wednesday, 18 October 2017
The Australian picture book bestsellers chart for September is dominated by Aaron Blabey and Mem Fox, with the exception of Nick Bland’s The Very Sleepy Bear—a follow-up to Bland’s 2008...
Multiple awards for ‘Words in Deep Blue’
Wednesday, 18 October 2017
Cath Crowley’s YA novel Words in Deep Blue (Pan Macmillan)—a love story between estranged best friends set in a Melbourne secondhand bookshop—has picked up multiple awards in the past few...
Australian children’s books selected for international catalogues
Wednesday, 18 October 2017
Several Australian children’s and YA books will soon be getting greater international exposure after being included in the prestigious IBBY Honour List and White Ravens catalogue. Two refugee stories—the YA...
A&U acquires feminist picture book ‘Our Little Inventor’
Wednesday, 18 October 2017
Allen & Unwin has acquired world rights to Australian illustrator and designer Sher Rill Ng’s debut picture book Our Little Inventor via Danielle Binks at Jacinta di Mase Management, to...
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