The Interpreter (Brooke Robinson, Harvill Secker)
Tuesday, 18 April 2023
Revelle Lee is a court interpreter in London. She spends her days translating the words of victims, criminals and witnesses. It’s her job to inhabit them, wear their skin and...
Sunshine on Vinegar Street (Karen Comer, A&U Children’s)
Tuesday, 18 April 2023
Everything in Freya’s world has changed. Her dad has taken a job in Broome for the next 18 months and her mum has a new job in the inner-city Melbourne...
The Archipelago of Us (Reneé Pettitt-Schipp, Fremantle Press)
Tuesday, 18 April 2023
Originally written as part of Reneé Pettitt-Schipp’s PhD thesis, The Archipelago of Us is a moving travel memoir mixed with a reflective story of trauma and healing. Pettitt-Schipp decided to...
Sad Girl Novel (Pip Finkemeyer, Ultimo)
Tuesday, 11 April 2023
When we first meet aspiring writer Kim Mueller, she’s taking a train through Berlin, on her way to see her therapist. She’s wondering if she’s ‘talented or deluded’. She has...
Backyard Footy (Carl Merrison, illus by Samantha Campbell, Lothian)
Tuesday, 11 April 2023
Kicking the footy around in your backyard is fun, but playing with mates is even better! Jaru/Kija author Carl Merrison and illustrator Samantha Campbell score big with their lively, cumulative...
Minds of Sand and Light (Kylie Chan, Voyager AU)
Tuesday, 11 April 2023
Two rebel journalists get caught up in a conflict between secretive AIs in this new cyberpunk thriller. Minds of Sand and Light is set some 50 years in the future:...
Search History (Amy Taylor, A&U)
Tuesday, 4 April 2023
Most of us have left some kind of regrettable imprint on the internet. It’s with this discarded online ephemera that anxiety swells about what people may make of it all—including...
Where I Slept (Libby Angel, Text)
Tuesday, 4 April 2023
Where I Slept, by award-winning poet and author Libby Angel, is a sharp and sobering piece of autofiction that follows a struggling, unnamed poet/artist living on the margins in 1990s...
Media Monsters (Sally Young, NewSouth)
Tuesday, 4 April 2023
After breaking through to the mainstream with her 2019 Stella Prize-longlisted book Paper Emperors, academic Sally Young continues to expose the dark interplay between Australian media and politics with Media...
Anam (André Dao, Hamish Hamilton)
Tuesday, 4 April 2023
Winner of the 2021 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript, Anam is a remarkable debut novel exploring memory, family, colonialism and displacement. The narrator, a young Vietnamese-Australian man...
Desert Jungle (Jeannie Baker, Walker)
Tuesday, 28 March 2023
Nearly seven years since her last picture storybook, Jeannie Baker returns in top form with Desert Jungle, a breath of fresh air in children’s books, offering a humble and vital...
Orphia and Eurydicius (Elyse John, HarperCollins)
Tuesday, 28 March 2023
Set against the backdrop of ancient Greece in a time of myth and heroism, Orphia and Eurydicius is a tale of love, courage, feminine power and the strength of stories...
The Albatross (Nina Wan, Macmillan)
Tuesday, 21 March 2023
It’s widely known that an albatross is a very rare bird. In golf, it’s a move that’s even rarer—one that’s considered lucky, executed with the utmost finesse. And golf is...
We Could Be Something (Will Kostakis, A&U Children’s)
Tuesday, 21 March 2023
Will Kostakis’s first novel Loathing Lola was published when he was 19 years old. This uncommon experience inspires his latest book, a semi-autobiographical YA novel for readers aged 14–17. We...
Who’s Afraid of the Light? (Anna McGregor, Scribble)
Tuesday, 21 March 2023
Two seagulls bob on top of a flat ocean on a sunny day. ‘Oh, hi!’ says one. ‘The story starts down there,’ says the other, dipping its head beneath the...
Eta Draconis (Brendan Ritchie, UWAP)
Tuesday, 21 March 2023
Eta Draconis is Brendan Ritchie’s impressive third novel and the winner of the 2022 Dorothy Hewett Award. This road trip story centres around two sisters, Elora and Vivienne, who are...
Books in the media this weekend 18–19 March
Friday, 17 March 2023
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Old Babes in the Wood (Margaret Atwood, C&W) Tanya Plibersek: On...
The Heart is a Star (Megan Rogers, HarperCollins)
Wednesday, 15 March 2023
The Heart is a Star is the captivating debut novel by talented writer Megan Rogers. We are introduced to anaesthetist Layla Byrnes, a middle-aged woman struggling to reconcile her career,...
Glimpse (Jane Higgins, Text)
Tuesday, 14 March 2023
Jane Higgins’s dystopian YA debut The Bridge was the winner of the 2010 Text Prize, and her latest, Glimpse, has the same qualities that won Higgins the prize. Inspired by...
All About the Heart (Remi Kowalski, illus by Tonia Composto, Berbay)
Tuesday, 14 March 2023
All About the Heart by paediatric cardiologist Remi Kowalski and graphic designer Tonia Composto is the first in Berbay’s new nonfiction picture book series for four- to eight-year-olds. Kowalski and...
She and Her Pretty Friend (Danielle Scrimshaw, Ultimo)
Tuesday, 14 March 2023
Danielle Scrimshaw’s debut, She and Her Pretty Friend, is a history of queer Australian women. In a light and intriguing tone, Scrimshaw pieces together what little evidence there is—letters, diary entries,...
The Sideways Orbit of Evie Hart (Samera Kamaleddine, HarperCollins)
Tuesday, 14 March 2023
When 12-year-old Evie’s mum and stepdad Lee announce their separation, it feels like her whole world has been turned upside down. What’s more, Lee—the only father Evie has ever known—is...
The Fall Between (Darcy Tindale, Bantam)
Tuesday, 14 March 2023
The first body is waiting for Detective Rebecca Giles on a property in Muswellbrook, floating in a water trough. Giles is fresh out of a missing-persons case wrapped up in...
Books in the media this weekend 11–12 March
Friday, 10 March 2023
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Barron Field in New South Wales: The poetics of terra nullius...
After the Rain (Aisling Smith, Hachette)
Tuesday, 7 March 2023
Aisling Smith’s debut novel, After the Rain, is the melancholic and moving winner of the 2020 Richell Prize. The story begins with Malti, a woman who moved from Fiji to...
Obsession (Nicole Madigan, Pantera)
Tuesday, 7 March 2023
When journalist Nicole Madigan starts dating single dad Adam, it seems like the beginning of an exciting new chapter for her and her children. But as the relationship progresses, something...
Books in the media this weekend 4–5 March
Friday, 3 March 2023
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Political Lives: Australian prime ministers and their biographers (Chris Wallace, NewSouth)...
The Collected Regrets of Clover (Mikki Brammer, Viking)
Tuesday, 28 February 2023
The Collected Regrets of Clover is the heartwarming debut novel by Australian author and journalist Mikki Brammer. Set in New York, the book centres on Clover Brooks, a socially isolated...
Naked Ambition (Robert Gott, Scribe)
Tuesday, 28 February 2023
Gregory Buchanan is an up-and-coming state politician with a healthy dose of self-regard. A blithe spirit, he commissions career artist Sophie White to capture his portrait. The sitting takes an unusual...
Books in the media this weekend: 25–26 February
Friday, 24 February 2023
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper The Book of Falling (David McCooey, Black Inc.) Fog (Tom Petsinis,...
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