Once a Stranger (Zoya Patel, Hachette)
Tuesday, 10 January 2023
Following on from her debut memoir No Country Woman, Zoya Patel’s novel Once a Stranger tackles the same themes of cultural bereavement, being caught between two different worlds and the...
Matt Formston: Surfing in the Dark (John Dickson, illus by Philip Bunting, Berbay)
Tuesday, 10 January 2023
People who are blind, who achieve incredible feats, are the linchpin of ‘Big Visions’, an exciting new nonfiction picture book series from Berbay Books and Vision Australia, aimed at 7–12-year-olds...
Sea Glass (Rebecca Fraser, Wombat Books) Archive
Tuesday, 6 December 2022
Rebecca Fraser is a vibrant voice in Australian junior fiction. Her novel Sea Glass is the beautifully executed story of 11-year-old Cailin, a pre-teen who is stuck with her mother...
The Hotel Witch (Jessica Miller, Text) Archive
Tuesday, 6 December 2022
With a cast of larger-than-life characters that almost pop off the page, The Hotel Witch is the wonderfully imaginative new adventure from Jessica Miller, who previously brought us The Republic...
Tanya Plibersek: On her own terms (Margaret Simons, Black Inc.) Archive
Tuesday, 6 December 2022
Swept unexpectedly at only 28 into the safe seat of Sydney, Tanya Plibersek was the golden girl at the heart of Labor politics when the party was looking to increase...
Viking Women (Lisa Hannett, Thames & Hudson) Archive
Tuesday, 6 December 2022
Literature academic and speculative fiction author Lisa Hannett has written an evocative account of the varied lives of women during the Viking era. Hannett uses her vast knowledge of Vikings...
Books in the media this weekend,10–11 December Archive
Tuesday, 6 December 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. Books of the year 2022 ArtsHub 10 Underrated Books in 2022 Australian Book Review Books...
Books in the media this weekend, 3–4 December Archive
Friday, 2 December 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Admissions: Voices within mental health (ed by David Stavanger, Radhiah Chowdhury...
You Made Me This Way (Shannon Molloy, Fourth Estate) Archive
Tuesday, 29 November 2022
Known for his feature journalism as well as his acclaimed memoir of teenage struggle, Fourteen, Shannon Molloy has turned his keen eye to a more expansive project in You Made...
The One Thing We’ve Never Spoken About (Elfy Scott, Pantera) Archive
Tuesday, 29 November 2022
In The One Thing We’ve Never Spoken About, Sydney-based journalist and podcast presenter Elfy Scott uses her talent for explaining complicated issues in accessible ways to examine the myths and...
Books in the media this weekend, 26–27 November Archive
Friday, 25 November 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Chokepoint Capitalism (Rebecca Giblin & Cory Doctorow, Scribe) The God of No...
Two Can Play That Game (Leanne Yong, A&U Children’s) Archive
Tuesday, 22 November 2022
Leanne Yong’s debut Two Can Play That Game is a joyful and fun addition to the growing Asian-Australian Own Voices YA movement, joining the likes of Tiger Daughter and The...
A Man of Honour (Simon Smith, Echo) Archive
Tuesday, 22 November 2022
When debut novelist Simon Smith was a child he was told, ‘Someone in our family shot a prince.’ That man was Henry James O’Farrell, whose failed attempt in 1868 to...
Books in the media this weekend, 19–20 November Archive
Friday, 18 November 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Liberation Day (George Saunders, Bloomsbury) Salonika Burning (Gail Jones, Text) The...
Smashing Serendipity (Louise K Hansen, Fremantle Press) Archive
Tuesday, 15 November 2022
Proud Binjareb Nyoongar woman Louise K Hansen unfortunately passed away before her profound memoir, Smashing Serendipity: The story of one Moordtj Yorga, was published. But the strong stories from her...
The Death of John Lacey (Ben Hobson, A&U) Archive
Tuesday, 15 November 2022
Ben Hobson’s third novel tells the fragmented story of the life and demise of John Lacey, a ruthless, violent settler of a Victorian gold rush town. John and his brother...
Maggie (Catherine Johns, Hachette) Archive
Tuesday, 15 November 2022
In Catherine Johns’s debut novel, a 17-year-old Catholic school girl’s life is derailed when she becomes enamoured of her priest. It’s 1967 and Maggie is a straight-A student whose education...
Tumbleglass (Kate Constable, A&U Children’s) Archive
Tuesday, 15 November 2022
Rowan is helping her big sister Ash with painting her room when suddenly they find themselves in 1999, at a party in the very same house. While Ash wants to...
This Time it’s Real (Ann Liang, Penguin) Archive
Tuesday, 15 November 2022
Ann Liang’s This Time it’s Real is a vibrant young adult romantic comedy with its heart in the right place. When 17-year-old Eliza Lin’s school essay about her fabricated love...
Taking to the Field (Jane Carey, Monash University Publishing) Archive
Tuesday, 15 November 2022
The most surprising thing to be found in a book about the history of women in science—for the author, as well as the reader—is the fact that the field has...
Books in the media this weekend, 12–13 November Archive
Friday, 11 November 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Dandelions (Thea Lenarduzzi, Fitzcarraldo) The Successor: The high stakes life of...
Little Plum (Laura McPhee-Browne, Text) Archive
Tuesday, 8 November 2022
Little Plum is the second novel by the award-winning author of Cherry Beach, Laura McPhee-Browne. The story unfolds around 29-year-old Coral, who decides to follow through with a pregnancy from...
You Talk, We Die (Judy Ryan, Scribe) Archive
Tuesday, 8 November 2022
Safe injecting rooms have been a polarising issue in Victoria for decades. Years of debate, government inquiries, coroner’s reports, media conjecture and scare campaigns have plagued any productive conversation. But...
Brain is (Not) Always Right (Scott Stuart, Scholastic) Archive
Tuesday, 8 November 2022
Scott Stuart may have come to creating books for children in an unconventional way, but the social media storm surrounding his support for his child to be everything they could...
Cloud Land (Penny van Oosterzee, A&U) Archive
Tuesday, 8 November 2022
In the gripping and extensively researched Cloud Land, Penny van Oosterzee imagines what a small region of Queensland’s Atherton Tablelands has witnessed over both geological time and since white settlement....
Books in the media this weekend, 5–6 November Archive
Friday, 4 November 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper A Guest at the Feast (Colm Tóibín, Picador) Men I Trust...
The Exclusion Zone (Shastra Deo, UQP) Archive
Wednesday, 2 November 2022
‘You are searching for something,’ begins The Exclusion Zone. It's a provocation that forms the manifesto for the enthralling and ingenious second poetry collection from Shastra Deo following her ALS...
How to Kill a Client (Joanna Jenkins, A&U) Archive
Tuesday, 1 November 2022
Gavin Jones is the slimiest, most unpleasant client at big law firm Howard Greene—and that’s with some stiff competition. When this misogynistic, manipulative man dies suddenly it’s not so much...
The Cockatoo Wars (Helen Milroy, Magabala) Archive
Tuesday, 1 November 2022
The Cockatoo Wars is the latest picture book in Helen Milroy’s vibrant Tales from the Bush Mob series. Featuring a cast of Australian animals including Dingo, Willy Wagtail, Platypus and Wombat, and drawing...
Timeless (Kelly Canby, Fremantle Press) Archive
Tuesday, 1 November 2022
A topical theme in these social media-obsessed days, Timeless tells the tale of Emit, a young boy whose parents are always too preoccupied to pay attention to him. Tired of...
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