The Half Brother (Christine Keighery, Ultimo)
Tuesday, 7 February 2023
Psychological thriller The Half Brother is the first adult novel by Christine Keighery, a prolific author of children’s and young adult books. The novel opens with alternating chapters from the...
Pasta! (Felice Arena, illus by Beatrice Cerrochi, Affirm)
Tuesday, 7 February 2023
Pasta! is a delightfully bright picture book celebrating the world’s favourite food: pasta. Inviting even from the title page, which features a tabby cat sitting in front of an open...
Bowerbird Blues (Aura Parker, Scholastic)
Tuesday, 7 February 2023
Bowerbird Blues follows a feverishly determined bowerbird on a mission to collect not just all the fabulous blue items he can possibly find but also something else he can’t quite...
Country Tells Us When… (Tsheena Cooper, Mary Dann, Dalisa Pigram-Ross & Sheree Ford, ILF)
Tuesday, 7 February 2023
Country Tells Us When… follows the feelings, smells, sights, tastes and sounds of Yawuru Country changing with each season, written and illustrated by educators Tsheena Cooper, Mary Dann, Dalisa Pigram-Ross,...
The Anniversary (Stephanie Bishop, Hachette)
Tuesday, 7 February 2023
The Anniversary is a book that’s hard to describe: the writing is quiet, meandering, full of thoughts on art and the act of creative expression. And yet, it is also...
The Last Daughter (Brenda Matthews, Text)
Tuesday, 7 February 2023
The Last Daughter might be one of the most important books an Australian could read. In particular, it counteracts misconceptions and disinformation about the Stolen Generations. Brenda Matthews, proud Wiradjuri...
Democracy! (Philip Bunting, Little Hare)
Wednesday, 1 February 2023
In his latest release, prolific children’s author Philip Bunting continues to display his talent for creating engaging and brightly hued nonfiction. In Democracy!, it is firmly asserted that ‘people power’...
I Don’t Need Therapy (Toni Lodge, A&U)
Tuesday, 31 January 2023
Podcaster Toni Lodge has garnered a following for her candid, confessional and always comical videos in conversation with co-host Ryan Jon. Yet, in her memoir, I Don’t Need Therapy (and...
Love & Autism (Kay Kerr, Macmillan)
Tuesday, 31 January 2023
Apart from the obvious audience—fans of the award-winning TV series Love on the Spectrum—Love & Autism by CBCA nominee Kay Kerr will also appeal to readers who like to be...
A Joyful Life (Rosemary Kariuki with Summer Land, Hardie Grant Explore)
Tuesday, 31 January 2023
During the summer break, I had the pleasure of reading A Joyful Life by Rosemary Kariuki in one day. As a woman of colour who has experienced trauma, I was...
Anchored (Debra Tidball, illus by Arielle Li, EK Books)
Tuesday, 31 January 2023
A sensitive tale of connection near, far and across the waters, Anchored is a hopeful, heartwarming story demonstrating to young children that no matter the distance between them and a...
The Quiet and the Loud (Helena Fox, Pan)
Tuesday, 31 January 2023
Helena Fox, author of award-winning debut How It Feels to Float, returns with another powerful, heart-tugging YA novel. Nine years after her dad disappeared under the lake, 18-year-old George is...
The Prize (Kim E Anderson, Pantera)
Tuesday, 31 January 2023
In 1943, artists William (or Bill, as he prefers) Dobell and Joshua Smith are friends and lovers, sharing intimacies at idyllic scenes on Lake Macquarie while working on their art....
Glass Houses (Anne Coombs, Upswell)
Tuesday, 31 January 2023
Glass Houses is Anne Coombs’s (Sex and Anarchy: The life and death of the Sydney Push) posthumous final novel. Perched on a ‘neglected hillside’ near the fictional town of Glaston...
The Rocket-Powered Racing Caravan (C E Hayes, Omnibus Books)
Tuesday, 24 January 2023
Endless homework, out-of-touch teachers, imperfect parents, failed first dates and, of course, bullies. Grade Seven is a tough gig! How on earth is Earl Grey going to survive the year?...
