Sci-Fi Junior High (John Martin & Scott Seegert, Koala Books)
Monday, 27 February 2017
As the son of two supergeniuses, Kelvin Klosmo has Mighty Mega Supergenius-sized shoes to fill … The only trouble is his supergeniusness hasn’t quite kicked in yet. When Kelvin’s parents...
Night Swimming (Steph Bowe, Text)
Monday, 27 February 2017
Kirby Arrow and her best friend Clancy Lee are the only two 17-year-olds in their tiny town. Clancy wants to leave as soon as possible, but Kirby is determined to...
Remind Me How This Ends (Gabrielle Tozer, HarperCollins)
Monday, 27 February 2017
In Remind Me How This Ends, the author of The Intern, Gabrielle Tozer, swaps the high-pressure world of the fashion industry for a quieter and more introspective story about love,...
The Secret Science of Magic (Melissa Keil, HGE)
Monday, 27 February 2017
Melissa Keil has established herself as a powerful new voice in contemporary YA after winning the Ampersand Prize for her first novel Life in Outer Space and an Inky shortlisting...
The Silent Invasion (James Bradley, Pan)
Monday, 27 February 2017
Callie was six when the Change came to earth. She’s 14 now, and the world’s a different place. The Change, a mysterious illness spread by alien seedpods, has thrown humanity...
Spirited away: Gabrielle Wang on ‘The Beast of Hushing Woods’
Monday, 27 February 2017
Gabrielle Wang’s The Beast of Hushing Woods (Puffin, April) is a ‘lyrical, dreamlike fable for confident readers aged 10 and up’, which ‘marries snippets of Eastern mythology with a setting...
Movie mayhem: Alex Miles on ‘Mammoth Mistake’
Monday, 27 February 2017
Mammoth Mistake is the first book in Alex Miles’ new ‘Olive Black’ series, about a 10-year-old actress who juggles friendships, rivals and on-set hijinks. Reviewer Bec Kavanagh spoke to the...
Small Publisher Spotlight: Real Film and Publishing
Wednesday, 22 February 2017
Established in 2012, Melbourne-based Real Film and Publishing specialises in ‘memoirs, biographies, family histories and legacy books’ in high-quality hardback. Only a few of the books are available commercially, as...
Data and innovation discussed at Digital Book World 2017
Wednesday, 22 February 2017
The importance of data and innovation were the takeaways from this year’s Digital Book World, reports Hardie Grant Books managing director Roxy Ryan. At Digital Book World in New York...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 20 February 2017
J D Robb’s Echoes in Death (Hachette) is the highest new entry in this week’s charts, debuting in second spot on the top 10 behind The Barefoot Investor (Scott Pape,...
Comic timing: Peter Helliar on ‘Frankie Fish and the Sonic Suitcase’
Wednesday, 15 February 2017
Comedian Peter Helliar’s first children’s book Frankie Fish and the Sonic Suitcase (HGE, February) is a time-travel adventure starring 12-year-old Frankie and his cranky grandad, who has a hook for...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 13 February 2017
Liane Moriarty has four titles in the top 10 bestsellers chart this week, with the TV tie-in edition of Big Little Lies debuting at number seven, joining Truly Madly Guilty...
Unlocking the memories: J C Burke on ‘The Things We Promise’
Wednesday, 8 February 2017
Set in the 1990s around the HIV/AIDS crisis, J C Burke’s YA novel The Things We Promise (A&U, March) is a ‘heartbreaking examination of grief, love and prejudice from the...
The Things We Promise (J C Burke, A&U)
Wednesday, 8 February 2017
Gemma can’t wait for her brother Billy to return from New York. An up-and-coming hair and make-up artist, Billy has promised to help Gemma get ready for her school formal,...
Frogkisser! (Garth Nix, A&U)
Wednesday, 8 February 2017
Princess Anya, second in line to the throne, lives with her childish, spoilt older sister Princess Morven, her stepmother and her step-stepfather, Evil Socrerer Duke Rikard (it’s far less complicated...
