Tuesday, 6 June 2023
Chemutai Glasheen delivers a powerful and vibrant collection of short stories in I Am the Mau & Other Stories. Inspired by her upbringing in Africa, each brilliant tale is infused...

Tuesday, 6 June 2023
As a pet rescue shelter owner, Sera often finds herself in messy situations. However, she didn’t expect her potentially messiest situation to start with a ‘drop-dead, stop-you-in-your-tracks, gorgeous’ actor standing...

Tuesday, 6 June 2023
Ballet Confidential is not a no-holds-barred expose but rather a joyfully led and personal guide into the world of ballet. David McAllister is the former artistic director of the Australian...

Tuesday, 6 June 2023
There is a particular aesthetic challenge to nonfiction picture books about artists: they must do more than simply emulate the artist’s style, yet they risk alienating readers if the illustrations...

Tuesday, 6 June 2023
Among the breathtaking and perilous wilds of Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf, a dozen men prepare to be the first to reach the South Pole. When tragedy strikes the men on...

Tuesday, 6 June 2023
This vibrantly illustrated story by the team that brought us If I was Prime Minister is about weighing up the various options when decision making–a process that can be very...

Tuesday, 30 May 2023
Nean McKenzie is the author of two previous middle-grade novels. Her latest, Timefire, interweaves a story about bushfires in Australia with supernatural and time-travel elements. Gilbert Black is drawn to...

Tuesday, 30 May 2023
In Amy Lovat’s Mistakes and Other Lovers, El O’Reilly finds herself involved in a circle of Christian friends and their complex, tense social dynamics as she navigates the aftermath of...

Tuesday, 23 May 2023
Kirsty Jagger’s debut novel Roseghetto is a raw coming-of-age story set in 1990s suburban Sydney. We follow the protagonist Shayla through childhood and adolescence and hold her hand through sexual...

Tuesday, 23 May 2023
Life doesn’t feel easy for Doris Kozlowski. Her family is Polish, and they’re not like almost all the other families nearby. Her babcia makes all kinds of foods that smell...

Tuesday, 16 May 2023
Captain Thunderbolt’s Recital tells the unlikely but true story of Fred Ward, the ‘gentleman bushranger’ known as Captain Thunderbolt in the 1860s. Writer Jane Jolly and illustrator Liz Duthie bring...

Tuesday, 16 May 2023
Alba, Stanley and Drew are giants, sent out into space for reasons unknown to them, in a spaceship called Audition. As they travel through the universe their bodies continue to...

Tuesday, 16 May 2023
Aficionados of South African-Australian Nobel and Booker Prize-winning author J M Coetzee will be delighted with his new short fiction collection, The Pole & Other Stories. It explores philosophy and...