Key change: Holly Throsby on ‘Goodwood’
Friday, 8 July 2016
Set around the disappearance of two people in the fictional small town of Goodwood, musician Holly Throsby’s debut novel ‘hits all the right notes’, writes reviewer Carody Culver. She spoke...
Down the garden path: Jessica Miller on ‘Elizabeth and Zenobia’
Thursday, 7 July 2016
Reviewer Dani Solomon calls Jessica Miller’s debut middle-grade adventure story Elizabeth and Zenobia (Text, September), about the timid Elizabeth and the fearless Zenobia, ‘the perfect book for 12-year-old readers (and...
Small publisher spotlight: Lacuna Publishing
Wednesday, 6 July 2016
Launched in 2012, Sydney-based Lacuna Publishing publishes fiction, poetry and nonfiction that ‘challenges the status quo, introduces new ideas, shares untold stories, or presents a fresh perspective’. Founder Linda Nix...
Hello, Sydney! (Megan McKean, Thames & Hudson)
Tuesday, 5 July 2016
Fifteen of Sydney’s favourite locations, for tourists and residents alike, supply the backdrop for this spot-and-find adventure by designer Megan McKean. All the icons are featured—the Sydney Opera House, the...
The Little Bad Wolf (Sam Bowring, illus by Lachlan Creagh, Lothian)
Tuesday, 5 July 2016
The big bad wolf (now retired) has a bit of nasty reputation but his grandson is quite mischievous too: ‘Trouble was his favourite thing to make.’ Set in a fairyland...
Mechanica: A Beginner’s Field Guide (Lance Balchin, The Five Mile Press)
Tuesday, 5 July 2016
Mechanica: A Beginner’s Field Guide is a beautiful picture book for older children that combines steampunk style with a futuristic, cautionary tale. Author and illustrator Lance Balchin has created a...
One Photo (Ross Watkins, illus by Liz Anelli, Viking)
Tuesday, 5 July 2016
In One Photo, author Ross Watkins and illustrator Liz Anelli gently sketch a family affected by Alzheimer’s, though the disease is never mentioned in the narrative; rather, the young protagonist...
The Pied Piper (Ayesha L Rubio, The Five Mile Press)
Tuesday, 5 July 2016
The timeless story of The Pied Piper of Hamelin is given a whole new look in this lively new treatment. The story has been adapted for modern readers and flows...
The Grabbem Getaway: Axel and BEAST Book One (Adrian C Bott, illus by Andy Isaac, Hardie Grant Egmont)
Tuesday, 5 July 2016
When a shape-shifting robot breaks into his house, 12-year-old Axel is plucked from his computer screen into a high-stakes scenario to rival any of his beloved games. Thrust into a...
Elizabeth and Zenobia (Jessica Miller, Text)
Tuesday, 5 July 2016
Painfully quiet Elizabeth and her delightfully devious and not-quite-imaginary friend Zenobia move into Witheringe House, the old manor where Elizabeth’s father spent his childhood. It is also where Elizabeth’s aunt...
Skyfire: The Seven Signs Book One (Michael Adams, Scholastic)
Tuesday, 5 July 2016
In the near future, seven teens from around the world have been selected as the winners of the DARE Awards by internet trillionaire Felix Scott. Their skills and achievements have...
Two Troll Tales from Norway (Margrete Lamond, illus by Ingrid Kallick, Christmas Press)
Tuesday, 5 July 2016
Margrete Lamond’s enchanting retelling of The Two Troll Tales from Norway is sure to attract educators and booksellers around the country. The first of the pair of folk tales in...
Words in Deep Blue (Cath Crowley, Pan)
Tuesday, 5 July 2016
Since her brother Cal drowned 10 months ago, Rachel has failed Year 12, lost all her friends and watched her mother become consumed by grief. Desperate to get away, she...
Shelf help: Cath Crowley on ‘Words in Deep Blue’
Tuesday, 5 July 2016
A love story set in a second-hand bookshop, Cath Crowley’s latest YA novel Words in Deep Blue is ‘a beautiful examination of grief, love and the power of words’. Reviewer...
