The Other Mother (Kelly Chandler, Affirm)
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
When Kelly met Pete, it was easy, straightforward and just what she’d been looking for. Negotiating where she fitted into his life with two kids under six, however, would prove...
Stop Fixing Women: Why Building Fairer Workplaces is Everybody’s Business (Catherine Fox, NewSouth)
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
Catherine Fox’s new book explores the longstanding issue of gender imbalance in the workplace, interrogating ingrained myths and assumptions about why this problem persists. She looks at what she terms...
Things That Helped (Jessica Friedmann, Scribe)
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
Canberra-based writer Jessica Friedmann makes an impressive debut with her essay collection Things That Helped. Having lived with depression her entire life, Friedmann has learnt to find comfort in cherished...
A Writing Life: Helen Garner and Her Work (Bernadette Brennan, Text)
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
I don’t think there has been a more significant writer in my bookselling life than Helen Garner—Monkey Grip was published in 1977, the year I began selling books. Every work...
Body of work: Karen Andrews on ‘On the Many Shapes Bodies Will Take’
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
Karen Andrews’ poetry collection, On the Many Shapes Bodies Will Take (Miscellaneous Press, April), ‘tackles the course of a life with such tenderness and grace that you could be tricked...
System override: Elizabeth Tan on ‘Rubik’
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
Elizabeth Tan’s Rubik is a novel of interconnected short stories with plotlines that explore ‘a sprawling world of shady corporations, sentient memes and hackable bodies’. The result is ‘conceptually and structurally...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 27 February 2017
This week’s charts contain some familiar titles, with Scott Pape’s The Barefoot Investor (Wrightbooks) continuing its run as the number-one bestseller in the country, and Liane Moriarty taking four titles in...
Don’t Wake the Dingo (Sally Morgan, illus by Sarah Boese, Scholastic)
Monday, 27 February 2017
The rhythmic text, with frequent alliteration, makes this story perfect for reading aloud at bedtime. The dingo is asleep in a dim, dry cave, which is warm and comfortable. He’s...
The Beast of Hushing Wood (Gabrielle Wang, Puffin)
Monday, 27 February 2017
Ziggy Truegood isn’t looking forward to turning 12, and with a very good reason: every night for the past month she has dreamt she will drown on her birthday. With...
The Blue Cat (Ursula Dubosarsky, A&U)
Monday, 27 February 2017
Slow, dreamlike and meandering, The Blue Cat is a glimpse into life in wartime Australia. Set in Sydney in 1942, it follows Columba in her adventures with her force-of-nature best...
Jack of Spades (Sophie Masson, Eagle Books)
Monday, 27 February 2017
Prolific writer Sophie Masson’s latest book is a young-adult historical fiction, set in Europe in 1910. The book’s title refers to a card sent to 16-year-old English girl, Linda, from...
Mammoth Mistake: Starring Olive Black Book One (Alex Miles, illus by Maude Guesne, Affirm Press)
Monday, 27 February 2017
Mammoth Mistake is the first book in a new series by author Alex Miles, who, among other things, has written for the hugely successful ‘Zac Power’ series. Olive Black is...
Sci-Fi Junior High (John Martin & Scott Seegert, Koala Books)
Monday, 27 February 2017
As the son of two supergeniuses, Kelvin Klosmo has Mighty Mega Supergenius-sized shoes to fill … The only trouble is his supergeniusness hasn’t quite kicked in yet. When Kelvin’s parents...
Night Swimming (Steph Bowe, Text)
Monday, 27 February 2017
Kirby Arrow and her best friend Clancy Lee are the only two 17-year-olds in their tiny town. Clancy wants to leave as soon as possible, but Kirby is determined to...
Remind Me How This Ends (Gabrielle Tozer, HarperCollins)
Monday, 27 February 2017
In Remind Me How This Ends, the author of The Intern, Gabrielle Tozer, swaps the high-pressure world of the fashion industry for a quieter and more introspective story about love,...
