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Three Boys Gone (Mark Smith, Macmillan) 

Tuesday, 26 November 2024
Award-winning writer Mark Smith is a familiar name on the young adult shelves, with his acclaimed Winter trilogy finding its way onto school lists nationwide. Venturing into fiction for adult...

‘Orbital’ tops Heatseekers after Booker win 

Cover of Orbital Friday, 22 November 2024
Top 10 bestsellers RecipeTin Eats: Tonight (Nagi Maehashi, Macmillan) The Voice Inside (John Farnham & Poppy Stockell, Hachette) In Too Deep (Lee Child & Andrew Child, Bantam) Hot Mess (Diary...

Books in the media this weekend, 23–24 November 

Friday, 22 November 2024
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend.  National The Saturday Paper The Best Australian Science Writing 2024 (ed by Jackson Ryan &...

The Pool (Hannah Tunnicliffe, Ultimo) 

Tuesday, 19 November 2024
In Hannah Tunnicliffe’s latest novel, The Pool, a motley group of southside Melburnians meets for a summer party. The young families are connected through work and children, but they’re not really...

That Island Feeling (Karina May, Macmillan) 

Tuesday, 19 November 2024
Set on a sleepy, scenic Australian island and featuring oysters, wine and flirty banter, That Island Feeling is the summer romance book for 2025. The novel follows Andie and her...

Panic (Catherine Jinks, Text) 

Tuesday, 19 November 2024
Modern society is well versed in the evils of social media. From cyberbullying and trolling to revenge porn and deep fakes, there is no end to the new and horrifying...

PRH celebrates Bluey milestone 

Friday, 15 November 2024
Celebrating the five-year anniversary of Bluey books this week, Penguin Random House announced it has reached the sales milestone of over eight million Bluey books sold in Australia. ‘Impressively, there...

Books in the media this weekend, 16–17 November 

Friday, 15 November 2024
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend.  National The Saturday Paper The Proof of My Innocence (Jonathan Coe, Viking) Shapeshifting (ed by...

Cruel Is the Light (Sophie Clark, Penguin) 

Tuesday, 12 November 2024
In a world both familiar to and hauntingly different from our own, the Vatican Empire has waged a centuries-long war with demons across Europe. After a series of unprecedented attacks...

Unfinished Business (Shankari Chandran, Ultimo) 

Tuesday, 12 November 2024
The first in Miles Franklin–winning author Shankari Chandran’s Ellie Harper political thriller series, Unfinished Business mirrors the themes of the author’s past books (Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens, Safe Haven):...

‘Bake with Brooki’ debuts at number one 

Friday, 8 November 2024
Top 10 bestsellers Bake with Brooki (Brooke Bellamy, Penguin) RecipeTin Eats: Tonight (Nagi Maehashi, Macmillan) The Voice Inside (John Farnham & Poppy Stockell, Hachette) In Too Deep (Lee Child &...

Books in the media this weekend, 9–10 November 

Friday, 8 November 2024
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper The Rise of the Matildas (Fiona Crawford, MUP) Theory & Practice...

Gunnawah (Ronni Salt, Hachette) 

Tuesday, 5 November 2024
In 1974, in the fictional rural Riverina town of Gunnawah, population 989, everyone knows everyone’s business … or so they think. After an unfortunate event the year before, 19-year-old Adelaide...

The Wedding Party (Rebecca Heath, Head of Zeus) 

Tuesday, 5 November 2024
In her latest thriller, The Wedding Party, Rebecca Heath (The Summer Party, The Dinner Party) masterfully tells the gripping story of three families connected by a tragic incident that occurred...

The Spirit Circle (Tara Calaby, Text) 

Tuesday, 5 November 2024
Tara Calaby’s The Spirit Circle is a thrilling sapphic historical fiction set in 19th-century Victoria, exploring the passage of loss and grief and the importance of platonic and romantic bonds....

‘Too Easy’ tops Heatseekers chart 

Friday, 1 November 2024
Top 10 bestsellers RecipeTin Eats: Tonight (Nagi Maehashi, Macmillan) In Too Deep (Jack Reacher #29) (Lee Child & Andrew Child, Bantam) Hot Mess (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #19) (Jeff...

Books in the media this weekend, 2–3 November 

Friday, 1 November 2024
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend.  National The Saturday Paper Australian Gospel (Lech Blaine, Black Inc.) Gliff (Ali Smith, Hamish Hamilton) Working...

One Dark Night (Hannah Richell, S&S) 

Tuesday, 29 October 2024
One Dark Night is Hannah Richell’s sixth novel. Like its predecessor, The Search Party, the story is a gripping, tangled web of mystery and intrigue from the opening paragraph to...

 

 

 

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