The Rapids: Ways of Looking at Mania (Sam Twyford-Moore, NewSouth)
Friday, 1 June 2018
Sam Twyford-Moore’s The Rapids is a fascinating exploration of the fragility of the mind, states of mania and how mental ill-health is treated in art and popular culture. Having been...
The Eastern Curlew (Harry Saddler, Affirm Press)
Friday, 1 June 2018
All birds are miracles, but migratory shorebirds are perhaps the most wondrous of all. Author Harry Saddler is fascinated by the Eastern Curlews that chase summer across the hemispheres, breeding...
No-Country Woman: A Memoir of Not Belonging (Zoya Patel, Hachette)
Friday, 1 June 2018
In her razor-sharp debut, No-Country Woman: A Memoir of Not Belonging, Fijian-Indian-Australian writer Zoya Patel charts the chasm that results from juggling three cultures at once, never completely belonging to...
The Honourable Thief (Meaghan Wilson Anastasios, Macmillan)
Friday, 1 June 2018
Set in Crete and Turkey in the years around World War II, The Honourable Thief centres on the adventures and misfortunes of Benedict Hitchens, an archaeologist and reluctant dealer of...
Ghost in the machine: Angela Meyer on ‘A Superior Spectre’
Friday, 1 June 2018
Writer and editor Angela Meyer’s debut full-length novel, A Superior Spectre (August), is the first book published under the new Ventura Press imprint for emerging writers, Peter Bishop Books. The...
Telling tales: Moreno Giovannoni on ‘The Fireflies of Autumn’
Thursday, 31 May 2018
Moreno Giovannoni’s The Fireflies of Autumn (Black Inc., July) is a collection of loosely connected short stories, describing life in the Tuscan village of San Ginese. ‘[It] reads like top-notch...
World class: Jeremy Lachlan on ‘Jane Doe and the Cradle of All Worlds’
Thursday, 31 May 2018
Jeremy Lachlan’s middle-grade adventure Jane Doe and the Cradle of All Worlds (Hardie Grant Egmont, August) is ‘a thrilling story set in a universe made up of multiple worlds’ that features...
Kaleidoscopic views: Emily Gale on ‘I Am Out with Lanterns’
Thursday, 31 May 2018
Emily Gale’s I Am Out with Lanterns (Random House, August) intertwines the points of view of several teenagers to create a story that is ‘nuanced, complex and thoroughly devourable’, writes Jordi...
I Am Out with Lanterns (Emily Gale, Random House)
Thursday, 31 May 2018
I Am Out with Lanterns is nuanced, complex and thoroughly readable. Told from multiple perspectives, it follows a kaleidoscope of characters as it explores community, connections, and the desire to...
After the Lights Go Out (Lili Wilkinson, A&U)
Thursday, 31 May 2018
Emergency drills, bug-out bags, a secret underground bunker with a year’s supply of food—life’s a little different when your dad’s a doomsday prepper. Seventeen-year-old Pru Palmer and her two younger...
Zeroes and Ones (Cristy Burne, Xoum)
Thursday, 31 May 2018
Zeroes and Ones is a history of the most exciting milestones in computing, with a focus on individual inventors and innovators. It spans from Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine and Ada...
A Song Only I Can Hear (Barry Jonsberg, A&U)
Thursday, 31 May 2018
Rob Fitzgerald is 13 years old, painfully shy, prone to panic attacks, and desperately, disgustingly in love for the very first time. Rob begins receiving texts from an unknown phone...
Jane Doe and the Cradle of All Worlds (Jeremy Lachlan, Hardie Grant Egmont)
Thursday, 31 May 2018
Immediately exciting and inventive, this is a thrilling story set in a universe made up of multiple worlds. Twelve years ago, Jane and her father arrived at the island of...
Wisp: A Story of Hope (Zana Fraillon, illus by Grahame Baker Smith, Lothian)
Thursday, 31 May 2018
There have been some beautiful, compassionate picture books that feature the plight of refugees and their search for a peaceful life away from war and poverty. Joining these is this...
