Me and My Boots (Penny Harrison, illus by Evie Barrow, Little Hare)
Friday, 8 November 2019
Author Penny Harrison exemplifies the beauty in nature and the power of self-expression through her books, which include The Art Garden, Dance with Me and Emily Green’s Garden. Her latest...
Dream team: Emily Rodda & Marc McBride on ‘The Glimme’
Friday, 8 November 2019
Author Emily Rodda and illustrator Marc McBride’s working relationship has spanned nearly 20 years, starting with the first ‘Deltora Quest’ book. Now, the pair are back with a new middle-grade...
State of euphoria: Alison Evans on ‘Euphoria Kids’
Friday, 8 November 2019
Reviewer Jordi Kerr says Alison Evans’ YA novel Euphoria Kids (Echo, February) is ‘a tender, contemporary fairytale about magic, friendship and gender identity’ that follows three trans kids ‘learning to...
Bestsellers: Daniher tops the ladder
Monday, 4 November 2019
AFL alum and Motor Neurone Disease ambassador Neale Daniher has debuted at number one on this week's bestsellers chart with his memoir When All is Said & Done (with Warwick...
A Year in the Mud and the Toast and the Tears: My (semi) rural kind of life (Georgie Brooks, Bad Apple Press)
Thursday, 31 October 2019
In the middle of another stifling summer in suburbia and in desperate need of a ‘tree change’ Georgie Brooks and her young family decide to make the bold move to...
Among the animals: Donna Mazza on ‘Fauna’
Thursday, 31 October 2019
Donna Mazza’s novel Fauna (A&U, February) is set in a near-future in which a woman is enticed into an experimental program that mixes her embryo with genetically edited cells. Reviewer...
No Neat Endings: Stories (Dominic Carew, MidnightSun)
Thursday, 31 October 2019
Dominic Carew sketches masculinity faltering or in crisis in his short story collection No Neat Endings. In these snapshots of manhood, Carew depicts male kinship and identity fraught with the...
Shark Arm: A shark, a tattooed arm and two unsolved murders (Phillip Roope & Kevin Meagher, A&U)
Thursday, 31 October 2019
Shark Arm is an offbeat true crime book that begins with a shark throwing up a man’s tattooed arm in front of onlookers at a Coogee aquarium in 1935. The...
A Couple of Things Before the End: Stories (Sean O’Beirne, Black Inc.)
Thursday, 31 October 2019
The stories in this debut collection from Melbourne writer Sean O’Beirne are written as fictional, often funny monologues, letters, speeches, interviews, texts and emails, diary entries, official reports and online...
Jane in Love (Rachel Givney, Michael Joseph)
Thursday, 31 October 2019
It is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen re-imaginings are an uneven offering. Some are brilliant; some less so. The fundamental challenges of this niche, however, remain constant: that...
Maggie’s Going Nowhere (Rose Hartley, Michael Joseph)
Thursday, 31 October 2019
The eponymous character in Rose Hartley’s debut is introduced in the blurb as thoroughly relatable and a counterpart to Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag. While the comparison feels true on the surface—both...
Climate change and MBS books popular at nonfiction-focused Frankfurt 2019
Wednesday, 30 October 2019
Nonfiction titles dominated this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair (16–20 October), with books on climate change and Mind Body Spirit (MBS) in demand, according to a number of Australian publishers who...
Bestsellers: Elton John memoir rockets to number two
Monday, 28 October 2019
Judy Nunn's Townsville-set historical novel Khaki Town (William Heinemann) is spending its second consecutive week at the top of the bestseller chart as Nunn continues to make her way around...
Bestsellers: Nunn number one
Monday, 21 October 2019
After spending one week in the top spot, Kitty Flanagan's 488 Rules for Life (A&U) has dropped to number two on the bestsellers chart, replaced by Judy Nunn's historical novel...
Windy Hollow makes first North American sale
Thursday, 17 October 2019
Independent children’s publisher Windy Hollow has sold North American rights to the picture book Ivy Bird (Tania McCartney, illus by Jess Racklyeft) to Blue Dot Books. Ivy Bird introduces younger...
