Dance, Bilby, Dance (Tricia Oktober, Ford Street)
Thursday, 4 February 2016
Dance, Bilby, Dance by author-illustrator and environmentalist Tricia Oktober is an energetic tale for pre-schoolers about a resourceful bilby who is determined to find his groove. At first a stumbling...
William Bligh: A Stormy Story of Tempestuous Times (Michael Sedunary, illus by Bern Emmerichs, Berbay)
Thursday, 4 February 2016
Both author and illustrator have brought the tempestuous story of William Bligh to life in this superb history book, which informs, intrigues and involves the reader by asking questions and...
Bro (Helen Chebatte, Hardie Grant Egmont)
Thursday, 4 February 2016
Romeo Makhlouf knows he should be playing by the rules but the problem is the rules of being a bro aren’t the same as the rules laid down by his...
The Way We Roll (Scot Gardner, A&U)
Thursday, 4 February 2016
Will has a new job collecting trolleys at a dingy suburban shopping centre. His work partner, rough, tattooed Westie Julian, realises something is up: Will says he lives in a...
The Yearbook Committee (Sarah Ayoub, HarperCollins)
Thursday, 4 February 2016
Five very different Year 12 students find themselves on the Yearbook Committee for their prestigious private school. Some are loners and some are popular, but all are facing their own...
Yellow (Megan Jacobson, Penguin)
Thursday, 4 February 2016
Yellow is a surprising and engaging story from debut author Megan Jacobsen. Fourteen-year-old Kirra has a rocky home life: her father has left the family for another woman and her...
Something Wonderful (Raewyn Caisley & Karen Blair, Viking)
Thursday, 4 February 2016
Raewyn Caisley’s first book with illustrator Karen Blair, Hello from Nowhere, took readers to the Australian Nullarbor to reveal the benefits of living in the middle of a desert. In...
Magrit (Lee Battersby, Walker Books)
Thursday, 4 February 2016
Magrit is nearly 10 and lives in an abandoned cemetery with her skeletal mentor Master Puppet. One day her simple life is disrupted forever by the arrival of a tiny...
On tour: Katherine Rundell
Thursday, 4 February 2016
Katherine Rundell is the author of children’s books The Wolf Wilder (Bloomsbury) and Rooftoppers (Faber). She will be appearing at the Perth Writers Festival in February. What would you put...
Spiral of absurdity: Lee Battersby on ‘Magrit’
Thursday, 4 February 2016
Lee Battersby’s first book for children is set in an abandoned cemetery and has ‘echoes of Neil Gaiman’s Coraline and The Graveyard Book’. Reviewer Tehani Wessely spoke to the author....
Squishy Taylor and the Bonus Sisters: Squishy Taylor Book One (Ailsa Wild, illus by Ben Wood, Hardie Grant Egmont)
Tuesday, 2 February 2016
The first book in this new series by Ailsa Wood throws you straight into the action, when Squishy (real name Sita) discovers a boy hiding out in the carpark of...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 1 February 2016
The Dressmaker film tie-in (Rosalie Ham, Duffy & Snellgrove) has climbed to the top of the overall bestsellers chart this week for the first time, edging out Old School: Diary...
Stepping up: Catriona Menzies-Pike on ‘The Long Run’
Wednesday, 27 January 2016
Catriona Menzies-Pike reveals some surprising facts about the history of women and running in her ‘personal and cultural’ memoir The Long Run. She spoke to reviewer Andrea Hanke. What inspired...
Going the distance: Josephine Rowe on ‘A Loving, Faithful Animal’
Wednesday, 27 January 2016
Josephine Rowe’s debut novel A Loving, Faithful Animal (UQP) explores the Vietnam War’s impact on a country Victorian family. It ‘distils the small incidents of ordinary life into moments of resonance and...
Waiting (Philip Salom, Puncher & Wattmann)
Wednesday, 27 January 2016
Award-winning poet Philip Salom’s third novel, set in inner-city Melbourne, is an absurdist fiction following the haphazard lives of oddball couple Big and Little. Big is a large, Rabelaisian, somewhat...
