Tuesday, 22 October 2024
Armed with a mandate to celebrate hope, courage and resilience, the 20 stories in the anthology Tomorrow There Will Be Sun venture near and far, from the sheep-herding plains of...

Tuesday, 15 October 2024
Jackie French once again showcases her meticulous research in an engaging historical fiction novel that will captivate upper middle-grade readers. In 1859, near the Ballarat goldfields, we meet Tigg, a...

Tuesday, 15 October 2024
In May 2023, journalist Stan Grant (Talking to My Country) stepped away from his role as host of ABC’s Q+A. His latest book, Murriyang: Song of Time, is a heartfelt...

Tuesday, 15 October 2024
Iain Ryan plunges the reader into a seedy underworld of police corruption and political scheming in his latest novel, The Dream. Set during a spiralling recession and the 1982 Brisbane...

Tuesday, 8 October 2024
Leesa Ronald’s debut novel, Special Delivery, is an enemies-to-lovers rom-com with some hilarious side characters, steamy love scenes and a snarky, highly relatable protagonist. Poppy McKellar is unexpectedly pregnant, and...

Tuesday, 8 October 2024
Now a forgotten species, the wild reciter was once an entertainer who frequented small local parlours and music halls, reciting poetry to the public. Around a century ago, at a...

Tuesday, 8 October 2024
The Five Rules of Friendship by Jess Sanders (Life Lessons for Little Ones: You Are Enough) is a thoughtful and engaging picture book exploring friendship, for readers aged 5+. Sanders...

Tuesday, 8 October 2024
In today’s world, where information is instantly available, travel guides may seem less appealing. However, there are times when expert advice compiled in a beautifully designed guide is invaluable—such as...

Tuesday, 1 October 2024
In recent years, historians have increasingly shown that the past, especially in the West, was more multicultural than the monoculture so often portrayed. In Australia, where colonial history has consistently...

Tuesday, 1 October 2024
Tilly in a Tangle, written by Margrete Lamond (The Sorry Tale of Fox and Bear) and illustrated by Monty Lee (Grumpy Bear, Grouchy Bear), is a new picture book about...

Tuesday, 24 September 2024
The 113th Assistant Librarian is a fantastical story that opens with Oliver Wormwood sneaking out of his house to try to find the trade that is his Calling—his path in...

Tuesday, 24 September 2024
In Inga Simpson’s The Thinning, Fin has grown up in a world long past its tipping point. Daughter to an astronomer father and an astrophotographer mother, Fin knows everything about...

Tuesday, 24 September 2024
Following the success of Car Crash: A Memoir, Lech Blaine’s second book tells the true story of his unique family, who faced serious challenges inflicted by Michael and Mary Shelley,...

Tuesday, 17 September 2024
Molly is a riveting prequel to The Dressmaker from much-loved Australian author Rosalie Ham, and can be enjoyed as a standalone novel. Set in the inner-city suburbs of Melbourne in...

Tuesday, 17 September 2024
According to his grandson, Gramps has had ‘what they call a Chequered Career’. It has taken him on all sorts of adventures, though by far the most exciting was his...

Tuesday, 10 September 2024
Theory & Practice is a quietly experimental new novel from two-time Miles Franklin winner Michelle de Kretser (Scary Monsters). Set mainly in St Kilda in 1986, it captures a snapshot...

Tuesday, 10 September 2024
Inyeon is a Korean word and Buddhist term meaning ‘destiny’ or ‘karmic relation’, representing the concept that two beings are bound to interact with each other in one way or...

Tuesday, 10 September 2024
Zanni Louise (Cora Seen and Heard) has written over 40 books for children, two of which have received CBCA commendations. Louise has teamed up with equally lauded illustrator Judy Watson...

Tuesday, 3 September 2024
Emma Grey’s second adult romance, Pictures of You, follows her successful debut, The Last Love Note, and shares similar themes of love, grief and hope, while weaving in mystery and...

Tuesday, 3 September 2024
Words to Sing the World Alive, edited by Torres Strait Islander and African American author/editor Jasmin McGaughey and organisation The Poet’s Voice, collects stories from 40 First Nations contributors as they...

Tuesday, 3 September 2024
Approaching her fourth World War II novel, All the Beautiful Things, I feared Katrina Nannestad may have run out of stories to tell, but this book was as compelling and...

Tuesday, 27 August 2024
In his sophomore novel, David Dyer skilfully blurs history and fiction to pose the question: What if the Apollo mission had failed to return from the Moon? This Kingdom of...

Tuesday, 27 August 2024
A triumph of restrained and tender storytelling, Melanie Cheng’s The Burrow follows a Melbourne family living on autopilot five years after a senseless tragedy. Amy, Jin and Lucie have since...

Tuesday, 27 August 2024
Tardigrades: Nature’s toughest survivors is the latest nonfiction picture book from Anne Morgan, author of the CBCA Notable Book The Way of the Weedy Seadragon. Morgan showcases the remarkable microorganisms...

Tuesday, 20 August 2024
Written with the same lyrical prowess and evocative tone as her award-winning debut, Song of the Crocodile, Yuwaalaraay storyteller Nardi Simpson’s second novel, The Belburd, is a powerful ode to...

Tuesday, 20 August 2024
Alan Carter’s latest crime novel, Prize Catch, is a page-turning thrill ride set on Australia’s Emerald Isle. With the action taking place in Hobart and its surrounds, and brimming with...

Tuesday, 13 August 2024
For years, Jessica Friedmann (Things That Helped) circled the tarot, feeling a combination of mild embarrassment, curiosity and intellectual bewilderment when a pack was inevitably drawn at the end of...