Pulse Points (Jennifer Down, Text)
Monday, 22 May 2017
A woman makes a pilgrimage to a forest in Japan to honour her dead brother; a group of young men are out on the prowl in suburban Australia; two siblings...
Lovesick (Jean Flynn, XO Romance)
Monday, 22 May 2017
Beth Hampson is cruising along with an okay job, sharing a flat with her sister in Melbourne and crushing on one of the doctors at work. She’s not desperate for...
The Art of Navigation (Rose Michael, UWAP)
Monday, 22 May 2017
Beginning with a wild teenage night in 1987, Rose Michael’s The Art of Navigation quickly confounds the expectations created by its Australian gothic beginning. Despite being wise beyond her years,...
The Inaugural Meeting of the Fairvale Ladies Book Club (Sophie Green, Hachette)
Monday, 22 May 2017
Sophie Green’s novel The Inaugural Meeting of the Fairvale Ladies Book Club is an enjoyable, if predictable, examination of how women’s friendships and indeed good reading can overcome the darkest...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 22 May 2017
Paula Hawkins’ Into the Water (Doubleday) has retained the top spot the overall bestsellers chart for its second week of release, ahead of The Barefoot Investor (Scott Pape, Wrightbooks) and The...
Book blogger spotlight: Books for a Delicate Eternity
Wednesday, 17 May 2017
Chiara Sullivan blogs about YA books, with a particular focus on diversity and LGBTQIA+ representation. Blogging since 2003, she is a passionate believer in the importance of young members of...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 15 May 2017
Two major new releases have topped this week’s overall bestsellers chart, with Into the Water (Paula Hawkins, Doubleday) edging out A Court of Wings and Ruin (Sarah J Maas, Bloomsbury)...
Quiet Magic: Emily Rodda on ‘The Shop at Hoopers Bend’
Thursday, 11 May 2017
Emily Rodda’s latest novel The Shop at Hoopers Bend is a return to the author’s earlier books, where the magic is ‘about following your instincts’ rather than fantasy realms. Fay...
Book blogger spotlight: Reading Matters
Wednesday, 10 May 2017
UK-based Australian blogger Kim Forrester started Reading Matters in 2004 to help her remember what she was reading. Now she likes to focus on ‘books that may have slipped under...
The Undercurrent (Paula Weston, Text)
Tuesday, 9 May 2017
Jules De Marchi just wants to live a normal life—but it’s a bit hard when there is an electrical current running beneath her skin that she can’t entirely control. She...
Gap Year in Ghost Town (Michael Pryor, A&U)
Tuesday, 9 May 2017
Anton is just a regular 18-year-old guy taking a gap year. He’s working at his dad’s second-hand bookshop, spending time with his best friend Bec, and getting some experience in...
In the Dark Spaces (Cally Black, Hardie Grant Egmont)
Tuesday, 9 May 2017
All Tamara wants is a safe space to live with her aunt and baby cousin, a place where she doesn’t have to hide and where they can talk louder than...
The Shop at Hoopers Bend (Emily Rodda, HarperCollins)
Tuesday, 9 May 2017
Emily Rodda is a household name in children’s literature. While her younger fans will be familiar with her fantasy realms, her new book has more in common with her earlier...
Lintang and the Pirate Queen (Tamara Moss, Random House)
Tuesday, 9 May 2017
Lintang lives in a world where creatures known as ‘mythies’ cause mayhem. Her home, the island of Desa, is protected by a sea monster, and Lintang yearns to travel out...
Patty Hits the Court: Game Day Book One (Patty Mills & Jared Thomas, illus by Nahum Ziersch)
Tuesday, 9 May 2017
Patty Hits the Court, the first instalment in the ‘Game Day’ series, is the latest in a tradition of sports stars writing for the junior crowd—this time it’s San Antonio...
