Australian Football’s 100 Year Club: Celebrating Three Great Teams (Andrew Clarke, Gelding Street Press)
Tuesday, 21 January 2025
Hawthorn’s Hawks. Footscray’s Bulldogs. North Melbourne’s Kangaroos. Australian Football’s 100 Year Club: Celebrating Three Great Teams celebrates the centenary of these three iconic Aussie Rules clubs in 2025. From the...
New Robbins title debuts at number one
Friday, 17 January 2025
Top 10 bestsellers The Let Them Theory (Mel Robbins, Hay House) RecipeTin Eats: Tonight (Nagi Maehashi, Macmillan) Here One Moment (Liane Moriarty, Macmillan) The Housemaid (Freida McFadden, Hachette) Escaping Peril...
Books in the media this weekend, 18–19 January
Friday, 17 January 2025
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. Please note, following the summer holiday period, some publications have not yet returned to their...
Half Truth (Nadia Mahjouri, Penguin)
Tuesday, 14 January 2025
Half Truth follows Zahra, a young Moroccan Australian woman, and her grandmother, Khadija. In alternating narratives, the novel follows the pair as they come of age in their respective timelines. The...
A Good Kind of Trouble (Brooke Blurton & Melanie Saward, HarperCollins)
Tuesday, 14 January 2025
Noongar-Yamatji youth advocate Brooke Blurton has teamed up with Bigambul and Wakka Wakka author and academic Melanie Saward (Love Unleashed) for a new YA series, beginning with A Good Kind of...
The Knowing (Madeleine Ryan, Scribe)
Tuesday, 14 January 2025
Camille works for a semi-famous florist in Armadale, where she commutes daily from her home in the country. She yearns for a life full of beauty and meaning and can’t...
Outrageous Fortunes (Megan Brown & Lucy Sussex, La Trobe)
Tuesday, 14 January 2025
‘Mary Fortune’ might sound like a pseudonym but it’s the name of one of Australia’s most prolific—if often overlooked—woman crime writers. Outrageous Fortunes is a dual biography of Fortune and...
Joan Lindsay: The Hidden Life of the Woman Who Wrote ‘Picnic at Hanging Rock’ (Brenda Niall, Text)
Tuesday, 14 January 2025
Brenda Niall’s portrait of author Joan Lindsay is bookended by her charming recollections of meeting Lindsay in 1984, just months before her death. In the intervening chapters of this concise...
Creature Corridors (Billie Rooney, illus Anke Noack, CSIRO Publishing)
Tuesday, 14 January 2025
Billie Rooney’s educational picture book, Creature Corridors, explores how human infrastructure impacts animal habitats and highlights the role of wildlife corridors in helping animals travel and live safely. The book...
Harry and Gran Bake a Cake (Fiona McIntosh, illus Sara Acton, Puffin)
Tuesday, 14 January 2025
Fiona McIntosh (The Sugar Palace), the much-celebrated author for grown-ups, makes her debut in picture books with the simply delicious Harry and Gran Bake a Cake. A day in the...
Sunny and Shadow (Helen Milroy, Fremantle)
Tuesday, 14 January 2025
Sunny and Shadow is a heartfelt junior fiction novel and intergenerational tale that follows Calla and her descendants, who all have the precious gift of talking with and caring for...
Creating Schools: Where Students and Teachers Want to Be (Michael Lawrence & Fabio D’Agostin, Melbourne Books)
Tuesday, 14 January 2025
Teachers Michael Lawrence (Testing 3, 2, 1) and Fabio D’Agostin (whose PhD was called ‘Task-Related Emotions in Mathematics Education’) have written an informed and considered exploration of the growing crises...
Maehashi continues to rule bestsellers
Friday, 10 January 2025
Top 10 bestsellers RecipeTin Eats: Tonight (Nagi Maehashi, Macmillan) Escaping Peril (Wings of Fire graphic novel #8) (Tui Sutherland, Scholastic) Here One Moment (Liane Moriarty, Macmillan) Bake with Brooki (Brooke...
Another week with two Maehashi titles in the top 10
Friday, 13 December 2024
Top 10 bestsellers RecipeTin Eats: Tonight (Nagi Maehashi, Macmillan) Big Jim Begins (Dog Man #13) (Dav Pilkey, Scholastic) The Voice Inside (John Farnham & Poppy Stockell, Hachette) Guinness World Records...