On tour: Rainbow Rowell
Tuesday, 5 July 2016
Rainbow Rowell’s YA novels include Eleanor and Park (Orion), Fangirl and Carry On (both Macmillan). She is travelling to the Melbourne Writers Festival in August What would you put on...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 4 July 2016
This week’s bestsellers includes a number of film tie-ins and film-related titles moving up the charts. Top of the overall bestsellers for the fourth straight week is the film tie-in...
Valdur the Viking and the Ghostly Goths (Craig Cormick, Ford Street)
Friday, 1 July 2016
Valdur the Viking is having a pretty bad day. First, his pet dog Ragna—who is maybe a dragon—eats the last pickle. Then his father and most of their ship’s crew...
The Book that Made Me (ed by Judith Ridge, Walker Books)
Friday, 1 July 2016
The Book that Made Me is a collection of mini-essays by 32 authors, many of them children’s and YA authors and most Australian or New Zealanders. The authors were asked...
Character building: Melina Marchetta on ‘Tell the Truth, Shame the Devil’
Thursday, 30 June 2016
Melina Marchetta’s Tell the Truth, Shame the Devil (Viking, September) is ‘an electrifying contemporary detective thriller’ that ‘explores Europe’s simmering anti-Muslim sentiments’ in the aftermath of a bus bomb, writes...
On tour: Meg Rosoff
Thursday, 30 June 2016
YA author Meg Rosoff will be appearing at Melbourne and Brisbane writers’ festivals in August and September to discuss her first novel for adults, Jonathan Unleashed (Bloomsbury) What would you...
Obsessive impulsive: Maurilia Meehan on ‘5 Ways to be Famous Now’
Thursday, 30 June 2016
Set on a cruise ship headed for Antarctica, Maurilia Meehan’s satirical novel 5 Ways to be Famous Now (Transit Lounge, September) is a ‘delightfully wicked romp with a razor-sharp edge’,...
5 Ways to be Famous Now (Maurilia Meehan, Transit Lounge)
Wednesday, 29 June 2016
The confines of a cruise ship headed for the most remote part of Antarctica is the perfect setting for jealous temperaments to thrive and plots of revenge to unfold in...
Le Chateau (Sarah Ridout, Echo Publishing)
Wednesday, 29 June 2016
In Le Chateau, Charlotte de Chastenet awakens from a coma with no memory of her husband Henri, her daughter Ada, her overbearing mother-in-law The Madame, or her luscious life in...
A Chinese Affair (Isabelle Li, Margaret River Press)
Wednesday, 29 June 2016
Isabelle Li’s debut collection A Chinese Affair is a strange beast—a genre mashup that showcases the Chinese-Australian experience by mixing short story and memoir. Li makes the unusual decision to...
The Easy Way Out (Steven Amsterdam, Hachette)
Wednesday, 29 June 2016
Steven Amsterdam’s previous books Things We Didn’t See Coming and What the Family Needed are heavy with apocalyptic vision and metaphor, so his latest novel will immediately strike his fans...
The Historian’s Daughter (Rashida Murphy, UWA Publishing)
Wednesday, 29 June 2016
The Historian’s Daughter is a family story with a dark secret in its underbelly, cloaked by an otherworldly charm, where the traditional monikers of mum and dad are replaced with...
The Hate Race (Maxine Beneba Clarke, Hachette)
Wednesday, 29 June 2016
Maxine Beneba Clarke’s storytelling in The Hate Race has a heft to it that is at once steeped in history, and also exquisitely and playfully modern; it is lyrical, sincere...
The Love of a Bad Man (Laura Elizabeth Woollett, Scribe)
Wednesday, 29 June 2016
The Love of a Bad Man offers what feels like a genuinely fresh reading experience: a short-fiction collection that marries true crime with literary fiction. In each discrete story, Melbourne-based...
The Near and the Far (ed by David Carlin & Francesca Rendle-Short, Scribe)
Wednesday, 29 June 2016
Born out of WrICE—a program of reciprocal residencies focussed on writing from the Asia-Pacific—The Near and the Far interlaces the work of familiar Australian writers with that of emerging and...
Only Daughter (Anna Snoekstra, Harlequin)
Wednesday, 29 June 2016
This slow-burning psychological thriller will appeal to anyone devouring the subgenre dubbed ‘domestic noir’. While it’s a quicker, lighter read than Gone Girl, Only Daughter poses a mystery that is...
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