Eat to Heal (Lee Holmes, Rockpool Publishing)
Nonfiction
Released August 2026, reviewed by Jess Lomas.
In Eat to Heal, clinical nutritionist and wholefoods chef Lee Holmes (Heal Your Gut) turns her attention to inflammation, exploring...
Old Bertie (Vincenzo Perrella & Dan Osborn, Fremantle Press)
Young adult
Released August 2026, reviewed by Annie Waters.
Old Bertie is Vincenzo Perrella and Dan Osborn’s debut fiction collaboration, the pair having previously worked together on film, TV...
Bad Neighbours (Joanna Jenkins, Allen & Unwin)
Fiction
Released August 2026, reviewed by Tara Lee.
Joanna Jenkins (How to Kill a Client, The Bluff) examines the Australian property market through a feminist lens in her...
I Love the Whole World! (Victoria Hannan, Penguin)
Fiction
Released August 2026, reviewed by Adalya Nash Hussein.
In her third novel, I Love the Whole World!, Victoria Hannan (Kokomo, Marshmallow) takes a more playful, straightforward and fun...
The Grey Beret’s Guide to Surviving the Odds (Anna Battese, illus Erin Reeves, Simon & Schuster Australia)
Younger readers
Released August 2026, reviewed by Clare Millar.
Anna Battese’s debut middle-grade novel, The Grey Beret’s Guide to Surviving the Odds, illustrated by Erin Reeves, is the first...
There’s a Chicken in the House (Sonya Hartnett, illus Lucia Masciullo, Puffin)
Children’s picture book
Released August 2026, reviewed by Michaela Gallagher.
There’s a Chicken in the House by Sonya Hartnett (Blue Flower) and illustrator Lucia Masciullo (The Flower Garden) is a...
And in the Morning (Lenny Robinson, University of Queensland Press)
Fiction
Released August 2026, reviewed by Eleanor Jackson.
Lenny Robinson’s historical fiction debut, And in the Morning, quietly observes the grief of 3 Australian women grappling with their...
Nothing Personal (Alex Dook, Echo)
Fiction
Released August 2026, reviewed by Aurelia Orr.
In Alex Dook’s Nothing Personal, Lola McKenzie is tired of always being one step ahead, only to find herself two...
A River I Must Be (Kate Foster, HarperCollins)
Younger readers
Released August 2026, reviewed by George Banach-Salas.
A River I Must Be is a middle-grade fiction book in verse by Kate Foster (Freddie Jones: The Mystery of...
The Mystery of Colour: and how we solved it (David Coles, illus Margaux Samson-Abadie, Thames & Hudson)
Children’s picture book
Released August 2026, reviewed by Mark Johnson.
The Mystery of Colour: And How We Solved It, by professional paint-maker and self-titled “real-life colour detective” David Coles (Chromatopia),...
Time Travel for Beginners (Jaclyn Moriarty, Ultimo)
Fiction
Released August 2026, reviewed by Jess Lomas.
If someone offered you the chance to travel into the past, would you believe them? Jaclyn Moriarty’s latest novel, Time...
Sagittarius Rising (Maxine Beneba Clarke, illus Jade Goodwin, Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing)
Younger readers
Released August 2026, reviewed by Tony Doyle.
Sagittarius Rising, by award-winning poet Maxine Beneba Clarke, is a well-crafted chapter book following Tip and their family’s unpredictable yet...
Seize the Moment: Australia’s Real Opportunities in an Unstable World (Bernard Keane, Allen & Unwin)
Nonfiction
Released August 2026, reviewed by Eman Mourad.
In Seize the Moment: Australia’s Real Opportunities in an Unstable World, journalist Bernard Keane uses the last 25 years of...
Quite the Pair (Tobias Madden, Penguin)
Fiction
Released August 2026, reviewed by Samantha Mylan.
Quite the Pair, the adult fiction debut from award-winning YA author Tobias Madden (Take a Bow, Noah Mitchell), is a...
Stuff (Jen Sherrington, illus Hélène Magisson, MidnightSun)
Children’s picture book
Released August 2026, reviewed by Fay Helfenbaum.
In Stuff, by Jen Sherrington and illustrator Hélène Magisson, Morri is “chuffed” when he receives some “stuff” from Birdee. Surely...
Mother Waters (Lisa Nan Joo, Affirm Press)
Fiction
Released August 2026, reviewed by Emma Pei Yin.
Lisa Nan Joo’s debut, Mother Waters, is an atmospheric, quietly unsettling novel that explores ambition, grief, inheritance and the emotional...
A New Kind of Beautiful (Suzy Zail, Walker Books)
Young adult
Released August 2026, reviewed by Heidi Maier.
In Suzy Zail’s A New Kind of Beautiful, 16-year-old Paige Wilding has her future mapped out: win the coveted school...
Once Upon a Breakfast Show (Stephanie MacFie, Text Publishing)
Fiction
Released August 2026, reviewed by Lisa Schuurman.
Stephanie MacFie’s debut, Once Upon a Breakfast Show, is a charming second-chance romantic comedy set in the dynamic world of...
Bandoola (Beverley McWilliams, illus Kate Jones, UWA Publishing)
Younger readers
Released August 2026, reviewed by Karys McEwen.
Bandoola by Beverley McWilliams (Spies in the Sky) follows the life of a Burmese logging elephant, blending fictional storytelling with...
Cass and the Beast (Claire Mabey, illus Jill Calder, Gecko Press)
Children’s picture book
Released August 2026, reviewed by Joy Lawn.
In Claire Mabey’s Cass and the Beast, a young girl, Cass, fears the townsfolk more than the creature they call...
