Because of You (Pip Harry, UQP)
Wednesday, 31 May 2017
Tiny is homeless. Nola has everything she could ask for. They meet when Nola is forced into volunteer work for the writers’ group at the homeless shelter where Tiny is...
The Dream Walker (Victoria Carless, Hachette)
Wednesday, 31 May 2017
In her debut novel, Victoria Carless explores isolation, hope and grief through the surreal and distortive lens of dreams. Sixteen-year-old Lucy Hart feels lost in the isolated fishing village of...
The Vampire Knife: The Witching Hours Book One (Jack Henseleit, Hardie Grant Egmont)
Wednesday, 31 May 2017
As a bookseller, recommending horror for the middle-grade fiction crowd is a difficult balancing act: not scary enough and the kids will switch off; too scary and the adults will protest. Thankfully the publication of The Vampire...
Musical Markus: Super Moopers Book One (Fiona Harris, illus by Scott Edgar, Five Mile)
Wednesday, 31 May 2017
Markus is a Mooper who loves to sing loudly and constantly! Unfortunately, most of the Moopers in Moopertown find this, well, annoying. Poor Markus. Who wouldn’t feel sorry for him...
I Just Ate My Friend (Heidi McKinnon, A&U)
Wednesday, 31 May 2017
Making friends can be hard but keeping them can be even harder. Especially if you’ve just eaten your friend, like the nameless monster in Heidi McKinnon’s debut picture book. The...
Feathers (Phil Cummings, illus by Phil Lesnie, Scholastic)
Wednesday, 31 May 2017
If we could all fly around the world like the sandpiper in Phil Cummings and Phil Lesnie’s latest picture book, we would see how many people are experiencing extreme hardships...
Stubborn Stanley (Nathaniel Eckstrom, Scholastic)
Wednesday, 31 May 2017
Stanley is a messy-haired, freckly boy in red overalls. Depicted on the cover, he has his arms crossed in a determined stance and his name cleverly spelt out with various...
The Build-up Season (Megan Jacobson, Penguin)
Wednesday, 31 May 2017
Megan Jacobson’s The Build-up Season is a confronting but compelling exploration of domestic violence and the legacies of abuse, set against the gathering storm clouds in the ‘build-up’ to Darwin’s...
Sparrow (Scot Gardner, A&U)
Wednesday, 31 May 2017
Scot Gardner’s latest YA novel is a story of survival in both the wilderness and the city. Leaping from an exploding boat into crocodile-infested waters, the boy who never speaks...
Exchange of Heart (Darren Groth, Penguin)
Wednesday, 31 May 2017
Canadian Munro Maddox is on an exchange program to Brisbane for one reason only—to leave behind the demons he’s been carrying around since the sudden death of his younger sister...
Stitches and Stuffing (Carrie Gallasch, illus by Sara Acton, Little Hare)
Wednesday, 31 May 2017
Loving relationships are so important in children’s lives. It doesn’t seem to matter if the relationships are with humans, animals or toys—they are all a vital part of growing up....
Gaolbird (Simon Barnard, Text)
Wednesday, 31 May 2017
Simon Barnard’s latest convict story for children presents a boisterous slice of Australian colonial history using lairy illustrations and a persistent and multi-stranded narrative. Unlike his meticulous, information-loaded CBCA Award-winning...
The Traitor and the Thief (Gareth Ward, Walker Books)
Wednesday, 31 May 2017
In a steampunk alternate England, the life of 14-year-old petty thief Sin changes when he is recruited to join a secret school for young spies tasked with preventing an alternate...
Book blogger spotlight: Diva Booknerd
Wednesday, 31 May 2017
YA and middle-grade book blogger Kelly from Diva Booknerd says she reviews books ‘purely on emotion and entertainment’, and enjoys the sense of community that blogging brings. She spoke to...
Hark It‘s Me, Ruby Lee! (Lisa Shanahan, illus by Binny Talib, Lothian)
Tuesday, 30 May 2017
This light-hearted, lesson-filled picture book from Lisa Shanahan (author of Bear and Chook and Big Pet Day) perfectly matches Binny Talib’s simple-yet-vivid illustrations. Talib uses specific shades of blue, yellow,...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 29 May 2017
Last week’s highest new entry, Lee Child’s No Middle Name (Bantam), has bumped Paula Hawkins’ Into the Water (Doubleday) from top spot in this week’s top 10 bestsellers, as well...
