The Great Housing Hijack (Cameron K Murray, A&U)
Tuesday, 16 January 2024
Instead of your typical dense economics book, The Great Housing Hijack: The hoaxes and myths keeping prices high for renters and buyers in Australia uses a compelling narrative with analogies,...
Outlaw Girls (Emily Gale & Nova Weetman, Text)
Tuesday, 16 January 2024
Emily Gale and Nova Weetman deliver again with Outlaw Girls, the Kelly country time-slip follow-up to their CBCA Notable Elsewhere Girls. In 1878, Kate Kelly secretly slips supplies to her...
A Room for Ryel (Emma Cameron, Wombat)
Tuesday, 16 January 2024
Within modern shifting family dynamics, Emma Cameron’s A Room for Ryel emerges as a heartwarming tale that adeptly explores the intricacies and joys of blending families. The book seamlessly transcends...
One Another (Gail Jones, Text)
Tuesday, 9 January 2024
Expect no less from Gail Jones’s tenth novel, One Another, than carefully crafted prose that will delight and assure you of an expert at work. With a languid sense of...
I Hope This Doesn’t Find You (Ann Liang, Penguin)
Tuesday, 9 January 2024
Ann Liang’s third young adult novel, I Hope This Doesn’t Find You, is a feel-good rom-com that uses all the well-worn tropes of the enemies-to-lovers subgenre. When people-pleaser school captain...
The Girl from Moscow (Julia Levitina, Pantera)
Tuesday, 9 January 2024
In Julia Levitina’s debut novel, The Girl from Moscow, Ella Ashkenazi, an aspiring actor on the verge of a breakthrough role, discovers she is pregnant. It’s a low-key beginning to...
Like Fire-Hearted Suns (Melanie Joosten, Ultimo)
Tuesday, 9 January 2024
‘Deeds not words’ was the valiant cry of the suffragettes, but does the average reader know what those deeds entailed? This average reader did not. While a work of fiction,...
Some People Want to Shoot Me (Wayne Bergmann & Madelaine Dickie, Fremantle)
Tuesday, 9 January 2024
Some People Want to Shoot Me is the straight-talking biography of Wayne Bergmann, an Indigenous land rights advocate and native title lawyer who famously took on a multinational company and...
What They Told Me (Hayley Lawrence, Scholastic)
Tuesday, 12 December 2023
Fifteen-year-old Elliott Gillespie has always believed she and her family are the lucky ones. Their home by Crooked River has been in the Gillespie family for generations. Her best friend,...
Sloths Love Parties (Rory H Mather, illus Binny Talib, Affirm)
Tuesday, 12 December 2023
Have you ever wondered why sloths are so slow and sleepy? In Rory H Mather’s Sloths Love Parties, it’s not because of their low-energy diet but due to their high-energy...
The Concierge (Abby Corson, Ultimo)
Tuesday, 12 December 2023
Abby Corson’s debut crime thriller, The Concierge, offers readers a locked-room murder mystery in a lavish English country hotel, where the guests are pointing fingers, and the person who knows...
Beyond Booze (Sarah Rusbatch, Murdoch)
Tuesday, 12 December 2023
The term ‘sober curiosity’ has been around for a few years now, but Beyond Booze: How to create a life you love, alcohol-free offers something a bit more. Author Sarah...
Greater City Shadows (Laurie Steed, UWAP)
Tuesday, 12 December 2023
Laurie Steed’s third book and debut short story collection, Greater City Shadows, collates tales of grief, loss, loneliness, unrequited love, fractured relationships and—ultimately—hope. Suburban Perth is the setting for many an...
The Daredevil Princess and the Golden Unicorn (Belinda Murrell, illus Rebecca Crane, Puffin)
Tuesday, 12 December 2023
The Daredevil Princess and the Golden Unicorn is the first in kid-lit superstar Belinda Murrell’s latest series, with a second book (The Daredevil Princess and the Goblin King) to be...
Go Lightly (Brydie Lee-Kennedy, Bloomsbury)
Tuesday, 12 December 2023
Brydie Lee-Kennedy’s debut, Go Lightly, is an honest, hilarious and often painful exploration of taking risks in life and love. Full of wry humour, it dives into the complexities of...
