Milly Meelyu (Holly Bradley & Darryl Fogarty, illus Corinne Fogarty, Fremantle)
Tuesday, 13 January 2026
Milly Meelyu is a thoughtful exploration of environment and wildlife protection, written by conservation biologist Holly Bradley and Badimia Elder Darryl Fogarty. Milly Meelyu is a skink who lives in...
How Do You Hide a Hippo? (Rebecca Grant, illus Jedda Robaard, Little Book Press)
Tuesday, 13 January 2026
Rebecca Grant’s How Do You Hide a Hippo? is a playful picture book that invites young readers to join a child’s increasingly silly attempts to conceal a hippo in unlikely...
Growing Up Digital: Helping Your Kids and Teens Navigate Life Online (Susan McLean, A&U)
Tuesday, 13 January 2026
Growing Up Digital, by Australia’s leading cybersafety expert, Susan McLean, is a grounded and genuinely useful guide for parents navigating life online with their children in an increasingly complex digital...
The Woman in the Spotlight (JR Lonie, HarperCollins)
Tuesday, 13 January 2026
In JR Lonie’s newest historical thriller, The Woman in the Spotlight, a young performer must outwit the oppressive control of the Nazi regime. Monika Varády, a Bavarian actress newly arrived...
Freddie Jones: The Mystery of the Troublesome Trees (Kate Foster, Walker)
Tuesday, 13 January 2026
Freddie Jones is an adventurer at heart. The first in a new series by award-winning author Kate Foster (Harriet Hound), Freddie Jones: The Mystery of the Troublesome Trees is a...
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Wednesday, 7 January 2026
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Wednesday, 17 December 2025
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Jane Curry named S&S ANZ managing director; Arts Queensland Poetry Award winners; 2026 fiction and poetry previews
Wednesday, 10 December 2025
Local news In local news, the State Library Victoria responded in more detail to media reporting of a leaked document outlining job and service cuts and redeployments; and a philanthropic...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 10 December 2025
Sales Fiction HarperCollins Australia has sold world (ex ANZ) rights to Lonely Mouth (Jacqueline Maley), On the Edge (Kate Horan) and The Love Contract (Steph Vizard). The company has also sold...
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Wednesday, 10 December 2025
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Meltdown (Lauren Novak, HarperCollins)
Tuesday, 9 December 2025
Meltdown is a heavily researched yet highly accessible examination of “mum rage”, the gendered term the book uses to describe anger experienced in motherhood, exploring why it happens and how...
Red Star Rebels (Amie Kaufman, A&U Children’s)
Tuesday, 9 December 2025
Amie Kaufman is a well-known name in young adult speculative fiction, particularly for the bestselling Starbound and Illuminae Files series (co-authored with Megan Spooner and Jay Kristoff respectively). Red Star...
Romeo v Juliet (RA Spratt, Penguin)
Tuesday, 9 December 2025
Bestselling author RA Spratt’s Romeo v Juliet is a light-hearted time-travelling comedy that will appeal to older middle-grade and younger YA audiences aged 12 and up. When 16-year-old Selby, a...
My Brother Otto (Ingrid Laguna, Text)
Tuesday, 9 December 2025
In My Brother Otto, Ingrid Laguna (Edie Tells a Lie) explores the emotional upheaval of welcoming and losing a new sibling. Quinn is 11 years old and happy being an...
The World from Here (Cassy Polimeni, illus Mel Armstrong, CSIRO Publishing)
Tuesday, 9 December 2025
Cassy Polimeni, whose junior fiction novel Ella and the Amazing Frog Orchestra won the Wilderness Society’s Environment Award, brings her gift for accessible science to The World from Here. In...
Saving Shark Pup: The Incredible True Story (Sharon Dalgleish, illus Amandine Thomas, A&U Children’s)
Tuesday, 9 December 2025
Saving Shark Pup: The Incredible True Story is an intriguing and emotive retelling of a great white shark pup’s dramatic rescue from Manly Beach, sure to captivate readers aged 4...