Sarah and the Steep Slope (Danny Parker, illus by Matt Ottley, Little Hare)
Tuesday, 9 May 2017
Sarah and the Steep Slope is a new picture book from the creative duo behind Tree and Parachute. Sarah wakes up one day to find a slope trapping her in...
Fluke (Lesley Gibbes, illus by Michelle Dawson, Working Title Press)
Tuesday, 9 May 2017
This new picture book by Lesley Gibbes, author of CBCA Honour Book Scary Night, is based on the true story of a southern right whale who gave birth to her...
Watching Out (Julian Burnside, Scribe)
Tuesday, 9 May 2017
Julian Burnside is well known to those who follow refugee policy and human rights issues in Australia. In Watching Out, a successor to the earlier volume Watching Brief, Burnside examines...
Whipbird (Robert Drewe, Viking)
Tuesday, 9 May 2017
What better set-up than a huge family gathering to dissect attitudes, skewer pretensions and tell lots of stories? On a hot November weekend at his newly acquired vineyard near Ballarat,...
Taboo (Kim Scott, Picador)
Tuesday, 9 May 2017
Despite a bracingly strange start—a dead narrator speaks of when ‘we lifted ourselves from the riverbed and went back up the hill into town’; a skeleton of wood and stone...
On the Java Ridge (Jock Serong, Text)
Tuesday, 9 May 2017
Two boats on Indonesian waters: one carrying Australian surf tourists, the other filled with asylum seekers. In Canberra, the Minister for Immigration announces a new policy to outsource responsibility for...
The Lone Child (Anna George, Viking)
Tuesday, 9 May 2017
Away from the city and the lover who left her when she was eight months pregnant, Neve Ayres spends her days alone with her newborn son in the Victorian coastal...
Common People (Tony Birch, UQP)
Tuesday, 9 May 2017
Common People is Tony Birch’s third story collection and sixth work of fiction. He is a natural storyteller (as are many of his characters), and is deft at creating believable, if...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 8 May 2017
A number of new releases have entered the top 10 bestsellers chart this week, although none could unseat The Barefoot Investor (Scott Pape, Wrightbooks) from the top spot. The second, third...
Heavyweight division: Peter Carnavas on ‘The Elephant’
Wednesday, 3 May 2017
Best known for his picture books, Peter Carnavas’ junior fiction novel The Elephant (UQP, July) ‘paints a portrait of a small family coming to terms with a tragedy through love,...
Crime teen investigation: Tristan Bancks on ‘The Fall’
Wednesday, 3 May 2017
In Tristan Bancks’ middle-grade novel The Fall, 12-year-old Sam Garner finds himself investigating a crime after witnessing a body falling from his apartment building. Bancks spoke to reviewer Braiden Asciak....
One Thousand Trees (Kyle Hughes-Odgers, Fremantle Press)
Wednesday, 3 May 2017
A beautiful, dreamy contemplation, Kyle Hughes-Odgers’ One Thousand Trees merges a sparse narrative with illustrations that are tender, controlled and poignant. There is more the hint of a story than...
Peas and Quiet (Gabrielle Tozer, illus by Sue deGennaro, HarperCollins)
Wednesday, 3 May 2017
Best known for her YA writing, Gabrielle Tozer’s first picture book tells the story of two peas called Pip and Pop, who live together in a pod. But all is...
The Sloth Who Came to Stay (Margaret Wild, illus by Vivienne To, A&U)
Wednesday, 3 May 2017
Certain animals, such as lions and elephants, are ubiquitous in picture books—but there are hardly any with sloths in them. Perhaps Margaret Wild’s latest effort might start a new trend....
Cyclones and Shadows (Pat Dudgeon, Laura Dudgeon, Sabrina Dudgeon & Darlene Oxenham, Fremantle Press)
Wednesday, 3 May 2017
This sweet collection of stories from Fremantle Press’ ‘Waarda’ series will appeal to teachers, librarians and parents who want to talk with kids about the different experiences of people around...
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