Sanctuary (Garry Disher, Text)
Tuesday, 27 February 2024
Grace has been stealing her whole life. She is an expert thief, taught by pros and specialising in small, high-value items, such as stamps and watches. However, a life of...
Wurrtoo (Tylissa Elisara, illus Dylan Finney, Lothian)
Tuesday, 27 February 2024
As a Nunga woman reading to her young Nunga and Murri son, Tylissa Elisara was fed up with the lack of First Nations representation in her beloved childhood stories. Wurrtoo...
Deep Water (James Bradley, Hamish Hamilton)
Tuesday, 27 February 2024
The first chapter of Deep Water is named ‘The Word for World Is Water’, a reference to science fiction writer Ursula K Le Guin’s novella The Word for World Is...
Those Girls (Pamela Rushby, Walker)
Tuesday, 27 February 2024
When Australia entered World War II, new possibilities emerged for women to enter the services, work in munitions or uniform factories, or join the Land Army to fill the workforce...
Deep Is the Fen (Lili Wilkinson, A&U Children’s)
Tuesday, 20 February 2024
Lili Wilkinson’s latest fantasy novel is set in the same magical world as her Victorian Premier's Literary Award–winning novel, A Hunger of Thorns. It’s a realm where all magic is...
Italian Coastal (Amber Guinness, T&H)
Tuesday, 20 February 2024
Amber Guinness’s Italian Coastal: Recipes and stories from where the land meets the sea takes readers on a tour of the seven Italian regions that sit on the Tyrrhenian Sea—places...
The Glass House (Anne Buist & Graeme Simsion, Hachette)
Tuesday, 20 February 2024
Graeme Simsion is well-known for The Rosie Project, and Anne Buist for her crime novels. Partners in real life, their new collaboration, The Glass House, showcases their talent and fields of interest where...
Jerry’s Window (Y K Willemse, Wombat Books)
Tuesday, 20 February 2024
In the spirit of Dennis the Menace, 10-year-old Jerry Ronden is a notorious nightmare. His parents are at a loss as he torments his school and neighbours with pranks, stink...
Frog Squad: Dessert Disaster (Kate Temple & Jol Temple, illus Shiloh Gordon, HarperCollins)
Tuesday, 20 February 2024
Prepare yourselves, Bin Chicken and Underdogs fans (among others): the unstoppable force that is Kate and Jol Temple (That Bird Has Arms) has a new series. The first book, Frog...
It Takes a Town (Aoife Clifford, Ultimo)
Tuesday, 20 February 2024
Aoife Clifford’s latest crime novel, It Takes a Town, is set in the fictional town of Welcome. This small town produced a superstar talent, Vanessa ‘Baby Vee’ Walton, who tap-danced...
Happy All Over (Emma Quay, ABC Books)
Tuesday, 20 February 2024
Happy All Over is exactly that. Emma Quay’s capacity to capture miniatures of joy, through both word and image, will bring a smile to even the most careworn and cynical...
The Most Famous Boy in Town (Bel Schenk, Espresso)
Tuesday, 20 February 2024
Bel Schenk’s latest work and her fourth publication, The Most Famous Boy in Town, delves into the intricate relationship dynamics in Charlotte Bay, a coastal community that unravels in the...
Black Silk & Sympathy (Deborah Challinor, HarperCollins)
Tuesday, 20 February 2024
Deborah Challinor’s latest offering, Black Silk & Sympathy, sweeps readers away to the intriguing world of Victorian funeral customs in 1860s Sydney. In this expertly crafted novel, Challinor delivers a...
Girt by Sea: Re-imagining Australia’s security (Rebecca Strating & Joanne Wallis, La Trobe)
Tuesday, 13 February 2024
In their thought-provoking book, Girt by Sea: Re-imagining Australia’s security, Rebecca Strating and Joanne Wallis challenge conventional notions of Australia’s security. This book invites readers to rethink the country’s approach...
No Church in the Wild (Murray Middleton, Picador)
Tuesday, 13 February 2024
Stereotypes and bad press about the commission towers of Melbourne’s inner west are easy to come by, but Vogel winner Murray Middleton’s deeply researched and complex portrayal of this community...
