Storm Whale (Sarah Brennan, illus by Jane Tanner, A&U)
Wednesday, 5 April 2017
Jane Tanner’s rich, textured, gorgeous illustrations work in parallel with Sarah Brennan’s equally complex and affecting language in this verse-narrative of three young girls who find a beached whale. Their...
Understory: A Life with Trees (Inga Simpson, Hachette)
Thursday, 30 March 2017
Many people dream about making a ‘tree change’. When Inga Simpson and her partner fell in love with 10 acres of bush in the Sunshine Coast hinterland, they succumbed to...
Boy (Phil Cummings, illus by Shane Devries, Scholastic)
Tuesday, 14 March 2017
Veteran children’s author Phil Cummings has produced over 60 books for young readers so he knows how to tell a simple story. The nameless titular character lives in a small...
The Wayward Witch and the Feelings Monster: Polly and Buster Book One (Sally Rippin, HGE)
Tuesday, 14 March 2017
Polly is an unusual witch—she can’t read spells because the letters get jumbled and so she makes mistakes. Buster is an unusual monster—emotions make him shrink and swell. They are...
Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology (ed by Danielle Binks, HarperCollins)
Tuesday, 14 March 2017
Begin, End, Begin traverses the rough terrain of adolescence, pausing to wonder at some of the many beginnings and endings that young adults will encounter during their high-school years. This...
Heads and Tails (John Canty, Berbay Publishing)
Tuesday, 14 March 2017
Heads and Tails is an educational book for small children either at home or at school, incorporating a game into the narrative to make the animal information fun rather than...
Adult Fantasy (Briohny Doyle, Scribe)
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
Is ‘adulthood’ still achieved by ticking off a series of milestones, like marriage, mortgages, careers and babies? How might those milestones—and our ability to tick them off—have changed since the...
Woman of Substances: A Journey into Addiction and Treatment (Jenny Valentish, Black Inc.)
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
‘Women,’ writes Jenny Valentish, ‘drink and take drugs because it’s fun. They do it to be bulletproof. To be more intimate, or more intimidating.’ For most, this use is manageable....
The Hot Guy (Mel Campbell & Anthony Morris, Echo)
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
When sports publicist Cate is dumped by her boyfriend for inappropriate puns about polo and social climbing, her friends introduce her to The Hot Guy—refuge of dumped women everywhere and...
Rubik (Elizabeth Tan, Brio)
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
In Elizabeth Tan’s debut novel-in-stories, the untimely death of young Perth woman Elena Rubik tears a hole in the fabric of reality, and the reader is thrown into a sprawling...
The Other Mother (Kelly Chandler, Affirm)
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
When Kelly met Pete, it was easy, straightforward and just what she’d been looking for. Negotiating where she fitted into his life with two kids under six, however, would prove...
Stop Fixing Women: Why Building Fairer Workplaces is Everybody’s Business (Catherine Fox, NewSouth)
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
Catherine Fox’s new book explores the longstanding issue of gender imbalance in the workplace, interrogating ingrained myths and assumptions about why this problem persists. She looks at what she terms...
The Beast of Hushing Wood (Gabrielle Wang, Puffin)
Monday, 27 February 2017
Ziggy Truegood isn’t looking forward to turning 12, and with a very good reason: every night for the past month she has dreamt she will drown on her birthday. With...
The Blue Cat (Ursula Dubosarsky, A&U)
Monday, 27 February 2017
Slow, dreamlike and meandering, The Blue Cat is a glimpse into life in wartime Australia. Set in Sydney in 1942, it follows Columba in her adventures with her force-of-nature best...
Mammoth Mistake: Starring Olive Black Book One (Alex Miles, illus by Maude Guesne, Affirm Press)
Monday, 27 February 2017
Mammoth Mistake is the first book in a new series by author Alex Miles, who, among other things, has written for the hugely successful ‘Zac Power’ series. Olive Black is...
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...
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 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...
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...
Ida (Alison Evans, Echo Publishing)
Tuesday, 10 January 2017
Ida Wagner can travel backwards in time, but is clueless about how to move forwards with her life. She thinks her biggest problem is figuring out what to do now...
Ballad for a Mad Girl (Vikki Wakefield, Text)
Tuesday, 11 October 2016
Grace is the prankster in her group of friends, the odd one of the odd ones out. She’s always been known for taking a joke further, and for being the...
The Turnkey (Allison Rushby, Walker Books)
Tuesday, 11 October 2016
Witnessing the turbulence and devastation of World War II during the London Blitz would prove challenging for any 12-year-old girl, but Flossie Birdwhistle is no ordinary girl—she is a ghost....
Mr Romanov’s Garden in the Sky (Robert Newton, Puffin)
Tuesday, 11 October 2016
Thirteen-year-old Lexie lives in a grey housing commission flat in Melbourne and dreams of starting a new life on the Sunshine Coast. She’s struggling to deal with her junkie mum,...
No Way But This: In Search of Paul Robeson (Jeff Sparrow, Scribe)
Tuesday, 11 October 2016
Paul Robeson (1898-1976) was an African-American singer, actor and political activist. His father was a slave, yet Robeson was able to carve out an acting and music career despite facing...
Somewhere Else (Gus Gordon, Viking)
Monday, 11 July 2016
White duck George Laurent doesn’t want to fly anywhere. The beauty of the Arctic tundra, the Caribbean and Paris means nothing to him, despite the urging of his friends. He’d...
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...
The Invisible War: A Tale on Two Scales (Ailsa Wild & Jeremy Barr, illus by Ben Hutchings, Scale Free Network)
Tuesday, 21 June 2016
How much history and science can a reader learn from a graphic novel? This new art-science offering from publisher Scale Free Network suggests quite a lot! The Invisible War is...
The Bone Sparrow (Zana Fraillon, Lothian)
Thursday, 2 June 2016
In a story that is in some ways reminiscent of John Boyne’s The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, author Zana Fraillon asks readers to imagine a ‘Someday’ better than today. It...
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