Search History (Amy Taylor, A&U)
Tuesday, 4 April 2023
Most of us have left some kind of regrettable imprint on the internet. It’s with this discarded online ephemera that anxiety swells about what people may make of it all—including...
Where I Slept (Libby Angel, Text)
Tuesday, 4 April 2023
Where I Slept, by award-winning poet and author Libby Angel, is a sharp and sobering piece of autofiction that follows a struggling, unnamed poet/artist living on the margins in 1990s...
Media Monsters (Sally Young, NewSouth)
Tuesday, 4 April 2023
After breaking through to the mainstream with her 2019 Stella Prize-longlisted book Paper Emperors, academic Sally Young continues to expose the dark interplay between Australian media and politics with Media...
Anam (André Dao, Hamish Hamilton)
Tuesday, 4 April 2023
Winner of the 2021 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript, Anam is a remarkable debut novel exploring memory, family, colonialism and displacement. The narrator, a young Vietnamese-Australian man...
Sam Neill memoir debuts at number two
Friday, 31 March 2023
Top 10 bestsellers Bluey: Happy Easter (Puffin) Did I Ever Tell You This? (Sam Neill, Text) I Will Find You (Harlan Coben, Century) Bluey: Easter (Puffin) RecipeTin Eats: Dinner (Nagi...
Books in the media this weekend, 1–2 April
Friday, 31 March 2023
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Blue Hunger (Viola di Grando, Scribe) Hard To Bear (Isabelle Oderberg,...
Desert Jungle (Jeannie Baker, Walker)
Tuesday, 28 March 2023
Nearly seven years since her last picture storybook, Jeannie Baker returns in top form with Desert Jungle, a breath of fresh air in children’s books, offering a humble and vital...
Orphia and Eurydicius (Elyse John, HarperCollins)
Tuesday, 28 March 2023
Set against the backdrop of ancient Greece in a time of myth and heroism, Orphia and Eurydicius is a tale of love, courage, feminine power and the strength of stories...
Bluey celebrates Easter with top spot
Monday, 27 March 2023
Top 10 bestsellers Bluey: Happy Easter (Puffin) I Will Find You (Harlan Coben, Century) Never Never (Colleen Hoover & Tarryn Fisher, HQ) Bluey: Easter (Puffin) 23rd Midnight (James Patterson, Century)...
Books in the media this weekend, 25–26 March
Friday, 24 March 2023
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper The Exclusion Zone (Shastra Deo, UQP) Freedom Only Freedom (Behrouz Boochani,...
The Albatross (Nina Wan, Macmillan)
Tuesday, 21 March 2023
It’s widely known that an albatross is a very rare bird. In golf, it’s a move that’s even rarer—one that’s considered lucky, executed with the utmost finesse. And golf is...
We Could Be Something (Will Kostakis, A&U Children’s)
Tuesday, 21 March 2023
Will Kostakis’s first novel Loathing Lola was published when he was 19 years old. This uncommon experience inspires his latest book, a semi-autobiographical YA novel for readers aged 14–17. We...
Who’s Afraid of the Light? (Anna McGregor, Scribble)
Tuesday, 21 March 2023
Two seagulls bob on top of a flat ocean on a sunny day. ‘Oh, hi!’ says one. ‘The story starts down there,’ says the other, dipping its head beneath the...
Eta Draconis (Brendan Ritchie, UWAP)
Tuesday, 21 March 2023
Eta Draconis is Brendan Ritchie’s impressive third novel and the winner of the 2022 Dorothy Hewett Award. This road trip story centres around two sisters, Elora and Vivienne, who are...
New formats put Garmus, Reid back in top 10
Friday, 17 March 2023
Top 10 bestsellers Never Never (Colleen Hoover & Tarryn Fisher, HQ) Bluey: Happy Easter (Puffin) 23rd Midnight (James Patterson, Century) It Starts With Us (Colleen Hoover, S&S) Bluey: Easter (Puffin) Lessons in Chemistry...