Bright spark: Alison Whittaker on ‘Lemons in the Chicken Wire’
Wednesday, 27 January 2016
Alison Whittaker received a black&write! Indigenous Writing Fellowship for her debut poetry collection Lemons in the Chicken Wire. Reviewer Hilary Simmons says it ‘introduces her as a force to be...
Whisperings in the Blood (Shelley Davidow, UQP)
Wednesday, 27 January 2016
Shelley Davidow’s family memoir Whisperings in the Blood is a book about destiny and the way lives are shaped by inheritances passed down by previous generations. A haunting and beautiful...
Talking to My Country (Stan Grant, HarperCollins)
Wednesday, 27 January 2016
The politics of Aboriginal identity cut to the bone of veteran journalist Stan Grant’s hybrid memoir/social commentary Talking to My Country. Through sharing the stories of his ancestors, Grant shows...
Talking Baby: How to Help Your Child Discover Language (Margaret Maclagan & Anne Buckley, Finch)
Wednesday, 27 January 2016
Language development in children is a fascinating process, as any parent or carer will attest. In Talking Baby, experts Anne Buckley and Margaret MacLagan cover the years from birth to...
Ink in Her Veins: The Troubled life of Aileen Palmer (Sylvia Martin, UWA Publishing)
Wednesday, 27 January 2016
Aileen Palmer was the first child of Australian writers Vance and Nettie Palmer, born in London in 1915. The new family moved back to Australia, where Vance and Nettie were...
Enemy (Ruth Clare, Viking)
Wednesday, 27 January 2016
Domestic abuse and PTSD in returning soldiers are two issues the Australian media is only starting to raise awareness about, especially after high-profile campaigners Rosie Batty (A Mother’s Story) and...
The Long Run (Catriona Menzies-Pike, Affirm Press)
Wednesday, 27 January 2016
While distance running has become popular with women today, incredibly, women didn’t run the Olympic marathon till 1984 and were barred from entering the Boston Marathon until 1972. Catriona Menzies-Pike...
Lemons in the Chicken Wire (Alison Whittaker, Magabala)
Wednesday, 27 January 2016
Alison Whittaker is a Gomeroi woman from Gunnedah, who was awarded a black&write! Indigenous Writing Fellowship in 2015. This debut collection of poetry introduces her as a force to be...
Sing Fox to Me (Sarah Kanake, Affirm Press)
Wednesday, 27 January 2016
In her debut novel, Sarah Kanake deals in so many Gothic tropes—ghosts, implied incest, a stark natural landscape and the legacy of an earlier generation’s follies—that an alternative title for...
The Midnight Watch (David Dyer, Hamish Hamilton)
Wednesday, 27 January 2016
On the night the Titanic sank, another ship, the Californian, saw her distress flares but did not respond. Her captain, Stanley Lord, denied that he was informed, testimony contradicted in...
A Loving, Faithful Animal (Josephine Rowe, UQP)
Wednesday, 27 January 2016
Josephine Rowe’s first novel follows her acclaimed story collections How a Moth Becomes a Boat and Tarcutta Wake. Like her stories, A Loving, Faithful Animal distils the small incidents of...
The Light on the Water (Olga Lorenzo, A&U)
Wednesday, 27 January 2016
Recently divorced Anne Forster heads to Wilson’s Promontory on an overnight bushwalk with her six-year-old autistic daughter Aida and returns home alone. Although no body is found, Anne is charged...
Ghost Girls (Cath Ferla, Echo)
Wednesday, 27 January 2016
Ghost Girls is a promising debut that defies easy categorisation. Set in the sometimes sketchy world of adult English-language colleges in inner Sydney—a scene the author clearly knows very well—it...
Hold (Kirsten Tranter, Fourth Estate)
Wednesday, 27 January 2016
Hold is Kirsten Tranter’s third novel and like her second, A Common Loss, it deals with the grief of unexpectedly losing a loved one and the strange places that grief...
The High Places (Fiona McFarlane, Hamish Hamilton)
Wednesday, 27 January 2016
After receiving international accolades for her Miles Franklin-shortlisted debut novel The Night Guest, Fiona McFarlane follows up with a short-story collection laden with wry wit and a deceptive simplicity. The...
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