Once Upon a Small Rhinoceros (Meg McKinlay, illus by Leila Rudge, Walker Books)
Wednesday, 5 July 2017
There are things rhinos can and can’t do. Rhinos can wallow in mud and bathe in the sun, but can they be adventurous? In Once Upon a Small Rhinoceros, one...
Take Three Girls (Cath Crowley, Simmone Howell & Fiona Wood, Pan)
Wednesday, 5 July 2017
Take Three Girls is a novel about friendship, written by friends. The voices of Cath Crowley, Simmone Howell and Fiona Wood blend seamlessly to create a narrative about three girls...
Off-course navigation: Claire Christian on ‘Beautiful Mess’
Wednesday, 5 July 2017
Claire Christian’s 2016 Text Prize winner Beautiful Mess (Text, September) is about two misfits who help each other through the raw pain of adolescence. Reviewer Angela Crocombe spoke to the...
Mr Bambuckle’s Remarkables (Tim Harris, illus by James Hart, Random House)
Wednesday, 5 July 2017
The students of 12B aren’t quite sure what to make of their new teacher, Mr Bambuckle: he rides a unicycle, his cousin is an Icelandic rock star, and he keeps...
Pea Pod Lullaby (Glenda Millard, illus by Stephen Michael King, A&U)
Wednesday, 5 July 2017
I had read this text before, when it was included as a double-page spread in The Hush Treasure Book anthology, also illustrated by King. I loved it then and I...
Opposite Land (Charlotte Rose Hamlyn, Random House)
Wednesday, 5 July 2017
After a terrible first day at her new school and a fight with her mother, Steve storms up to her room and the next thing she knows, she has tumbled...
Ponk! (Edwina Wyatt, illus by Christopher Nielsen, Little Hare)
Wednesday, 5 July 2017
Ponk is a little bird who lives at the top of a very tall tree. From on high, Ponk can see The Hill and the strange beasts dancing and swaying...
The Scared Book (Debra Tidball, illus by Kim Siew, Lothian)
Wednesday, 5 July 2017
The Scared Book is, as its title suggests, about a frightened book that’s been infiltrated by a variety of monsters on its pages and begs for help from the reader...
Publishing delegation travels to Seoul and Beijing
Wednesday, 5 July 2017
A delegation of Australian publishers travelled to Beijing and Seoul in June to ‘research market opportunities for authors and publishers in China and Korea’. Nerrilee Weir, senior rights manager for...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 3 July 2017
The Barefoot Investor (Scott Pape, Wrightbooks) has climbed back up to the take the top spot in this week’s overall bestsellers chart. Last week’s top-selling title, The Clever Guts Diet...
On tour: David George Haskell
Thursday, 29 June 2017
Biologist David George Haskell travelled the world to explore the biological networks of different trees for his book The Song of Trees: Stories from Nature’s Great Connectors (Nero). He is...
The Fictional Dimension: Bram Presser on ‘The Book of Dirt’
Thursday, 29 June 2017
Bram Presser’s The Book of Dirt (Text, September) is ‘a remarkable tale of Holocaust survival, love and genealogical sleuthing by a grandson intent on finding the truth about his grandparents’...
The Museum of Words (Georgia Blain, Scribe)
Thursday, 29 June 2017
The Museum of Words, written as Georgia Blain knew she was dying of brain cancer, will be posthumously published. Her instinct, to the end, was to find meaning by writing...
Wish You Were Here (Sheridan Jobbins, Affirm)
Thursday, 29 June 2017
Driving solo along the great American highways in a Chevy Camaro, Sheridan Jobbins is not only a feminist role model, she embodies proof of life after heartbreak. Following her marriage...
Terra Nullius (Claire G Coleman, Hachette)
Thursday, 29 June 2017
Part science-fiction and part old Western, Terra Nullius is an ambitious debut by the winner of the 2016 black&write! Indigenous Writing Fellowship, Claire G Coleman. Jacky is a ‘Native’ who...
The Choke (Sofie Laguna, A&U)
Thursday, 29 June 2017
Sofie Laguna is a writer who can wrench beauty even from the horror of a child caught up in the toxic world of bastardised masculinity. Fearsome, vivid and raw, her...
The Last Days of Jeanne d’Arc (Ali Alizadeh, Giramondo)
Thursday, 29 June 2017
Few historical figures have held the public imagination quite like Joan of Arc. A French heroine and Roman Catholic saint, she believed that God had chosen her to lead France...
City of Crows (Chris Womersley, Picador)
Thursday, 29 June 2017
It’s quite a change of setting from 1980s Melbourne in Chris Womersley’s previous novel Cairo to the world of magic and witchcraft in 17th-century France in City of Crows. It’s...
The Book of Dirt (Bram Presser, Text)
Thursday, 29 June 2017
Three books in one, The Book of Dirt is a remarkable tale of Holocaust survival, love and genealogical sleuthing by a grandson intent on finding the truth about his grandparents’...
A Naga Odyssey: Visier’s Long Way Home (Visier Sanyu with Richard Broome, Monash University Publishing)
Thursday, 29 June 2017
Nagaland is hill country straddling the region where India, China and Myanmar meet. Co-author Visier Sanyü’s family were living a fulfilling traditional life there in the village of Khonoma until...
Dr Jekyll and Mr Seek (Anthony O’Neill, Xoum)
Thursday, 29 June 2017
Seven years after the death of Edward Hyde and the mysterious disappearance of Dr Henry Jekyll, the people of London are amazed to find that the brilliant scientist has returned....
Parting Words (Cass Moriarty, UQP)
Thursday, 29 June 2017
When Daniel Whittaker dies he leaves an unexpected legacy. His three middle-aged children—Evonne, Kelly and Richard—must track down and hand-deliver a series of letters to recipients they have never met....
Rain Birds (Harriet McKnight, Black Inc.)
Thursday, 29 June 2017
Set in regional Victoria, Rain Birds divides its time between two female protagonists. Pina has lived with her partner Alan in the area for years. Alan has early onset Alzheimer’s,...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 26 June 2017
The Clever Guts Diet (Michael Mosley, S&S) has retained the top spot in this week’s top 10 bestsellers chart, ahead of The Barefoot Investor (Scott Pape, Wrightbooks), which remains in...
The Enigmatic Mr Deakin (Judith Brett, Text)
Wednesday, 21 June 2017
Born in gold-rush Melbourne in April 1856 to parents of modest means, Alfred Deakin as a child was an avid reader and a day-dreamer. As a student at the University...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 19 June 2017
After creeping up the ranks in previous weeks, Michael Mosley’s healthy eating guide The Clever Guts Diet (S&S) has taken the top spot in this week’s top 10 bestsellers chart,...
Bestsellers this week
Tuesday, 13 June 2017
The top five titles in this week’s highest new entries chart have all debuted within the top 20, and the top three are among the top 10 bestsellers. Come Sundown...
Book blogger spotlight: Tea and Titles
Wednesday, 7 June 2017
Book bloggers Ely and Michelle are staunch advocates for greater representation of disability in books. Their blog, Tea and Titles, is primarily focused on YA literature, but also covers poetry,...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 5 June 2017
There are three brand new titles in this week’s top 10 bestsellers chart. Cassandra Clare’s Lord of Shadows (S&S)—the second book in the ‘Dark Artifices’ trilogy—has debuted in the top...
Little book of horrors: Jack Henseleit on ‘The Vampire Knife’
Thursday, 1 June 2017
Jack Henseleit’s debut junior fiction book The Vampire Knife (Hardie Grant Egmont) ‘will scratch [younger readers’] terror itch without drawing too many concerned looks from their parents’, writes reviewer Holly...
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