The Build-up Season (Megan Jacobson, Penguin)
Wednesday, 31 May 2017
Megan Jacobson’s The Build-up Season is a confronting but compelling exploration of domestic violence and the legacies of abuse, set against the gathering storm clouds in the ‘build-up’ to Darwin’s...
Sparrow (Scot Gardner, A&U)
Wednesday, 31 May 2017
Scot Gardner’s latest YA novel is a story of survival in both the wilderness and the city. Leaping from an exploding boat into crocodile-infested waters, the boy who never speaks...
The Traitor and the Thief (Gareth Ward, Walker Books)
Wednesday, 31 May 2017
In a steampunk alternate England, the life of 14-year-old petty thief Sin changes when he is recruited to join a secret school for young spies tasked with preventing an alternate...
Gravity Well (Melanie Joosten, Scribe)
Thursday, 25 May 2017
Thirty years ago, American astronomer Carl Sagan described a photo of our planet as a blue dot: ‘That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone...
The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree (Shokoofeh Azar, Wild Dingo Press)
Thursday, 25 May 2017
A reimagining of the 1979 Islamic Revolution and its aftermath, Shokoofeh Azar’s The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree expertly traces the travails of a family of five during one of...
Wellmania: Misadventures in the Search for Wellness (Brigid Delaney, Nero)
Tuesday, 23 May 2017
Wellmania takes on the industrial wellness complex, a billion-dollar industry that mainstreams and monetises ancient traditions for affluent consumers. Feeling depleted from decades in the fast lane, journalist Brigid Delaney...
The Town (Shaun Prescott, Brow Books)
Monday, 22 May 2017
Shaun Prescott’s debut novel is a story of absences, holes and disappearings. An unnamed narrator arrives in an unnamed town in the central west of New South Wales. As he...
Sunlight and Seaweed: An Argument for How to Feed, Power and Clean Up the World (Tim Flannery, Text)
Monday, 22 May 2017
It is difficult to overstate the importance of this concise, convincingly argued view of our world’s prospects for its survival and improvement over the next 33 years (ie to 2050)....
It’s Alive!: Artificial Intelligence from the Logic Piano to Killer Robots (Toby Walsh, LTUP)
Monday, 22 May 2017
The human brain performs all its wondrous tasks on a mere 20 watts of power. By contrast, the world’s most sophisticated computer, IBM’s Watson, uses 80,000 watts. Will computers ever...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Elephant (Peter Carnavas, UQP)
Wednesday, 3 May 2017
The Elephant is the first junior-fiction novel from Peter Carnavas, who is well known for his gentle, heartfelt picture books. Olive lives with her Grandad, her Dad, and—even if no-one...
The Fall (Tristan Bancks, Random House)
Wednesday, 3 May 2017
Following an operation to ease his scoliosis, 12-year-old Sam Garner secures the chance to stay with his father Harry (never ‘Dad’) in the city, to better understand and get to...
My Lovely Frankie (Judith Clarke, A&U)
Wednesday, 3 May 2017
Tom has never forgotten his friend Frankie—even though he hasn’t seen him for over half a century. In 1950, when Tom is just 16, he thinks he feels the hand...
Australia Day (Melanie Cheng, Text)
Thursday, 27 April 2017
The title story of Melanie Cheng’s debut short fiction collection Australia Day is about a Chinese medical student visiting the rural farm of an Australian friend who he hopes will...
Mischka’s War: A European Odyssey of the 1940s (Sheila Fitzpatrick, MUP)
Thursday, 27 April 2017
Professor Sheila Fitzpatrick met photonuclear physicist Mischka Danos in 1989. They married and spent the next 10 years together until Mischka’s death. But this biography is not about those years....
Wimmera (Mark Brandi, Hachette)
Thursday, 27 April 2017
Set in small-town Australia in the 1980s, Wimmera is the story of two boyhood friends, Fab and Ben, presented in three parts. Part one is told in schoolboy Ben’s voice:...
Psynode (Marlee Jane Ward, Seizure)
Wednesday, 5 April 2017
Marlee Jane Ward impressed with her YA debut Welcome to Orphancorp in 2015, winning Seizure’s Viva La Novella Prize as well as the YA category of the Victorian Premier’s Literary...
Living on Hope Street (Demet Divaroren, A&U)
Wednesday, 5 April 2017
Demet Divaroren’s YA novel Living on Hope St does not shirk from tackling the big issues that concern society today. Refugees, domestic abuse, racism, grief and bullying all feature in...
Do Not Lick This Book (Idan Ben-Barak, illus by Julian Frost, A&U)
Wednesday, 5 April 2017
What a fun, beautifully designed and repulsive book! Its premise is humble: let’s meet some microbes. It sits between educational text and narrative picture book, following Min the microbe on...
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