Sonam and the Silence (Eddie Ayres, illus by Ronak Taher, A&U)
Thursday, 31 May 2018
A fable about a young girl in Kabul during the Taliban occupation hardly sounds like the stuff of picture books so Sonam and the Silence was warily approached. However, fear...
Maya and Cat (Caroline Magerl, Walker Books)
Thursday, 31 May 2018
Caroline Magerl has a very distinctive style of illustration and this book does not disappoint. It’s full of cats. ‘On a roof, as wet as a seal, as grey as...
How Did I Get Here? (Philip Bunting, Scholastic)
Thursday, 31 May 2018
At some point the little kid in your life will venture to ask the question feared by most adults: ‘How did I get here?’ The history of life is a...
Backyard (Ananda Braxton-Smith, illus by Lizzy Newcomb, Black Dog Books)
Thursday, 31 May 2018
Backyard is a gentle reminder that to experience nature, you don’t need to venture much further than out the back door. Set in a city ‘that is like other cities’,...
Trace (Rachael Brown, Scribe)
Thursday, 31 May 2018
Journalist Rachael Brown’s ABC podcast Trace, which earned comparisons to the global sensation Serial, investigated the cold-case murder of Melbourne bookshop owner Maria James. The 38-year-old single mother was stabbed...
Teacher (Gabbie Stroud, A&U)
Thursday, 31 May 2018
Gabbie Stroud always wanted to be a teacher. Her childhood teachers changed her life, and she wanted to do the same for others. This memoir weaves together a broader look...
Happy Never After (Jill Stark, Scribe)
Thursday, 31 May 2018
Picking up where her debut bestseller High Sobriety left off, journalist and author Jill Stark’s Happy Never After charts the period from her breakdown in October 2014 to her ensuing...
Always Another Country (Sisonke Msimang, Text)
Thursday, 31 May 2018
A coming-of-age memoir brimming with no-holds-barred honesty, Always Another Country is a story about love, survival, politics and home. Sisonke Msimang charts various stages of her life, observing her surroundings...
Too Much Lip (Melissa Lucashenko, UQP)
Thursday, 31 May 2018
The title of Melissa Lucashenko’s latest book—both an accusation and a lament—speaks of hunger, greed, desperation, destruction and redemption. Central to the novel are themes of rage, incarceration, and generational...
A Superior Spectre (Angela Meyer, Peter Bishop)
Thursday, 31 May 2018
Angela Meyer’s A Superior Spectre is an eerie, gothic work that is both a richly detailed historical novel and a chilling prediction of the near future. The book follows Jeff,...
Scrublands (Chris Hammer, A&U)
Thursday, 31 May 2018
In a dying Riverina town that’s suffering a merciless drought, ‘good people fight to retain honour and dignity against unfair odds’. Shockingly, one Sunday morning, the town’s priest opens fire...
Prize Fighter (Future D Fidel, Hachette)
Thursday, 31 May 2018
Isa Alaki is 10 years old, a budding engineer with a loving family in the Congolese city of Bukavu, when a rebel militia descends on his city, slaughtering his family and...
The Fireflies of Autumn (Moreno Giovannoni, Black Inc.)
Thursday, 31 May 2018
The stories in this impressive fictional debut by Moreno Giovannoni cover all aspects of noisy, nosey, gossipy Italian village life. Ninety-year-old Ugo introduces a series of stories from his Tuscan...
The Biographer’s Lover (Ruby J Murray, Black Inc.)
Thursday, 31 May 2018
Ruby J Murray returns with her second novel, The Biographer’s Lover, a book that is as much about the art of biography as it is a fictional story about a...
Beautiful Revolutionary (Laura Elizabeth Woollett, Scribe)
Thursday, 31 May 2018
In this meticulously researched first novel, Laura Elizabeth Woollett tells the story of Jim Jones’ religious cult, the Peoples Temple, infamous for the mass-suicide of nearly a thousand people in...
The Shanghai Wife (Emma Harcourt, HQ)
Thursday, 31 May 2018
Escaping a mysterious past in Australia, Annie Brand dreams of adventures along the Yangtze with her new husband, but soon finds herself ensconced in Shanghai for her own safety. Chafing...
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