‘Definitely Do Not Open This Book’ tops Australian picture book bestsellers chart
Thursday, 17 October 2019
Australian picture book bestsellers: September Andy Lee’s fourth picture book, Definitely Do Not Open This Book (illus by Heath McKenzie), which encourages children not to turn the pages with hilarious...
Self-published ‘Dinner Detectives’ series to be adapted for TV
Thursday, 17 October 2019
Last year, Australian children’s book creators Yves Stening and Nigel Buchanan won a pitching competition at the world’s biggest children’s entertainment industry event, MIPJunior, for their self-published picture-book series ‘Dinner...
Children’s books honoured at environment awards
Thursday, 17 October 2019
Three children’s books with environmental themes have been honoured at the Wilderness Society’s Environment Award for Children’s Literature. They are: the picture book The All New Must Have Orange 430...
Blueberries (Ellena Savage, Text)
Tuesday, 15 October 2019
Ellena Savage’s debut collection of essays, Blueberries, is a breathtaking interrogation of the self in the world; the self within structures of power and oppression. Each essay examines a memory,...
The Medicine: A doctor’s notes (Karen Hitchcock, Black Inc.)
Tuesday, 15 October 2019
When discussing modern medicine there is a lot to consider. There are the complexities of the doctor/patient relationship. The wellbeing of doctors. How responsible treatment and the law sometimes intersect...
Ten Doors Down: The story of an extraordinary adoption reunion (Robert Tickner, Scribe)
Tuesday, 15 October 2019
As the rolling apologies for forced adoptions swept Australia in 2012 and 2013, it was too late for Robert Tickner’s mother—she had died, taking her secrets to the grave. But...
Contest for the Indo-Pacific: Why China won’t map the future (Rory Medcalf, La Trobe University Press)
Tuesday, 15 October 2019
How does the world balance China’s emergence as a global superpower? What are the risks ahead? How do nation states dilute China’s hegemony and avoid capitulation to its interests? These...
Shirl (Wayne Marshall, Affirm)
Tuesday, 15 October 2019
Wayne Marshall’s Shirl is a collection of bizarre, consistently funny stories that delights in dismantling the tropes of Australiana. From the adventures of a bereaved yowie at a Desperate and...
Cherry Beach (Laura McPhee-Browne, Text)
Tuesday, 15 October 2019
When best friends Ness and Hetty move to Canada together, it seems as though a new phase of their lives is beginning—but their shared past won’t relinquish its grip so...
Return Ticket (Jon Doust, Fremantle Press)
Tuesday, 15 October 2019
Jon Doust has now devoted three books to wilful, semi-autobiographical protagonist Jack Muir. While 2009’s Boy on a Wire and 2012’s To the Highlands saw Jack fumbling towards manhood, Return...
Bird (Adam Morris, Puncher & Wattmann)
Tuesday, 15 October 2019
A novel told from multiple viewpoints, Bird examines the Western Australian prison system via the cultural and social constructs that prop it up, while also exploring Indigenous and non-Indigenous identity....
In the Clearing (J P Pomare, Hachette)
Tuesday, 15 October 2019
If J P Pomare’s Call Me Evie was a slow-burner of a psychological thriller, his follow-up, In the Clearing, is a pared-back firecracker where the danger is clear and present—even...
Fauna (Donna Mazza, A&U)
Tuesday, 15 October 2019
Donna Mazza’s Fauna is set in a near-future Western Australia, recognisable but markedly bleaker. Stacey and her family have signed up to an experimental research procedure in which Stacey’s embryo’s...
The Wonderful Wisdom of Ants (Philip Bunting, Scholastic)
Tuesday, 15 October 2019
Ants. What exactly do these tiny, easily overlooked creatures have to teach us? Quite a bit, according to Philip Bunting, whose picture book is funny and informative as he goes...
Extraordinary! (Penny Harrison, illus by Katie Wilson, New Frontier)
Tuesday, 15 October 2019
What a magical book this is! In Extraordinary! Penny Harrison, author of Emily Green’s Garden and Dance With Me, and New Zealand-based illustrator Katie Wilson take the reader on a...
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