Tuesday, 28 November 2023
Since quitting alcohol in 2018, Queensland-based writer Victoria Vanstone has been sharing sobriety advice as a blogger and as co-host of the Sober Awkward podcast. Now, in her memoir, A...

Tuesday, 28 November 2023
Marie O’Rourke’s book of memoir essays, Kintsugi, shortlisted for the 2022 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award, takes its title from the Japanese art of repairing broken ceramics with lacquer mixed...

Tuesday, 28 November 2023
We All Lived in Bondi Then is the last publication of new work by Georgia Blain. This collection comprises nine previously unpublished stories written between 2012 and 2015, before Blain’s...

Tuesday, 28 November 2023
It’s Nova’s dad’s birthday, and she has made him a special masterpiece drawing as his present. It’s nearly time for the party, but she can’t find the drawing! (‘Where is...

Tuesday, 28 November 2023
Imagine a completely digital future, with people connected via nanotechnology, attaining ultimate convenience at the price of absolute surveillance—good for people who like where they are, bad for those who...

Tuesday, 28 November 2023
The Beehive is a new informational picture book by teacher-librarian and author Megan Daley and CBCA-shortlisted illustrator Max Hamilton. The two have combined their talents to create a charming and...

Tuesday, 21 November 2023
In an author’s note, Bonny Cassidy explains that Monument, her genre-bending literary memoir, structured around the branches of her White Australian family, began as a private project, but in clarifying her...

Tuesday, 14 November 2023
One day, Chico’s owners leave the gate open, and he embarks on an epic playdate with his doggy friends, including Gary the Greyhound and Penelope the Poodle. Chico soon discovers...

Tuesday, 14 November 2023
A Dance with Murder is the second outing for private investigator Edwina ‘Ted’ Bristol and her sidekick, Miss Marple, an intelligent and perceptive miniature schnauzer, following A Routine Infidelity (February,...