Two Tongues (Maria van Neerven, UQP)
Tuesday, 9 December 2025
Two Tongues is a memoir of language and memory told through poetry. Mununjali woman from the Yugambeh nation Maria van Neerven structures the collection in three chronological parts, tracing her...
A Time of Living Graciously: Reflections on Growing Older (Brigid Lowry, Fremantle)
Tuesday, 9 December 2025
In a culture obsessed with youth and productivity, it’s easy to forget that rest is not laziness, aging is not failure and our worth is not measured by output. Brigid...
Bugger (Michael Mohammed Ahmad, Hachette)
Tuesday, 9 December 2025
Bugger by Michael Mohammed Ahmad (The Lebs, The Tribe) is a heart-wrenching investigation into child sex abuse. Its protagonist, Hamoodi, is an isolated 10-year-old who adores Power Rangers and lives...
The Sisterhood Rules (Kathy Lette, Aria)
Tuesday, 9 December 2025
Bawdy, cheeky and resoundingly “punny”, Kathy Lette’s latest romp, The Sisterhood Rules, is 100% on brand. Twin sisters Isabel and Verity have been estranged for five years, ever since Verity...
SLV responds to reports on staff cuts; PRH bookseller grant recipients; Amplify Bookstore celebrates 5 years
Wednesday, 3 December 2025
Local news In news across Australia this week, the State Library Victoria responded to reports of changes to its services and staffing; Melbourne-based think tank Grattan Institute has announced its...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 3 December 2025
Sales Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold Ukrainian rights The Shortest History of Ancient Rome (Ross King) and The Shortest History of Egypt (Maria Golia) to Atena; Indian subcontinent rights to The...
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Wednesday, 3 December 2025
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How to Make Friends and Go Viral by Accident (YK Willemse, Rhiza Edge)
Tuesday, 2 December 2025
The novella How to Make Friends and Go Viral by Accident by YK Willemse (Jerry’s Window) follows 13-year-old Hayden Connor as he struggles with a speech impediment and the anxiety...
How to Kill a Guy in Ten Dates (Shailee Thompson, Atria Australia)
Tuesday, 2 December 2025
Shailee Thompson’s debut, How to Kill a Guy in Ten Dates, is a genre-blending good time that captures the zeitgeist with its mélange of romantic comedy and horror, movie quotes...
Bush Tukka Guide for Kids (Samantha Martin, HG Explore)
Tuesday, 2 December 2025
Bush Tukka Guide for Kids by Samantha Martin, a descendant of the Jaru people, is an exceptional book about so much more than food. Known as the “Bush Tukka Woman”,...
Muttonfish Magic (Ruth Simms & Lucy Robertson, illus Jasmine Seymour, Magabala)
Tuesday, 2 December 2025
Muttonfish Magic honours the Kameragyl and Bidjigal people, the traditional custodians of the land around Kamay (Botany Bay) and Guriwal (La Perouse). With sensory lyricism, Bidjigal Elder Ruth Simms and...
My Sister, the Todzilla (Jacinta Froud, illus Matt Shanks, Affirm)
Tuesday, 2 December 2025
Many parents and older siblings of toddlers will relate to the premise of Jacinta Froud’s My Sister, the Todzilla – a hilarious and entirely recognisable take on toddler tantrums, presented...
Wurnan: Sharing on Ngarinyin Country (Wilinggin Aboriginal Corporation, Magabala)
Tuesday, 2 December 2025
Wurnan: Sharing on Ngarinyin Country, created by the Wilinggin Aboriginal Corporation, is a powerful cultural record that documents the people, artists, stories, traditions and artefacts of Ngarinyin Country in the...
The Break Up (It’s a Twin Thing! #1) (Kristin Darell, illus A Yi, Penguin)
Tuesday, 2 December 2025
Kristin Darell’s The Break Up, the first in a new series illustrated by A Yi, is a middle-grade novel that explores the complexities of primary school friendships with drama, humour...
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