Return to Valetto (Dominic Smith, A&U)
Tuesday, 24 January 2023
This is the sixth novel from Australian-American author Dominic Smith, perhaps best known locally for his 2017 ABIA-winning novel The Last Painting of Sara de Vos. The fictional Valetto, in...
Fed to Red Birds (Rijn Collins, S&S)
Tuesday, 24 January 2023
Rijn Collins’s novel Fed to Red Birds is beguiling and moody. Our heroine, Elva, is an Australian–Icelandic woman in her mid-20s. She’s living in Reykjavik to learn Icelandic, connect with...
Nightbirds (Kate J Armstrong, A&U Children’s)
Tuesday, 24 January 2023
Magic is illegal in Simta, punishable by death, but that does not mean it does not exist. Matilde, Æsa, and Sayer are nightbirds: privileged girls who have the ability to...
Everywhen (ed by Ann McGrath, Laura Rademaker & Jakelin Troy, UNSW Press)
Tuesday, 24 January 2023
Since the colonisation of Australia, representations of Indigenous peoples and Indigenous worldviews created by anthropologists, archaeologists and historians (among other disciplines) have rendered Indigenous subjectivities and ontologies as lesser. Everywhen:...
Mama’s Chickens (Michelle Worthington, illus by Nicky Johnston, EK Books)
Tuesday, 17 January 2023
Mama doesn’t like chickens. But when she gets some of her own, they quickly develop a relationship of gentle camaraderie. Then Mama begins to forget things, like where she is...
The Glow (Sofie Laguna, illus by Marc McBride, A&U Children’s)
Tuesday, 17 January 2023
The Song of Lewis Carmichael brought us the excellent pairing of author Sofie Laguna and illustrator Marc McBride. The Glow is their latest collaboration, a thrilling sci-fi adventure with a...
Children of Tomorrow (J R Burgmann, Upswell)
Tuesday, 17 January 2023
J R Burgmann’s debut novel is an intergenerational story that foresees a century of environmental devastation. We begin in the present day, when one of our protagonists, Arne, bears witness...
The Wakes (Dianne Yarwood, Hachette)
Tuesday, 17 January 2023
When Clare’s husband tells her one night that he’s unhappy, she’s not sure what to do—but helping her new friend Louisa start a funeral catering business is the last thing...
One Illumined Thread (Sally Colin-James, Fourth Estate)
Tuesday, 17 January 2023
Fans of Sarah Winman and Pip Williams will love Sally Colin-James’s debut novel One Illumined Thread, an intriguing story of three women separated by centuries yet inextricably connected by their...
Judgement Day (Mali Waugh, Macmillan)
Tuesday, 17 January 2023
Mali Waugh’s debut novel opens with an omniscient narrator observing that there were no signs or omens that family court judge Kaye Bailey was to be murdered that day. Due...
Dark Mode (Ashley Kalagian Blunt, Ultimo)
Tuesday, 10 January 2023
Dark Mode opens with the graphic discovery of a woman disturbingly murdered in the same way as the infamous, unsolved case of the Black Dahlia. Also disturbing for Reagan Carsen,...
Once a Stranger (Zoya Patel, Hachette)
Tuesday, 10 January 2023
Following on from her debut memoir No Country Woman, Zoya Patel’s novel Once a Stranger tackles the same themes of cultural bereavement, being caught between two different worlds and the...
Matt Formston: Surfing in the Dark (John Dickson, illus by Philip Bunting, Berbay)
Tuesday, 10 January 2023
People who are blind, who achieve incredible feats, are the linchpin of ‘Big Visions’, an exciting new nonfiction picture book series from Berbay Books and Vision Australia, aimed at 7–12-year-olds...
Temperance (Carol Lefevre, Wakefield)
Tuesday, 10 January 2023
Award-winning author Carol Lefevre’s latest novel, Temperance, is the touching story of a woman attempting to make sense of a childhood memory. The book begins in 1963 in South Australia,...
Downtown Sewertown (Tull Suwannakit, Ford St)
Tuesday, 10 January 2023
CBCA notable author-illustrator Tull Suwannakit has crafted his picture book Downtown Sewertown to depict a refugee experience. It is also a cautionary tale about the environment. A mouse, fox, rabbit...
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