Tuesday, 28 January 2025
Amanda Goff was a successful journalist in London and Sydney before leaving her corporate career at 38 to become Samantha X, an escort. She later founded her own escort agency...

Tuesday, 28 January 2025
As a foreign correspondent, Australian journalist Hamish McDonald (Demokrasi) frequently flew in and out of Melanesian hotspots during his career. Fascinated by the region’s complexity, he traversed it slowly by...

Tuesday, 28 January 2025
The Thrill of It is the latest crime novel by Mandy Beaumont, author of the Stella Prize–longlisted The Furies. The story follows Emmerson Kerr, whose grandmother was brutally murdered in...

Tuesday, 28 January 2025
Soaring with the Sugarbird Lady is based on the true story of Robin Miller, who single-handedly flew life-saving vaccines to remote Western Australia in the late 1960s. This new middle-grade novel...

Tuesday, 21 January 2025
Ariana Treasure: The Missing Book is the first in a new series for beginner readers by Jacqueline de Rose-Ahern. Ariana’s family own the Treasure Chest, a local thrift shop filled...

Tuesday, 21 January 2025
The First Sunrise is the first Mbabaram creation story to be published and was passed down to Mbabaram, Yidinji, Kaanju and Taribelang Bunda woman Vanessa Stevens from her father, Colin...

Tuesday, 21 January 2025
Best, First and Last is a fun romance novel that has everything you could ask for: an unexpected, all-expenses-paid holiday, a charming stranger, a nosy family with no concept of...

Tuesday, 21 January 2025
Diana Reid’s third book is an engrossing, meticulously crafted drama that explores memory, trauma, repression and self-preservation, examining how these themes intersect, overlap, are misinterpreted or deliberately distorted to devastating...

Tuesday, 21 January 2025
In Charlotte McConaghy’s latest novel, the aptly named Salt family are the last caretakers of a seed vault on an ocean-battered subantarctic island. In the final weeks before the base...

Tuesday, 21 January 2025
Hawthorn’s Hawks. Footscray’s Bulldogs. North Melbourne’s Kangaroos. Australian Football’s 100 Year Club: Celebrating Three Great Teams celebrates the centenary of these three iconic Aussie Rules clubs in 2025. From the...

Tuesday, 14 January 2025
Noongar-Yamatji youth advocate Brooke Blurton has teamed up with Bigambul and Wakka Wakka author and academic Melanie Saward (Love Unleashed) for a new YA series, beginning with A Good Kind of...

Tuesday, 14 January 2025
Camille works for a semi-famous florist in Armadale, where she commutes daily from her home in the country. She yearns for a life full of beauty and meaning and can’t...

Tuesday, 14 January 2025
Brenda Niall’s portrait of author Joan Lindsay is bookended by her charming recollections of meeting Lindsay in 1984, just months before her death. In the intervening chapters of this concise...

Tuesday, 14 January 2025
Billie Rooney’s educational picture book, Creature Corridors, explores how human infrastructure impacts animal habitats and highlights the role of wildlife corridors in helping animals travel and live safely. The book...

Tuesday, 14 January 2025
Sunny and Shadow is a heartfelt junior fiction novel and intergenerational tale that follows Calla and her descendants, who all have the precious gift of talking with and caring for...

Tuesday, 14 January 2025
Teachers Michael Lawrence (Testing 3, 2, 1) and Fabio D’Agostin (whose PhD was called ‘Task-Related Emotions in Mathematics Education’) have written an informed and considered exploration of the growing crises...