The Observologist (Giselle Clarkson, Gecko)
Tuesday, 22 August 2023
An observologist is someone who makes scientific expeditions every day and notices interesting details in the world around them. This is the first thing we learn in The Observologist by Giselle Clarkson,...
Unholy Terrors (Lyndall Clipstone, Penguin)
Tuesday, 15 August 2023
Unholy Terrors is an alluring, gothic tale of forbidden love and shifting allegiances in a land of magic and monsters. Everline Blackthorn is not like the other wardens who guard...
Zero Risk: Keeping others safe in a dangerous world (Tony Loughran, Echo)
Tuesday, 15 August 2023
Tony Loughran’s memoir, Zero Risk, certainly lives up to his motto—‘I’d rather spend one year as a tiger than a hundred years as a sheep’. From his rough-and-tumble—and then outright...
Kinky History (Esmé Louise James, Pantera)
Tuesday, 15 August 2023
Kinky History is based on the wildly popular TikTok account we all needed. Author Esmé Louise James (@esme.louisee) is a TikTok phenomenon with over 2.3 million followers, and it’s pretty...
Nikki Hind: Dressed for success (John Dickson, illus Chantel de Sousa, Berbay)
Tuesday, 15 August 2023
Nikki Hind: Dressed for Success is part of Vision Australia’s Big Vision series that profiles Australian people living with blindness or low vision. It’s a short biography of Nikki Hind,...
A–Z of Who I Could Be (Chloe Dalton, illus Kim Siew, A&U)
Tuesday, 15 August 2023
A–Z of Who I Could Be showcases 26 Australian top-performing female and non-binary athletes across 26 different sports. Chloe Dalton presents us with the likes of Ash Barty, Nova Peris,...
Prima Facie (Suzie Miller, Picador)
Tuesday, 8 August 2023
Prima Facie, Suzie Miller’s debut novel (adapted from her internationally award-winning 2019 play of the same name), is a relentless, arresting story of a criminal defence barrister whose passionate faith...
If You Tell Anyone, You’re Next (Jack Heath, Scholastic)
Tuesday, 8 August 2023
Bestselling author Jack Heath has written 40 books for children, teenagers and adults. He returns with a pulse-racing psychological thriller set in a suburban high school. Zoe’s best friend Jayden...
Salt River Road (Molly Schmidt, Fremantle)
Tuesday, 8 August 2023
Radio producer, journalist and now award-winning writer Molly Schmidt has poured her heart into her first book Salt River Road. ‘Write what you know’, they say, and having lost her...
Back to the Storks (Cressida Gaukroger, illus Andrew Joyner, Little Hare)
Tuesday, 8 August 2023
Back to the Storks plays on the old wives’ tale that babies are delivered to homes by storks. Otis is such a loud baby that when his parents are at...
Pantera acquires Price debut
Tuesday, 8 August 2023
Pantera Press has acquired world rights to Perfect Candidate, a debut work of nonfiction from Lucinda Price (also known as Froomes), via Claire Harrison at Creative Representation. Pantera Press described...
Faking It: Artificial intelligence in a human world (Toby Walsh, La Trobe University Press)
Tuesday, 1 August 2023
In his opening chapter, Toby Walsh says Faking It is about ‘the artificiality of artificial intelligence’. At a time when venture capitalist-backed hustlers dominate the field and try to make...
The Sugar Palace (Fiona McIntosh, Michael Joseph)
Tuesday, 1 August 2023
Set in 1920s Sydney, The Sugar Palace is a pacy historical adventure with the perfect dose of romance, and shifts between the shadows of Sydney’s criminal underbelly and The Rocks....
This Book is a Time Machine (Tracey Dembo, illus Lucinda Gifford, Affirm)
Tuesday, 1 August 2023
Children, and readers of all ages, delight in books where all is not as it seems: conventions of time and space may be disrupted; the narrator speaks to the reader...
Kip of the Mountain (Emma Gourlay, HarperCollins)
Tuesday, 1 August 2023
Emma Gourlay’s debut novel for readers aged 8–12 is the madcap adventure of Kip Boowitt, who lives on South Africa’s Table Mountain. Beleaguered by a distant dad and cruel schoolmates,...
