Tuesday, 16 June 2026
In Alex Dook’s Nothing Personal, Lola McKenzie is tired of always being one step ahead, only to find herself two steps back. Her father, broke after a few years of...

Tuesday, 16 June 2026
A River I Must Be is a middle-grade fiction book in verse by Kate Foster (Freddie Jones: The Mystery of the Troublesome Trees, Harriet Hound), told from the perspective of...

Tuesday, 16 June 2026
The Mystery of Colour: And How We Solved It, by professional paint-maker and self-titled “real-life colour detective” David Coles (Chromatopia), invites young readers to discover the bizarre, sometimes gruesome and...

Tuesday, 16 June 2026
If someone offered you the chance to travel into the past, would you believe them? Jaclyn Moriarty’s latest novel, Time Travel for Beginners, centres on a mysterious Sydney agency that...

Tuesday, 16 June 2026
Sagittarius Rising, by award-winning poet Maxine Beneba Clarke, is a well-crafted chapter book following Tip and their family’s unpredictable yet lovable dog, Sagittarius Rising. The story moves through a range...

Tuesday, 16 June 2026
In Seize the Moment: Australia’s Real Opportunities in an Unstable World, journalist Bernard Keane uses the last 25 years of global politics and economics as a framework for considering Australia’s...

Tuesday, 16 June 2026
Quite the Pair, the adult fiction debut from award-winning YA author Tobias Madden (Take a Bow, Noah Mitchell), is a warm and emotionally insightful exploration of friendship in modern adulthood....

Tuesday, 16 June 2026
In Stuff, by Jen Sherrington and illustrator Hélène Magisson, Morri is “chuffed” when he receives some “stuff” from Birdee. Surely more stuff would be even better, Morri thinks. Before long,...

Tuesday, 9 June 2026
Stephanie MacFie’s debut, Once Upon a Breakfast Show, is a charming second-chance romantic comedy set in the dynamic world of Melbourne breakfast radio. Emily Blake is one half of Mack...

Tuesday, 9 June 2026
Bandoola by Beverley McWilliams (Spies in the Sky) follows the life of a Burmese logging elephant, blending fictional storytelling with events inspired by history. Set predominantly in the first half...

Tuesday, 9 June 2026
In Claire Mabey’s Cass and the Beast, a young girl, Cass, fears the townsfolk more than the creature they call Beast. She empathises with the creature, offering bread to assuage...

Tuesday, 9 June 2026
In her debut memoir, Juicy: How to Live a Life in the Wreckage of Expectations, Lebanese Australian journalist and writer Sheree Joseph traces her 30s through grief, family, relationships and...

Tuesday, 2 June 2026
Sophie, Standing There is the long-awaited new novel from Meg Mason (Sorrow and Bliss). Newly single 37-year-old sound technician Sophie Pattison is adjusting to life as an “unregarded” divorcee. Just...

Tuesday, 2 June 2026
Zanni L Arnot returns with Us in the Bright Lights, a romantic adventure that builds on the promise of her YA debut, A Guide to Falling Off the Map. Arnot...

Tuesday, 2 June 2026
Anthony Byrt’s debut novel, Dying Days, is a fast-paced, assured espionage novel that expertly weaves compelling fiction with real historical events. Set in Trieste in May 1945, in the immediate...

Tuesday, 2 June 2026
Anton Clifford-Motopi’s Stuck in the Middle is a lively, heartfelt comedy for readers aged 8 to 12, capturing the chaos and warmth of life in a big family. Leon, one...

Tuesday, 2 June 2026
In A Bigger Book, Hannah Sommerville’s first solo picture book for readers aged 4 to 8, the author-illustrator captures the difficult transition some children experience when they move from picture...

Tuesday, 2 June 2026
Historian and author Tom Griffiths was 14 when he discovered Alice Duncan-Kemp’s Where Strange Paths Go Down at his school library. Detailing life in rural south-west Queensland at the turn...

Tuesday, 26 May 2026
Funny Fairytales by Tim Harris, illustrated by Christopher Nielsen, sees the creator of the Mr Bambuckle’s Remarkables series turn his trademark humour to fractured fairytales. He reworks 5 familiar stories...

Tuesday, 26 May 2026
Written during her time as the inaugural Parramatta Laureate in Literature, Yumna Kassab (Politica, The Lovers) turns her eye to nonfiction with Parramatta: A Dictionary of Place and Memory, though...

Tuesday, 26 May 2026
My Dad Makes the World Go Around and Around by Maddy Mara – the pen name for Hilary Rogers and Meredith Badger – is an uplifting story celebrating all the...

Tuesday, 19 May 2026
Bradley Dryburgh has done more than write his own eulogy: he has created a memento mori – a reminder of mortality – despite being one of the last people who...