The Eleventh Hour: Agent Nomad Book One (Skye Melki-Wegner, Random House)
Wednesday, 8 February 2017
The Eleventh Hour kicks off the ‘Agent Nomad’ series by Skye Melki-Wegner, author of ‘Chasing the Valley’. It follows 15-year-old protagonist Natalie Palladino as she discovers a world she thought...
Harry Kruize, Born to Lose (Paul Collins, Ford Street)
Wednesday, 8 February 2017
Harry feels like a born loser: his dad walked out of his life and never looked back, the school bully has Harry squarely in his sights, and his sessions with...
Shearing Time (Allison Paterson, illus by Shane McGrath, Big Sky Publishing)
Wednesday, 8 February 2017
Though shearing is engrained in Australian mythology, chances are that most children aren’t familiar with the practice of removing a woolly coat from its owner. Allison Paterson’s book tries, with...
Mopoke (Philip Bunting, Scholastic)
Wednesday, 8 February 2017
‘This is a mopoke’ is the opening line of a new picture book that stars the Bookbook Owl. Extremely common around Australia, this quiet bird keeps to itself. Or at...
The Fantastic Recipe Machine (Chihiro Takeuchi, Berbay Publishing)
Wednesday, 8 February 2017
Chihiro Takeuchi is a paper-cut artist and the intricate pictures in this picture book are a startling sample of her craft. The Fantastic Recipe Machine is a testament to the...
Florette (Anna Walker, Viking)
Wednesday, 8 February 2017
Anna Walker’s picture book Mr Huff was awarded the 2016 CBCA Book of the Year in the Early Childhood category, so more picture books from her are eagerly awaited. Florette...
Small publisher spotlight: Griffith Review
Wednesday, 8 February 2017
Launched in 2003 and based at Brisbane’s Griffith University, the Griffith Review publishes quarterly books around a topical theme. Its unique model features a mix of essays, memoir, reportage, short...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 6 February 2017
The film tie-in edition of Lion: A Long Way Home (Saroo Brierley, Penguin) has entered the top 10 bestsellers chart in third place this week and risen to the top...
From the Wreck (Jane Rawson, Transit Lounge)
Thursday, 2 February 2017
In 1859, the steamship Admella sunk off the coast of South Australia. Among the few lucky survivors was sailor George Hills and a mysterious woman who vanished upon her rescue....
Bloodlines (Nicole Sinclair, Margaret River Press)
Thursday, 2 February 2017
Thirty-one-year-old Beth is lost in her current life in Western Australia’s wheat belt and running from a past that haunts her. She seeks refuge on an island in Papua New...
The Circle and the Equator (Kyra Giorgi, UWA Publishing)
Thursday, 2 February 2017
The Circle and the Equator introduces readers to an original and fresh voice in Australian fiction. Perth-born writer and cultural historian Kyra Giorgi has drawn on her love of history...
Do You Love Me or What (Sue Woolfe, S&S)
Thursday, 2 February 2017
A dancer moves towards clarity; an ill-defined friendship threatens to sink a marriage; a strange Florentine love affair awakens a traveller’s longing for home. Across eight stories and a cast...
Down the Hume (Peter Polites, Hachette)
Thursday, 2 February 2017
The narrator of Peter Polites’ smart and pleasantly unnerving debut novel, Down the Hume, is in a bad relationship with a physically abusive man who is only ever referred to...
First, We Make the Beast Beautiful (Sarah Wilson, Macmillan)
Thursday, 2 February 2017
Sarah Wilson is a journalist, editor, TV presenter and the bestselling author of I Quit Sugar. In her new book, she explores the anxiety disorder that turned her life upside...
The Hope Fault (Tracy Farr, Fremantle Press)
Thursday, 2 February 2017
On a rainy weekend, Iris and her family—her ex-husband, his new wife, her son and her friend’s daughter—are packing up their coastal holiday home. The house has seen parties, homemade...
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