Archie and the Bear (Zanni Louise, illus by David Mackintosh, Little Hare)
Tuesday, 14 March 2017
Archie and the Bear is the whimsical first collaboration between author Zanni Louise and illustrator David Mackintosh. It’s the story of a boy who is sure he’s a bear, and...
Boy (Phil Cummings, illus by Shane Devries, Scholastic)
Tuesday, 14 March 2017
Veteran children’s author Phil Cummings has produced over 60 books for young readers so he knows how to tell a simple story. The nameless titular character lives in a small...
Great Goal! Marvellous Mark! (Katrina Germein, illus by Janine Dawson, Ford Street)
Tuesday, 14 March 2017
Great Goal! Marvellous Mark! is a lively alphabet book for budding AFL champions. The story of a junior football game is woven into the alphabet book structure, capturing the joy...
A Cardboard Palace (Allayne L Webster, MidnightSun)
Tuesday, 14 March 2017
A Cardboard Palace is the Dickensian story of 11-year-old Jorge, a Romanian boy brought to Paris to be part of a gang of child thieves. Jorge is a sweet, kind...
To the Lighthouse (Cristy Burne, Fremantle Press)
Tuesday, 14 March 2017
Isaac has finally talked his mum into a proper holiday—a trip to Rottnest Island, where he’s hoping for a proper adventure instead of a holiday care program. But he’ll still...
The Wayward Witch and the Feelings Monster: Polly and Buster Book One (Sally Rippin, HGE)
Tuesday, 14 March 2017
Polly is an unusual witch—she can’t read spells because the letters get jumbled and so she makes mistakes. Buster is an unusual monster—emotions make him shrink and swell. They are...
Finding Nevo (Nevo Zisin, Black Dog Books)
Tuesday, 14 March 2017
As a young child, Nevo Zisin knew they were a boy—the only problem was they were born a girl. They were bullied for being a tomboy at their Jewish primary...
Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology (ed by Danielle Binks, HarperCollins)
Tuesday, 14 March 2017
Begin, End, Begin traverses the rough terrain of adolescence, pausing to wonder at some of the many beginnings and endings that young adults will encounter during their high-school years. This...
Heads and Tails (John Canty, Berbay Publishing)
Tuesday, 14 March 2017
Heads and Tails is an educational book for small children either at home or at school, incorporating a game into the narrative to make the animal information fun rather than...
Nanna’s Button Tin (Dianne Wolfer, illus by Heather Potter, Walker Books)
Tuesday, 14 March 2017
I had a teddy who lost an eye, but my Nanna didn’t have a button tin. My daughter had a nanna who kept her buttons in a range of colour-coded...
The Last Garden (Eva Hornung, Text)
Tuesday, 14 March 2017
Eva Hornung won the PM’s Literary Award for Fiction for her 2009 novel Dog Boy. In The Last Garden, she once again explores the frailties of humans and the strength...
Bestsellers this week
Tuesday, 14 March 2017
There’s a new title at the top of the bestsellers chart this week, with The CSIRO Low-Carb Diet (Grant Brinkworth & Pennie Taylor, Macmillan) leading the overall bestsellers and fastest...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 6 March 2017
The film tie-in edition of Craig Silvey’s Jasper Jones (A&U) has entered the top 10 bestsellers chart this week in eighth spot following the film’s release in Australian cinemas. It’s...
Small publisher spotlight: Zabriskie Books
Wednesday, 1 March 2017
Sydney-based Zabriskie Books is building a ‘beautiful, engaging and varied nonfiction catalogue’. Bookseller turned publisher Niki Zubrzycki spoke to Books+Publishing for our Small Publisher Spotlight series. Describe your company in...
Adult Fantasy (Briohny Doyle, Scribe)
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
Is ‘adulthood’ still achieved by ticking off a series of milestones, like marriage, mortgages, careers and babies? How might those milestones—and our ability to tick them off—have changed since the...
Woman of Substances: A Journey into Addiction and Treatment (Jenny Valentish, Black Inc.)
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
‘Women,’ writes Jenny Valentish, ‘drink and take drugs because it’s fun. They do it to be bulletproof. To be more intimate, or more intimidating.’ For most, this use is manageable....
Australian Lives: An Intimate History (Anisa Puri & Alistair Thomson, Monash University Press)
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
Using interviews recorded by the National Library of Australia’s Australian Generations Oral History Project, the authors of this major book have selected the recorded stories of 50 people to provide...
The Hot Guy (Mel Campbell & Anthony Morris, Echo)
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
When sports publicist Cate is dumped by her boyfriend for inappropriate puns about polo and social climbing, her friends introduce her to The Hot Guy—refuge of dumped women everywhere and...
Congo Dawn (Katherine Scholes, Viking)
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
Gunfire and grenades. Suffering and bravery. Fathers and daughters. In her seventh adult novel, Katherine Scholes (author of The Rain Queen, The Stone Angel and The Perfect Wife) again draws...
The Hidden Hours (Sara Foster, S&S)
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
Arabella Lane is a beautiful, successful publishing executive whose body is found in the Thames following the office Christmas party. The last person to see Arabella alive is Eleanor, who...
A Hundred Small Lessons (Ashley Hay, A&U)
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
A Hundred Small Lessons (the title is drawn from a Michael Ondaatje poem) explores notions of home, family, identity, creativity, ageing and our relationship with cities and the natural world....
The Midsummer Garden (Kirsty Manning, A&U)
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
The Midsummer Garden is the first novel from former lifestyle and travel writer Kirsty Manning, and follows two storylines in tandem. One narrative centres on medieval French cook Artemisia and...
Rubik (Elizabeth Tan, Brio)
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
In Elizabeth Tan’s debut novel-in-stories, the untimely death of young Perth woman Elena Rubik tears a hole in the fabric of reality, and the reader is thrown into a sprawling...
See What I Have Done (Sarah Schmidt, Hachette)
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
Like Hannah Kent’s Burial Rites and Laura Elizabeth Woollett’s The Love of a Bad Man, See What I Have Done is based on true crimes committed by women. In 1892, 32-year-old Lizzie...
Storyland (Catherine McKinnon, Fourth Estate)
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
Storyland by author and playwright Catherine McKinnon is a beautifully woven story of Australia: the land, the animals and the people—those who have always been here, those that have arrived,...
On the Many Shapes Bodies Will Take (Karen Andrews, Miscellaneous Press)
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
Karen Andrews’ reputation as a writer, editor and publisher precedes her, and this slim volume of poetry tackles the course of a life with such tenderness and grace that you...
After (Nikki Gemmell, Fourth Estate)
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
Freedom is the right to choose the way we live, but what about the way we die? Euthanasia is a difficult subject and one that creates an emotional and political...
Beyond the Rock: The Life of Joan Lindsay and the Mystery of Picnic at Hanging Rock (Janelle McCulloch, Echo)
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
Strange, moody and yet also darkly comic, Picnic at Hanging Rock has enjoyed Australian classic status for close to 50 years. Is the novel fact or fiction? The question has...
Fear of Abandonment: Australia in the World since 1942 (Allan Gyngell, LTUP)
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
Allan Gyngell has written Fear of Abandonment with detail and insight drawn from a long career in foreign policy, from diplomat to intelligence advisor. It examines Australia’s involvement with the...
Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea and the Deep Origins of Consciousness (Peter Godfrey-Smith, HarperCollins)
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
When we think of intelligence in the animal kingdom, it is usually the mammals that spring to mind, like dogs or chimps—the creatures that we can most easily identify with....
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