Myth and legends: Sulari Gentill Q&A
Thursday, 25 May 2017
Sulari Gentill (S D Gentill) is the author of the ‘Rowland Sinclair’ mystery series, as well as ‘The Hero Trilogy’, which retells the Iliad and the Odyssey for a YA...
Modern love: Jean Flynn on ‘Lovesick’
Thursday, 25 May 2017
Jean Flynn’s debut novel Lovesick is the first title from Xoum Publishing’s new romance imprint XO Romance. Reviewer Kat Mayo describes it as a ‘fun romantic comedy’ with a ‘modern...
Aussie, Aussie, Aussie: Questionable Histories of Great Australians (Ben Pobjie, Affirm Press)
Thursday, 25 May 2017
Ben Pobjie’s latest book Aussie, Aussie, Aussie continues in the same satirical vein as Error Australis: Australian history made palatable with a dose of snark and good humour. The subtitle...
Gravity Well (Melanie Joosten, Scribe)
Thursday, 25 May 2017
Thirty years ago, American astronomer Carl Sagan described a photo of our planet as a blue dot: ‘That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone...
Many voices: Jennifer Down on ‘Pulse Points’
Thursday, 25 May 2017
Jennifer Down’s first book of short stories, Pulse Points (Text), captures the lives of its characters with ‘an emotional clarity and intensity that is truly impressive,’ writes reviewer Kate McDonnell. She spoke...
The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree (Shokoofeh Azar, Wild Dingo Press)
Thursday, 25 May 2017
A reimagining of the 1979 Islamic Revolution and its aftermath, Shokoofeh Azar’s The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree expertly traces the travails of a family of five during one of...
Book blogger spotlight: Readers in Wonderland
Wednesday, 24 May 2017
Australian blogger Rebecca Daly and US-based Alise McGriffin have collaborated on the YA blog Readers in Wonderland since 2013. Daly’s blogging style incorporates GIFs and images to keep it visually...
Wellmania: Misadventures in the Search for Wellness (Brigid Delaney, Nero)
Tuesday, 23 May 2017
Wellmania takes on the industrial wellness complex, a billion-dollar industry that mainstreams and monetises ancient traditions for affluent consumers. Feeling depleted from decades in the fast lane, journalist Brigid Delaney...
Her (Garry Disher, Hachette)
Tuesday, 23 May 2017
Well-known crime writer Garry Disher has delivered a slower, more intimate read with Her, a novel that spans 10 years, from 1909 to 1919, set in outback Australia. Her is...
Lady of the Realm (Hoa Pham, Spinifex Press)
Monday, 22 May 2017
Lady of the Realm is the eighth book by writer and founder of Peril Magazine Hoa Pham. The novella follows the story of a young Vietnamese girl, Lien, who seeks...
The Town (Shaun Prescott, Brow Books)
Monday, 22 May 2017
Shaun Prescott’s debut novel is a story of absences, holes and disappearings. An unnamed narrator arrives in an unnamed town in the central west of New South Wales. As he...
Sunlight and Seaweed: An Argument for How to Feed, Power and Clean Up the World (Tim Flannery, Text)
Monday, 22 May 2017
It is difficult to overstate the importance of this concise, convincingly argued view of our world’s prospects for its survival and improvement over the next 33 years (ie to 2050)....
It’s Alive!: Artificial Intelligence from the Logic Piano to Killer Robots (Toby Walsh, LTUP)
Monday, 22 May 2017
The human brain performs all its wondrous tasks on a mere 20 watts of power. By contrast, the world’s most sophisticated computer, IBM’s Watson, uses 80,000 watts. Will computers ever...
Cold War Games (Harry Blutstein, Echo)
Monday, 22 May 2017
The first Olympic Games held in the Southern Hemisphere occurred in Melbourne in 1956, just as the Cold War was gaining momentum, and the same year that Soviet Russia invaded...
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