Giovanni (Crystal Corocher, illus Margeaux Davis, Wombat Books)
Tuesday, 1 August 2023
Giovanni is the true story of a young Italian boy who migrates to Australia with his family in 1881 as one of the first Italian migrants. Promised paradise by a...
Transgender Australia: A history since 1910 (Noah Riseman, MUP)
Tuesday, 25 July 2023
Noah Riseman’s Transgender Australia: A History since 1910 is the first book that tracks Australian trans history and explores the lives and impacts of gender-diverse people. It’s important for LGBTQ+...
Body Friend (Katherine Brabon, Ultimo)
Tuesday, 25 July 2023
Katherine Brabon distinguished herself with her first novels, The Memory Artist and The Shut Ins, but she has surpassed these and reached an early career pinnacle with her enigmatically titled novel, Body Friend. If a...
Borderland (Graham Akhurst, UWA Publishing)
Tuesday, 25 July 2023
Jono is a young Indigenous man who has little connection to Country and community. While his best friend, Jenny, seems to know exactly who she is, Jono struggles with his...
Tiwi Story: Turning history downside up (Mavis Kerinaiua & Laura Rademaker, UNSW)
Tuesday, 18 July 2023
In Tiwi Story: Turning history downside up, Mavis Kerinaiua and Laura Rademaker undertake the phenomenal work of penning Tiwi peoples’ past and present. Tiwi Story is the latest preservation of...
Sunbirds (Mirandi Riwoe, UQP)
Tuesday, 18 July 2023
In West Java, towards the end of 1941, war is looming. Whispers of a Japanese invasion weigh heavily on the minds of the van Hoorn family, who are throwing their...
Every Night at Midnight (Peter Cheong, Affirm)
Tuesday, 18 July 2023
Up-and-coming author-illustrator Peter Cheong casts a magnificent glow with Every Night at Midnight, his heart-warming picture book about finding friendship in unexpected places. With the repetitive refrain, ‘Every night at...
The Disorganisation of Celia Stone (Emma Young, Fremantle)
Tuesday, 18 July 2023
Emma Young’s second novel, The Disorganisation of Celia Stone, explores the demands of modern life and how they affect women living in a world with unrealistic expectations. Celia Stone has it...
The Visitors (Jane Harrison, HarperCollins)
Tuesday, 11 July 2023
It’s 1788 in Gadigal country. Seven Aboriginal Elders gather from different clans to discuss the large ships in the harbour. Who are these visitors? Why are they here? How did...
Aggie Flea is Not a Liar! (Tania Ingram, illus A Yi, Scholastic)
Tuesday, 11 July 2023
Aggie Flea is greatly misunderstood. Her teacher, Mrs Fossy, definitely doesn’t like her and regularly sends her to the principal’s office. Aggie loves the fictitious Princess Zombie books about a...
Something Bad is Going to Happen (Jessie Stephens, Macmillan)
Tuesday, 11 July 2023
When Jessie Stephens’s debut novel opens, protagonist Adella is almost 30 and spending New Year’s Eve in a psychiatric hospital. Something bad, it seems, has happened. The novel rewinds to...
Good Morning, My Deer! (Mel Amon, illus Sophie Beer, Scribble)
Tuesday, 11 July 2023
Hare or hair, pear or pair, son or sun—abounds in a glorious new picture book from author Mel Amon, illustrated by national treasure Sophie Beer. Good Morning, My Deer! is...
Hoodie Economics (Jack Manning Bancroft, Hardie Grant)
Tuesday, 11 July 2023
Hoodie Economics is not your regular economics book. In his book, Jack Manning Bancroft, founder and CEO of the mentoring program AIME, pulls apart what ‘people in suits’ might think...
Nedingar: Ancestors (Isobel Bevis, illus Leanne Zilm, Fremantle)
Tuesday, 4 July 2023
Nedingar: Ancestors is the first picture book from First Nations creators Isobel Bevis and Leanne Zilm. It is a simple story, told in Noongar and English, of a child in search...
Mighty Blossom (Nicki Greenberg, Affirm)
Tuesday, 4 July 2023
Nicki Greenberg is one of Australia’s most versatile authors, whose work for young readers encompasses fiction, picture books, nonfiction, and critically acclaimed graphic novels. Mighty Blossom is her latest offering...
