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...

Tuesday, 11 July 2023
In her first upper-primary novel, Anna Zobel turns her knack for writing emotionally intelligent, likeable, mildly eccentric, diverse characters to the task of creating an engrossing adventure-mystery story for imaginative...

Tuesday, 11 July 2023
While blogs and websites thrive, Australia’s print music press is now largely a thing of the past. But what a past! Built around extensive interviews with many of the key...

Tuesday, 4 July 2023
Anxious in a Sweet Store is the playful and nostalgic second full-length poetry collection from writer and artist Anna Jacobson. Divided into four parts, each named after a classic sweet...

Tuesday, 4 July 2023
Alarmism in both the media and popular politics over China has done a disservice to Australia’s relationship with the neighbouring nation. So argues Engaging China, an academic essay collection that...

Tuesday, 4 July 2023
Winner of the 2022 HarperCollins Banjo Prize for Fiction, Steph Vizard’s debut novel The Love Contract is a tantalising romance set in Melbourne that combines the classic enemies-to-lovers and fake-relationship-turned-real-romance...