The Secret Science of Magic (Melissa Keil, HGE)
Monday, 27 February 2017
Melissa Keil has established herself as a powerful new voice in contemporary YA after winning the Ampersand Prize for her first novel Life in Outer Space and an Inky shortlisting...
The Silent Invasion (James Bradley, Pan)
Monday, 27 February 2017
Callie was six when the Change came to earth. She’s 14 now, and the world’s a different place. The Change, a mysterious illness spread by alien seedpods, has thrown humanity...
Spirited away: Gabrielle Wang on ‘The Beast of Hushing Woods’
Monday, 27 February 2017
Gabrielle Wang’s The Beast of Hushing Woods (Puffin, April) is a ‘lyrical, dreamlike fable for confident readers aged 10 and up’, which ‘marries snippets of Eastern mythology with a setting...
Movie mayhem: Alex Miles on ‘Mammoth Mistake’
Monday, 27 February 2017
Mammoth Mistake is the first book in Alex Miles’ new ‘Olive Black’ series, about a 10-year-old actress who juggles friendships, rivals and on-set hijinks. Reviewer Bec Kavanagh spoke to the...
Small Publisher Spotlight: Real Film and Publishing
Wednesday, 22 February 2017
Established in 2012, Melbourne-based Real Film and Publishing specialises in ‘memoirs, biographies, family histories and legacy books’ in high-quality hardback. Only a few of the books are available commercially, as...
Data and innovation discussed at Digital Book World 2017
Wednesday, 22 February 2017
The importance of data and innovation were the takeaways from this year’s Digital Book World, reports Hardie Grant Books managing director Roxy Ryan. At Digital Book World in New York...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 20 February 2017
J D Robb’s Echoes in Death (Hachette) is the highest new entry in this week’s charts, debuting in second spot on the top 10 behind The Barefoot Investor (Scott Pape,...
Comic timing: Peter Helliar on ‘Frankie Fish and the Sonic Suitcase’
Wednesday, 15 February 2017
Comedian Peter Helliar’s first children’s book Frankie Fish and the Sonic Suitcase (HGE, February) is a time-travel adventure starring 12-year-old Frankie and his cranky grandad, who has a hook for...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 13 February 2017
Liane Moriarty has four titles in the top 10 bestsellers chart this week, with the TV tie-in edition of Big Little Lies debuting at number seven, joining Truly Madly Guilty...
Unlocking the memories: J C Burke on ‘The Things We Promise’
Wednesday, 8 February 2017
Set in the 1990s around the HIV/AIDS crisis, J C Burke’s YA novel The Things We Promise (A&U, March) is a ‘heartbreaking examination of grief, love and prejudice from the...
The Things We Promise (J C Burke, A&U)
Wednesday, 8 February 2017
Gemma can’t wait for her brother Billy to return from New York. An up-and-coming hair and make-up artist, Billy has promised to help Gemma get ready for her school formal,...
Frogkisser! (Garth Nix, A&U)
Wednesday, 8 February 2017
Princess Anya, second in line to the throne, lives with her childish, spoilt older sister Princess Morven, her stepmother and her step-stepfather, Evil Socrerer Duke Rikard (it’s far less complicated...
The Eleventh Hour: Agent Nomad Book One (Skye Melki-Wegner, Random House)
Wednesday, 8 February 2017
The Eleventh Hour kicks off the ‘Agent Nomad’ series by Skye Melki-Wegner, author of ‘Chasing the Valley’. It follows 15-year-old protagonist Natalie Palladino as she discovers a world she thought...
Harry Kruize, Born to Lose (Paul Collins, Ford Street)
Wednesday, 8 February 2017
Harry feels like a born loser: his dad walked out of his life and never looked back, the school bully has Harry squarely in his sights, and his sessions with...
Shearing Time (Allison Paterson, illus by Shane McGrath, Big Sky Publishing)
Wednesday, 8 February 2017
Though shearing is engrained in Australian mythology, chances are that most children aren’t familiar with the practice of removing a woolly coat from its owner. Allison Paterson’s book tries, with...
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