To The River (Vikki Wakefield, Text)
Tuesday, 30 January 2024
The Kelly family was always skirting trouble. When 17-year-old Sabine Kelly’s mum and sister die with seven other people in a mysterious caravan park fire, Sabine confesses to the crime...
Look Me in the Eye (Jane Godwin, Lothian)
Tuesday, 23 January 2024
Look Me in the Eye is the latest young adult novel by award-winning author Jane Godwin. The story centres around Bella, a 13-year-old girl who leads quite a wholesome, drama-free...
Circles of Life (Gregg Dreise, Puffin)
Tuesday, 23 January 2024
Circles of Life is a picture book in verse that shares the tradition, beauty and importance of Thank You Circles, or Gabayindah Guroos. These artworks are painted in layers to...
Beatrix Bakes: Another Slice (Natalie Paull, Hardie Grant)
Tuesday, 23 January 2024
Come a Saturday morning, the line for Beatrix Bakes, a cult North Melbourne café and bakery, would snake down the street. Its closure in 2022—a personal tragedy for this reviewer—even...
The Rewilding (Donna M Cameron, Transit Lounge)
Tuesday, 23 January 2024
Jagger Eckerman, the scion of a corrupt construction mogul and protagonist of Donna M Cameron’s second novel, blows his life up one morning by sending a fateful email whistleblowing the...
The Independent Pea (Maree Coote, Melbournestyle)
Tuesday, 23 January 2024
Maree Coote’s love of vegetables, indulged vibrantly in her 2023 picture book Letters for Lunch!, gets another airing in The Independent Pea. This time, it’s an invigorating story about the...
A Secretive Century: Monte Punshon’s Australia (Tessa Morris-Suzuki, MUP)
Tuesday, 23 January 2024
A Secretive Century by Tessa Morris-Suzuki is an illuminating biography that unveils the remarkable life of Monte Punshon, an Australian woman who lived from 1882 to 1989. From her conservative...
Break the Curse (Shower Land #1) (Nat Amoore, illus James Hart, Puffin)
Tuesday, 23 January 2024
The first in a new junior fiction series, Shower Land 1: Break the Curse is a fun, whimsical book that will appeal to kids who enjoy fantasy and humour plots....
Shining Like the Sun (Stephen Orr, Wakefield)
Tuesday, 23 January 2024
Stephen Orr's Shining Like the Sun is like an Australian version of A Man Called Ove, with the same qualities of grit and humanity that made the Swedish novel so...
What Happened to Nina? (Dervla McTiernan, HarperCollins)
Tuesday, 16 January 2024
Nina and Simon are teenage sweethearts, but cracks are starting to show in their relationship. After a stint of long distance, they decide to get away to Simon's parents’ new...
Saturday Is Pancake Day (Bernadette Green, illus Daniel Gray-Barnett, Scribble)
Tuesday, 16 January 2024
In the lively domestic chaos of Saturday Is Pancake Day—a story that might make you relieved it’s not your turn for the washing up (or that you’re not attending the...
Cool Water (Myfanwy Jones, Hachette)
Tuesday, 16 January 2024
Myfanwy Jones’s Cool Water is a cross-generational novel about the inheritance of toxic masculinity. When Frank Herbert returns to Tinaroo for his daughter’s wedding, he can’t stop thinking about his...
Thanks for Having Me (Emma Darragh, JOAN)
Tuesday, 16 January 2024
Emma Darragh’s debut novel, Thanks for Having Me, is an intergenerational familial story that offers a glimpse into the lives of three women: Mary Anne, Vivian and Evie. It’s a non-sequential...
The Great Housing Hijack (Cameron K Murray, A&U)
Tuesday, 16 January 2024
Instead of your typical dense economics book, The Great Housing Hijack: The hoaxes and myths keeping prices high for renters and buyers in Australia uses a compelling narrative with analogies,...
Outlaw Girls (Emily Gale & Nova Weetman, Text)
Tuesday, 16 January 2024
Emily Gale and Nova Weetman deliver again with Outlaw Girls, the Kelly country time-slip follow-up to their CBCA Notable Elsewhere Girls. In 1878, Kate Kelly secretly slips supplies to her...