Little Horses (Deborah Kelly, illus Jenni Goodman, Wombat Books)
Tuesday, 12 December 2023
Deborah Kelly’s Little Horses opens with a beautiful, graceful scene of seahorses living in harmony with other marine life in their ocean habitat. The jewel-coloured seahorses live a peaceful life...
My Brilliant Sister (Amy Brown, Scribner)
Tuesday, 5 December 2023
My Brilliant Sister is a layered and involving story about womanhood, motherhood and art. It follows three very different women who all want to create art and are at a...
The Beacon (P A Thomas, Echo)
Tuesday, 5 December 2023
Living in the Byron region, doctor-turned-author P A Thomas is well placed to helm this debut crime novel featuring colourful characters and rollicking action set in this lively location. Jack...
The Intuition Toolkit (Joel Pearson, S&S)
Tuesday, 5 December 2023
Forget the idea of intuition as a sixth sense or any of the other mysterious connotations that many gurus and self-help books have been portraying for decades. Instead, in The...
Countdown to Yesterday (Shirley Marr, Puffin)
Tuesday, 5 December 2023
Shirley Marr’s latest novel, Countdown to Yesterday, takes young readers on a heartwarming journey through time, memories, and the complexities of family and friendship. This enchanting tale is a delightful...
How to Avoid Being Eaten By Sharks… and other advice (John Larkin, illus Chrissie Krebs, Walker)
Tuesday, 5 December 2023
How do you avoid being eaten by sharks? Is the Earth flat or round? How do you translate parent-speak, pass a creative writing test, and elude alien abduction? Tongue-in-cheek, chapter-length...
Ho Jiak: A Taste of Malaysia (Junda Khoo, Hardie Grant)
Tuesday, 5 December 2023
Ho Jiak: A taste of Malaysia by chef Junda Khoo with Nick Jordan is an exciting culinary exploration of Malaysian cuisine. The title, meaning ‘delicious’ in Hokkien—also the name of...
Smoke & Mirrors (Barry Jonsberg, A&U Children’s)
Tuesday, 5 December 2023
High-school student Grace is a whiz at magic—or she tries to be. Since learning an array of magic tricks and pranks from her no-good Uncle Mike as a little girl,...
Everything Is Perfect (Maxine Fawcett, Michael Joseph)
Tuesday, 5 December 2023
The protagonists of what was once deemed ‘chick lit’ have grown older and now face the trials of middle age. In Maxine Fawcett’s debut novel, Everything Is Perfect, Cassandra is no...
Time to Rest (Jack Carty, illus Natasha Carty, Scholastic)
Tuesday, 5 December 2023
Husband and wife team Jack and Natasha Carty have collaborated on a new children’s book for the first time. Time to Rest is written as a lullaby, with songwriter and poet...
Andromache Between Worlds (Gabriel Bergmoser, HarperCollins)
Tuesday, 28 November 2023
Andromache Between Worlds is the middle-grade fiction debut from prolific adult and young adult writer Gabriel Bergmoser. Andromache is the 14-year-old daughter of two celebrity adventurer journalists whose escapades have...
Birdy (Sharon Kernot, Text)
Tuesday, 28 November 2023
In Birdy, a compelling YA verse novel by CBCA award-winning author Sharon Kernot (The Art of Taxidermy), we meet Maddy, who began experiencing selective mutism and anxiety after an unnamed...
A Thousand Wasted Sundays (Victoria Vanstone, Pantera)
Tuesday, 28 November 2023
Since quitting alcohol in 2018, Queensland-based writer Victoria Vanstone has been sharing sobriety advice as a blogger and as co-host of the Sober Awkward podcast. Now, in her memoir, A...
Kintsugi (Marie O’Rourke, Fremantle)
Tuesday, 28 November 2023
Marie O’Rourke’s book of memoir essays, Kintsugi, shortlisted for the 2022 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award, takes its title from the Japanese art of repairing broken ceramics with lacquer mixed...
Gone (Glenna Thomson, Bantam)
Tuesday, 28 November 2023
On the final day of school in 1984, Rebecca Bundy is last seen by her sister, Eliza, waiting for the bus after an argument with their mother. With the disappearance...