The Gorgon Flower (John Richards, UQP)
Tuesday, 13 February 2024
John Richards’s The Gorgon Flower is a collection of six short stories (and the title novella), for fans of the macabre and peculiar. This is a collection both classic and...
Pidge’s Poppies (Jan Andrews, illus Timothy Ide, Ford St)
Tuesday, 13 February 2024
Pidge’s Poppies by Jan Andrews, illustrated by Timothy Ide (Medieval Monsters and Other Creatures), is a charming lesson on the role of carrier pigeons during war, encouraging young readers to...
Signal Erased (Adele Jones, Rhiza Edge)
Tuesday, 13 February 2024
Signal Erased is the latest YA near-science-fiction novel by Adele Jones. The story follows Anna Faraday, a high schooler with a remarkable singing voice and a traumatic past. While occupied with...
Audrey’s Gone AWOL (Annie de Monchaux, Ultimo)
Tuesday, 13 February 2024
Annie de Monchaux’s debut novel, Audrey’s Gone AWOL, is a beautifully crafted and witty coming-of-middle-age tale that explores womanhood, motherhood, life, death, marriage and betrayal. Audrey has devoted her life...
The Pinchers and the Diamond Heist (Anders Sparring, illus Per Gustavsson, Gecko Press)
Tuesday, 13 February 2024
Anders Sparring’s The Pinchers and the Diamond Heist is a first-in-series chapter book that ticks many boxes young primary school children love: comedy, crime, and fun family connections. Opening with...
Alice™: The biggest untold story in the history of money (Stuart Kells, MUP)
Tuesday, 13 February 2024
An Australian inventor patented the future of world finance. An Australian journalist saw what finance had become and told the world. Business and finance writer Stuart Kells (The Library: A...
When the World Was Soft (Juluwarlu Group Aboriginal Corporation, A&U Children’s)
Tuesday, 13 February 2024
The Juluwarlu Group Aboriginal Corporation (based in Roebourne and Ngurrawaana Community, in WA’s Pilbara region) has compiled Yindjibarndi Creation Stories in a compelling and beautiful graphic novel format. For readers...
The Cave (Victor Kelleher, Eagle Books)
Tuesday, 6 February 2024
In Victor Kelleher’s upper-middle-grade prehistoric adventure novel The Cave, young Irian—one of the few survivors after the Beast (a sabre-toothed tiger) attacks the cave where he lives—is traumatised into muteness...
How to Knit a Human (Anna Jacobson, NewSouth)
Tuesday, 6 February 2024
The contents of Anna Jacobson’s memoir How to Knit a Human are the stuff of nightmares: a young, award-winning artist and poet has a psychotic break, is involuntarily hospitalised and...
Amma (Saraid de Silva, Moa Press)
Tuesday, 6 February 2024
Annie Fernando has flown to London to meet her estranged uncle Suri. So begins the captivating tale of family, love and secrets told through the lives of three generations of...
Excitable Boy: Essays on risk (Dominic Gordon, Upswell)
Tuesday, 6 February 2024
Dominic Gordon’s Excitable Boy: Essays on risk is a collection of punchy vignettes about his life growing up in Melbourne in the 1990s and early 2000s. Gordon sets out an...
Seed to Sky: Life in the Daintree (Pamela Freeman, illus Liz Anelli, Walker)
Tuesday, 6 February 2024
With breathtaking illustrations, Seed to Sky: Life in the Daintree is packed with fun facts about the animals and plants native to the Daintree Rainforest region. After the success of...
Mitchell Itches (Kristin Kelly, illus Amelina Jones, EK Books)
Tuesday, 6 February 2024
With one in five children living with eczema, Mitchell Itches will be a valuable resource for those looking to better understand and manage this common condition. Written by nurse and preschool...
Pheasants Nest (Louise Milligan, A&U)
Tuesday, 6 February 2024
Pheasants Nest is a thriller about every journalist’s nightmare—that they, too, will be reduced to clickbait headlines and long-form reflective true crime essays. There may be no more fitting journalist...
Roarsome (Joel Slack-Smith, illus Rebel Challenger, Scholastic)
Tuesday, 6 February 2024
Roarsome is the first book in a new illustrated junior fiction series by TV comedy writer Joel Slack-Smith. Like many kids, Walter wants the latest tech for his birthday—a nitro-powered...