Books in the media this weekend 18–19 March
Friday, 17 March 2023
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Old Babes in the Wood (Margaret Atwood, C&W) Tanya Plibersek: On...
The Heart is a Star (Megan Rogers, HarperCollins)
Wednesday, 15 March 2023
The Heart is a Star is the captivating debut novel by talented writer Megan Rogers. We are introduced to anaesthetist Layla Byrnes, a middle-aged woman struggling to reconcile her career,...
Glimpse (Jane Higgins, Text)
Tuesday, 14 March 2023
Jane Higgins’s dystopian YA debut The Bridge was the winner of the 2010 Text Prize, and her latest, Glimpse, has the same qualities that won Higgins the prize. Inspired by...
All About the Heart (Remi Kowalski, illus by Tonia Composto, Berbay)
Tuesday, 14 March 2023
All About the Heart by paediatric cardiologist Remi Kowalski and graphic designer Tonia Composto is the first in Berbay’s new nonfiction picture book series for four- to eight-year-olds. Kowalski and...
She and Her Pretty Friend (Danielle Scrimshaw, Ultimo)
Tuesday, 14 March 2023
Danielle Scrimshaw’s debut, She and Her Pretty Friend, is a history of queer Australian women. In a light and intriguing tone, Scrimshaw pieces together what little evidence there is—letters, diary entries,...
The Sideways Orbit of Evie Hart (Samera Kamaleddine, HarperCollins)
Tuesday, 14 March 2023
When 12-year-old Evie’s mum and stepdad Lee announce their separation, it feels like her whole world has been turned upside down. What’s more, Lee—the only father Evie has ever known—is...
The Fall Between (Darcy Tindale, Bantam)
Tuesday, 14 March 2023
The first body is waiting for Detective Rebecca Giles on a property in Muswellbrook, floating in a water trough. Giles is fresh out of a missing-persons case wrapped up in...
Four new titles debut in top 10
Tuesday, 14 March 2023
Top 10 bestsellers Never Never (Colleen Hoover & Tarryn Fisher, HQ) Things We Hide From the Light (Lucy Score, Hodder) It Starts With Us (Colleen Hoover, S&S) Heart Bones (Colleen...
Books in the media this weekend 11–12 March
Friday, 10 March 2023
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Barron Field in New South Wales: The poetics of terra nullius...
Pape, Maehashi, Harper in top 10 print, ebook combined bestsellers for 2022
Wednesday, 8 March 2023
Scott Pape's Barefoot Kids (HarperCollins), Nagi Maehashi's RecipeTin Eats: Dinner (Macmillan) and Jane Harper's Exiles (Macmillan) are the only Australian titles to make it onto the Nielsen Top 10 print...
After the Rain (Aisling Smith, Hachette)
Tuesday, 7 March 2023
Aisling Smith’s debut novel, After the Rain, is the melancholic and moving winner of the 2020 Richell Prize. The story begins with Malti, a woman who moved from Fiji to...
Obsession (Nicole Madigan, Pantera)
Tuesday, 7 March 2023
When journalist Nicole Madigan starts dating single dad Adam, it seems like the beginning of an exciting new chapter for her and her children. But as the relationship progresses, something...
‘Heart Bones’ hits number one
Monday, 6 March 2023
Top 10 bestsellers Heart Bones (Colleen Hoover, S&S) It Starts with Us (Colleen Hoover, S&S) RecipeTin Eats: Dinner (Nagi Maehashi, Macmillan) It Ends With Us (Colleen Hoover, S&S) Someone Else’s Shoes (Jojo Moyes, Michael Joseph)...
Books in the media this weekend 4–5 March
Friday, 3 March 2023
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Political Lives: Australian prime ministers and their biographers (Chris Wallace, NewSouth)...
Hunger of Thorns (Lili Wilkinson, A&U Children’s)
Tuesday, 28 February 2023
Lili Wilkinson’s new YA novel is a dark and twisting tale that draws on a history of persecution and celebrates the power of women, even as it interrogates society’s fear...
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