Books in the media this week, 14–15 December
Friday, 13 December 2024
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper My Glorious Defeats (Barrett Brown, Farrar Straus Giroux) Raging Grace (ed...
Combined print and ebook bestsellers for third quarter 2024
Friday, 13 December 2024
Top 10 print bestsellers It Ends With Us (Colleen Hoover) Here One Moment (Liane Moriarty) Reckless (Lauren Roberts) It Starts with Us (Colleen Hoover) RecipeTin Eats: Dinner (Nagi Maehashi) Storm...
Grave Empire: Book One of The Great Silence (Richard Swan, Orbit)
Tuesday, 10 December 2024
In Grave Empire, Richard Swan returns to the world of his Empire of the Wolf fantasy trilogy in a way that’s thrilling and wholly unexpected. Set two hundred years after...
The Body Next Door (Zane Lovitt, Text)
Tuesday, 10 December 2024
Nestled in Melbourne’s western suburbs, Carnation Way is a quiet street of identical-looking houses with one distinction: number 37 was the scene of a murder 13 years ago. In the...
Unhallowed Halls (Lili Wilkinson, A&U)
Tuesday, 10 December 2024
Lili Wilkinson’s latest young adult novel, Unhallowed Halls, is a dark academia fantasy about finding your inner strength and accepting who you are. After a tragic incident that ended her...
Your Soul Purpose: Manifest a Life You Love (Aubrey Daquinag, Hardie Grant Books)
Tuesday, 10 December 2024
Aubrey Daquinag’s Your Soul Purpose: Manifest a Life You Love offers an accessible entry point for readers looking to shift their thinking about life. The book introduces key concepts to...
Gutsy Girls (Josie McSkimming, UQP)
Tuesday, 10 December 2024
When Dorothy Porter died in 2008, Australia lost one of its greatest contemporary poets. The author of nine poetry collections and five verse novels, Porter had a lusty, raw and...
Llamas in the Library (James Hinchon, illus Ian Worrall-Dutton, Five Mile)
Tuesday, 10 December 2024
James Hinchon’s Llamas in the Library is a rollicking adventure about a group of children who must team up to herd a marauding group of llamas that infiltrates their school...
Brightest Wild (Tania Crampton-Larking, Lothian)
Tuesday, 10 December 2024
Brightest Wild, by Mirning woman Tania Crampton-Larking, was a winning manuscript in the 2019 black&write! Fellowships for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers. It tells the story of 12-year-old Alex,...
Brave in Every Which Way (Maddy Mara, illus Lauren Degraaf, Affirm)
Tuesday, 10 December 2024
Brave in Every Which Way by Maddy Mara (aka Hilary Rogers and Meredith Badger, who also produced Itty Bitty Kitty and The Greatest Mistakes That Went Right under this same...
The Grapevine (Kate Kemp, Hachette)
Tuesday, 10 December 2024
As summertime scorches Canberra and the 1970s draw to a close, a severed foot is discovered on the mountain behind Warrah Place. When it’s identified as belonging to Antonio Marietti,...
Diary of a Marine Biologist (Anita Thomas, illus Sarah Wilkins & Anita Thomas, Walker)
Tuesday, 10 December 2024
Did you know that oysters are often called the kidneys of the ocean because they filter a bathtub’s worth of water every two days? Or that marine biologists play a...
Australia’s bestsellers during Black Friday week 2024
Friday, 6 December 2024
As previously reported, according to Nielsen BookData, Black Friday–week sales in 2024 ‘saw volume sales in the Australian book market 40% higher than the average weekly sales in the four...
‘The Songbird and the Heart of Stone’ debuts at nine
Friday, 6 December 2024
Top 10 bestsellers RecipeTin Eats: Tonight (Nagi Maehashi, Macmillan) Guinness World Records 2025 (Guinness World Records) In Too Deep (Lee Child & Andrew Child, Bantam) The Voice Inside (John Farnham...
Books in the media this weekend, 7–8 December
Friday, 6 December 2024
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Didion & Babitz (Lili Anolik, Atlantic) Indigenous Knowledge (ed by Marcia...
The Library of Bears (Cat Rabbit, Berbay)
Tuesday, 3 December 2024
The Library of Bears, the fourth book by textile artist and designer Cat Rabbit (How to Make Friends: A Bear’s Guide), reassures children that while trying new things can be...
