Tuesday, 1 August 2023
With his parents in jail for drug dealing, high-school student Ethan goes to live with his Aunt Helen, a supermarket stacker who dreams of the Greek Islands. He gets by...

Tuesday, 1 August 2023
Ned Kelly award-winning author and musician-songwriter Dave Warner revisits characters from his 1999 novel Big Bad Blood. Set two years after the events of that book, in 1967, Summer of...

Tuesday, 1 August 2023
Yen-Rong Wong’s Me, Her, Us encapsulates the Asian female body experience in a post-pandemic world. Wong oscillates between belonging and unbelonging in this bold-yet-anxious slice of Asian-Australian diaspora experience. The work is broken...

Tuesday, 25 July 2023
By replacing human characters with a diverse range of animals, such as bears, dragons, fish, and dogs, Your Head's Not the Place to Store Problems skilfully demonstrates to children the...

Tuesday, 25 July 2023
The year is 1997—the era of Jerry Maguire and Scream, dial-up modems, and rising anti-Asian sentiment in the heavily politicised Australian town of Whitlam. Poet Lang Leav’s debut novel revolves...

Tuesday, 25 July 2023
Elise Esther Hearst’s impressive debut novel One Day We’re All Going To Die is introspective, evocative and imbued with poetic simplicity. With a playfully dark narrative, the book follows 27-year-old...

Tuesday, 18 July 2023
Perhaps it’s no coincidence that Alice Pung’s new middle-grade heroine nearly shares a name with Joyce Lankester Brisley’s much-loved creation: if you tried to write a version of Milly-Molly-Mandy in...

Tuesday, 18 July 2023
Nadine J Cohen’s debut novel, Everyone and Everything, opens with 34-year-old Yael Silver swimming at a women-only ocean pool following a recent suicide attempt. The pool, built deep into a cliff...

Tuesday, 18 July 2023
Kate Mildenhall’s latest novel, The Hummingbird Effect, follows the struggles of four women in a world completely transformed by time. The book follows four protagonists; in 1933, Peggy adjusts to life in a...

Tuesday, 18 July 2023
Our Country: Where History Happened is the second title by the creative duo Mark Greenwood and Frané Lessac. This nonfiction picture book contextualises the many different corners of Australia’s history for...

Tuesday, 18 July 2023
For 17-year-old Nick Wheatley and his long-time best friend and next-door neighbour, Marion Perry, school has finished for good, adulthood beckons and their lives are nudging them in different directions....

Tuesday, 18 July 2023
Amy Doak’s debut, Eleanor Jones is Not a Murderer, is a young adult mystery novel for aspiring detectives. Eleanor thinks of herself as an unexceptional person with medium hair, skin, height and...

Wednesday, 12 July 2023
Country Town is the first picture book for both historical novelist Isolde Martyn and Aboriginal Studies teacher Robyn Ridgeway. From a fusion of interesting factoids about real Australian towns, Martyn...

Tuesday, 11 July 2023
A little dragon named Donny knows that dragons are meant to do one thing: breathe fire. But he has trouble getting the hang of it, unlike his friends, who shoot...