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Ultimate Australia Travel List

Wednesday, 4 May 2022
Lonely Planet's Ultimate Australia Travel List has been revealed. Win one of 10 copies! For the first time, the team at Lonely Planet and its panel of industry experts have...

The Signal Line

Thursday, 17 March 2022
Brothers Geo and Wes are testing their relationship now that their parents have passed away. Geo and Wes rarely agree on anything, especially not the sale of the Hobart family...

The Bookseller at the End of the World

Wednesday, 2 March 2022
'An extraordinary story… illegal gambling, pirates and numerous personal tragedies, all punctuated by warm stories from her bookshops and an ultimately resolved love story. It makes my life look pretty...

Forty Favours the Brave

Wednesday, 23 February 2022
From the creators of the hit podcast FORTY come musings, advice and real-life stories on the highs, lows and unexpected delight of life in your forties. How can I be...

Nightcrawling

Wednesday, 16 February 2022
Be one of the first to read Nightcrawling, the debut novel by Leila Mottley, which marks the stunning arrival of a voice unlike any we have heard before Kiara and...

The Big Switch

Wednesday, 9 February 2022
In The Big Switch, Saul Griffith shows how Australia can save money and lead the world in fighting climate change: we need to electrify everything. In this short, practical and...

Forging Silver into Stars

Wednesday, 19 January 2022
Discover the world of Brigid Kemmerer’s New York Times bestselling Cursebreaker trilogy through new eyes in this irresistible, standalone companion series. 'A world that you will never want to leave.'...

Orphan Rock

Wednesday, 12 January 2022
Orphan Rock is a complex and richly detailed story of secrets and heartbreak that will take you from the back streets of Sydney’s slums to the wide avenues of the...

The Wardrobe Makeover Challenge

Wednesday, 13 October 2021
‘Light-hearted, fun, most of all practical! This book has changed the way I think about my wardrobe’ —Becky Miles, Bachelorette and Instagram star For those familiar with the niggling feeling...

Danged Black Thing

Wednesday, 29 September 2021
Danged Black Thing is an extraordinary collection of stories about love and migration, gender and class, patriarchy and womanhood, from a remarkable and original voice. Traversing the West and Africa,...

The Stoning

Wednesday, 25 August 2021
The Stoning is an atmospheric page-turner, a brilliant crime novel with superb characters, but also a nuanced and penetrating insight into the heart of a country intent on gambling with its...

Girt Nation

Wednesday, 18 August 2021
The saga of Australia continues with ... GIRT NATION From the bestselling author of Girt and True Girt comes the highly anticipated Girt Nation. Publishing in November, David Hunt will trample...

Prisoner

Wednesday, 4 August 2021
24 HOURS AFTER LEAVING HIS CELL HE WAS DEAD. CAN SHE FIND OUT WHY? 'S R White is the real deal.' —Chris Hammer, author of Scrublands. When a man is...

The Last Checkmate

Wednesday, 21 July 2021
Readers of Heather Morris’s The Tattooist of Auschwitz and watchers of The Queen’s Gambit won’t want to miss this amazing debut set during World War II. A young Polish resistance worker, imprisoned in Auschwitz as...

Over My Dead Body

Wednesday, 7 July 2021
FOUR CASES FOUR KILLERS ONLY ONE MAN CAN STOP THEM An unputdownable story of murder, revenge and betrayal from international number one bestseller Jeffrey Archer. THE CLOCK IS TICKING IN...

Blessed

Wednesday, 23 June 2021
Who is Rampaging Roy Slaven? An Australian icon, a raconteur, an athlete of unsurpassable—and some may say improbable—sporting feats. Whether it was riding Rooting King to another Melbourne Cup victory,...

Rabbit Hole

Wednesday, 9 June 2021
My name is Alice. I'm a police officer. I'm trying to solve a murder on a psychiatric ward. But I'm also a patient... They were meant to be safe on...

The House of Shudders

Wednesday, 2 June 2021
‘A powerful read ... I was gripped until the very end.’ —Romi Sharp, Books on Tour A bastard, a shame, a national disgrace. A child thrust into a world of...

The Overthinkers

Wednesday, 14 April 2021
‘I laughed. I cried. Sometimes at the same time!’ —Tim Ferguson ‘Portolan and Cheong’s voices stitch seamlessly together to lay out a funny, honest and extremely relatable story, so clearly...

Pete Cromer: Wildlife

Thursday, 8 April 2021
Discover some of the world's most wonderful animals through Pete Cromer's bold and beautiful animal portraits. This gallery in a book features 18 of his best loved wildlife collages. For...

Chasing the McCubbin

Wednesday, 10 February 2021
The Pines, an outer Melbourne suburb down on its luck. A country in the grip of recession. Experienced collector Ron senses new possibilities: swift evictions provide hard-rubbish to scour and...

Pete Cromer: Australia

Wednesday, 25 November 2020
Discover Australia’s unique animals through Pete Cromer’s jaw-droppingly bold and beautiful animal portraits. This gallery-in-a-book features 18 of his best-loved Australian bird and mammal collages. For the first time ever,...

Everything in its Right Place

Wednesday, 2 September 2020
‘Powerful and urgent. Crackling with energy and wit, a dark joyride of a read, its danger and beauty announcing a roaring new talent.’—Roger Averill ‘Equal parts harrowing coming-of-age story and...

Revenge: Murder in Three Parts

Wednesday, 29 July 2020
‘A coiled spring of a novel, Revenge hits you right between the eyes.’—Malcolm Harris A family favour their son over their daughter. Shan attends university before making his fortune in...

The Fogging

Wednesday, 3 June 2020
‘A skilfully drawn portrait of a decaying relationship … Like a brewing storm on an oppressive day, it builds towards the thunderclap of its final pages.’—Jennifer Down ‘Luke Horton’s writing...

Hidden Scorpion

Wednesday, 20 May 2020
Hidden Scorpion 2nd edition is by Warren Reed, author of the intriguing real-world spy story An Elephant on Your Nose. 'A finely crafted thriller by a former Australian spy, Hidden...

My Dark Vanessa

Wednesday, 18 September 2019
‘A package of dynamite’—Stephen King ‘The book everyone will be talking about in 2020’—Louise O’Neill ‘Riveting, compulsive, urgent’—Elizabeth Day An era-defining novel about the relationship between a 15-year-old girl and...

Hero

Wednesday, 11 September 2019
Four years after the Perdido Beach dome went down, the alien virus that made it is still wreaking havoc, and virus-infested rock has created a new set of humans with...

Guest House for Young Widows: Among the women of ISIS

Wednesday, 4 September 2019
An intimate, deeply reported account of a number of unforgettable young women who made a shocking decision: to leave their comfortable lives behind and join the Islamic State. All from...