A Room for Ryel (Emma Cameron, Wombat)
Tuesday, 16 January 2024
Within modern shifting family dynamics, Emma Cameron’s A Room for Ryel emerges as a heartwarming tale that adeptly explores the intricacies and joys of blending families. The book seamlessly transcends...
One Another (Gail Jones, Text)
Tuesday, 9 January 2024
Expect no less from Gail Jones’s tenth novel, One Another, than carefully crafted prose that will delight and assure you of an expert at work. With a languid sense of...
I Hope This Doesn’t Find You (Ann Liang, Penguin)
Tuesday, 9 January 2024
Ann Liang’s third young adult novel, I Hope This Doesn’t Find You, is a feel-good rom-com that uses all the well-worn tropes of the enemies-to-lovers subgenre. When people-pleaser school captain...
The Most Amazing Thing (Ian Hayward Robinson, illus Matt Shanks, A&U Children’s)
Tuesday, 9 January 2024
The Most Amazing Thing is a sweet story about Henry, who, one rainy day, is trying to figure out what the most amazing thing is, so he can draw it...
The Girl from Moscow (Julia Levitina, Pantera)
Tuesday, 9 January 2024
In Julia Levitina’s debut novel, The Girl from Moscow, Ella Ashkenazi, an aspiring actor on the verge of a breakthrough role, discovers she is pregnant. It’s a low-key beginning to...
To and Fro (Anton Clifford-Motopi, A&U Children’s)
Tuesday, 9 January 2024
To and Fro by debut author Anton Clifford-Motopi is a heartfelt and humorous exploration of the complexities of growing up mixed-race in Australia. This delightful offering for readers aged 8–12...
Like Fire-Hearted Suns (Melanie Joosten, Ultimo)
Tuesday, 9 January 2024
‘Deeds not words’ was the valiant cry of the suffragettes, but does the average reader know what those deeds entailed? This average reader did not. While a work of fiction,...
Some People Want to Shoot Me (Wayne Bergmann & Madelaine Dickie, Fremantle)
Tuesday, 9 January 2024
Some People Want to Shoot Me is the straight-talking biography of Wayne Bergmann, an Indigenous land rights advocate and native title lawyer who famously took on a multinational company and...
What They Told Me (Hayley Lawrence, Scholastic)
Tuesday, 12 December 2023
Fifteen-year-old Elliott Gillespie has always believed she and her family are the lucky ones. Their home by Crooked River has been in the Gillespie family for generations. Her best friend,...
Sloths Love Parties (Rory H Mather, illus Binny Talib, Affirm)
Tuesday, 12 December 2023
Have you ever wondered why sloths are so slow and sleepy? In Rory H Mather’s Sloths Love Parties, it’s not because of their low-energy diet but due to their high-energy...
The Concierge (Abby Corson, Ultimo)
Tuesday, 12 December 2023
Abby Corson’s debut crime thriller, The Concierge, offers readers a locked-room murder mystery in a lavish English country hotel, where the guests are pointing fingers, and the person who knows...
Beyond Booze (Sarah Rusbatch, Murdoch)
Tuesday, 12 December 2023
The term ‘sober curiosity’ has been around for a few years now, but Beyond Booze: How to create a life you love, alcohol-free offers something a bit more. Author Sarah...
Greater City Shadows (Laurie Steed, UWAP)
Tuesday, 12 December 2023
Laurie Steed’s third book and debut short story collection, Greater City Shadows, collates tales of grief, loss, loneliness, unrequited love, fractured relationships and—ultimately—hope. Suburban Perth is the setting for many an...
The Daredevil Princess and the Golden Unicorn (Belinda Murrell, illus Rebecca Crane, Puffin)
Tuesday, 12 December 2023
The Daredevil Princess and the Golden Unicorn is the first in kid-lit superstar Belinda Murrell’s latest series, with a second book (The Daredevil Princess and the Goblin King) to be...
Go Lightly (Brydie Lee-Kennedy, Bloomsbury)
Tuesday, 12 December 2023
Brydie Lee-Kennedy’s debut, Go Lightly, is an honest, hilarious and often painful exploration of taking risks in life and love. Full of wry humour, it dives into the complexities of...
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