The Vexatious Haunting of Lily Griffin (Paula Hayes, illus by Katy Jiang, Fremantle Press)
Tuesday, 10 May 2022
Eleven-year-old Lily Griffin is precocious but lonely—bullied by her brother and benignly neglected by the rest of her unusual family. Lily’s life changes dramatically when she discovers a girl trapped...
Jack’s Jumper (Sara Acton, Walker)
Tuesday, 10 May 2022
Jack’s jumper is far too big for him (it once belonged to his beloved big brother Paul, who has grown up and is rarely home anymore) but that’s half the...
The Chronic Pain Couple (Karra Eloff, Exisle)
Tuesday, 10 May 2022
Karra Eloff met her forever partner while she was struck with chronic pain. Since that time Eloff, a health professional, founded the Chronic Pain Couple, an organisation that delivers practical...
Blue Hour (Sarah Schmidt, Hachette)
Tuesday, 3 May 2022
Sarah Schmidt’s second novel, following her award-winning debut See What I Have Done, is an intensely absorbing emotional journey through motherhood and trauma set against the turbulent 20th century. In...
The Angry Women’s Choir (Meg Bignell, Michael Joseph)
Tuesday, 3 May 2022
When going through tough times in life you often turn to any solace you can find, sometimes discovering it in the unlikeliest of places. For Freycinet Barnes that solace just...
Holy Woman (Louise Omer, Scribe)
Tuesday, 3 May 2022
For Louise Omer, leaving a problematic marriage became leaving a faith. For her, the two went hand-in-hand, one a symbol of the other: the wife is subject to the husband,...
Tarni’s Chance (Paul Collins, illus by Jules Ober, Ford St)
Tuesday, 3 May 2022
In Tarni’s Chance, the world of Paul Collins and Jules Ober’s young protagonist is grey with sadness as her parents argue, and her inner mood is reflected in the monochromatic...
The Snow Laundry (Mette Jakobsen, HarperCollins)
Tuesday, 3 May 2022
Ally, her boyfriend Bon, and hundreds of other homeless young people live together in a former hotel converted into a state-run laundry and kitchen. The new home is courtesy of...
Old Fellow (Christopher Cheng, illus by Liz Anelli, Walker)
Wednesday, 27 April 2022
Old Fellow, written by Christopher Cheng and illustrated by Liz Anelli, is a warm, simple and engaging story of an old man and his old dog. Which one of the...
My Spare Heart (Jared Thomas, A&U)
Wednesday, 27 April 2022
There’s a lot to unpack in this YA novel, which covers issues including alcoholism, climate change, divorce and racism. At the centre of it all is 17-year-old Phoebe. She is...
Forty Nights (Pirooz Jafari, Ultimo)
Wednesday, 27 April 2022
Forty Nights is the literary debut of photographer turned lawyer and writer Pirooz Jafari. The novel weaves together three separate timelines, moving between 1360s Sweden, 1980s Iran and present-day Australia—with...
Swimming Home (Judy Cotton, Black Inc.)
Wednesday, 27 April 2022
Judy Cotton is an internationally celebrated visual artist who has work in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Gallery of Australia. Her father, Sir Robert...
WAKE (Shelley Burr, Hachette)
Wednesday, 27 April 2022
The question of what really happened to Evie McCreery has occupied amateur sleuths in online chat forums for years. But for Mina McCreery, ever since her twin sister was taken...
The Eulogy (Jackie Bailey, Hardie Grant)
Wednesday, 20 April 2022
The Eulogy by Jackie Bailey is at once sprawling and intimate: it’s a novel of race, disability, trauma, poverty, abuse and maternal rage that takes place over the course of...
Hip Hop & Hymns (Mawunyo Gbogbo, Penguin)
Wednesday, 20 April 2022
Hip Hop & Hymns is a beautiful and heart-wrenching memoir by Mawunyo Gbogbo, music and pop culture reporter for the ABC. Gbogbo begins her story in Ghana, where her parents...
The Museum of Broken Things (Lauren Draper, Text)
Wednesday, 20 April 2022
The concise opening of Lauren Draper’s debut YA novel immediately had me hooked: a new town, a mysterious statue and a curse all make for intriguing storylines. In The Museum...
An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life (Paul Dalla Rosa, A&U)
Wednesday, 20 April 2022
The fiction of Melbourne-based Paul Dalla Rosa has been published in the Paris Review, Granta, McSweeney's and Meanjin. His debut book, An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life, contains 10 short...
What We All Saw (Mike Lucas, Puffin)
Wednesday, 20 April 2022
In a small English country town in the 1970s, four friends make their way to the local quarry, a place where stories of witches and curses are born. Hag’s Drop,...
Our Members Be Unlimited (Sam Wallman, Scribe)
Tuesday, 12 April 2022
Unionism is about more than your rights at work. It is something greater even than a form of politics at the point of production: union struggle is composed of those...
Daughters of Durga: Dowries, gender violence and family in Australia (Manjula Datta O’Connor, MUP)
Tuesday, 12 April 2022
With Daughters of Durga, author, psychiatrist and campaigner Manjula Datta O'Connor has written an impassioned and empathetic treatise on the abuses of a patriarchal system. It may surprise readers to...
Horse (Geraldine Brooks, Hachette)
Tuesday, 12 April 2022
Four decades after covering horse racing as a cadet reporter for the Sydney Morning Herald, award-winning novelist Geraldine Brooks has returned to the track. Her latest book is based on...
A Feather on a Wing (Maria Speyer, UQP)
Tuesday, 12 April 2022
The darkness of night is a common fear for many children trying to get to sleep after lights-out. The dark can make you feel alone and separated from everyone, even...
When Only One (Meg Gatland-Veness, Pantera)
Tuesday, 12 April 2022
Everything changes when Sam’s one-time best friend Emily appears outside his window for the first time in five years. He knows why she’s back and it isn’t good. The story...
The Comedienne’s Guide To Pride (Hayli Thomson, HarperCollins)
Tuesday, 5 April 2022
The only phrase you’ll need to get this debut into the hands of avid YA readers will be ‘Sapphic rom-com’—but there’s a lot more to this novel that will capture...
Black River (Matthew Spencer, A&U)
Tuesday, 5 April 2022
He’s been dubbed the Blue Moon Killer: someone who has been killing young women along Sydney’s Parramatta River whenever the moon is full. Sydney is on edge, and the cops,...
The Making of Her (Bernadette Jiwa, Bantam)
Tuesday, 5 April 2022
The Making of Her is a historical family drama that immediately conjures the sense of a time not so long ago. Spanning the 1960s to the 1990s, this cross between...
Hard Joy: Life and writing (Susan Varga, Upswell)
Tuesday, 5 April 2022
Susan Varga spent the first half of her life having affairs with inappropriate men, including some of the older leading lights of the libertarian Sydney Push. At the same time,...
Open Your Heart to Country (Jasmine Seymour, Magabala)
Tuesday, 5 April 2022
Open Your Heart to Country is the stunning fourth picture book from Dharug woman and award-winning author/illustrator Jasmine Seymour. It’s a story of welcome and belonging told in two languages,...
How to Be Between (Bastian Fox Phelan, Giramondo)
Tuesday, 29 March 2022
How to Be Between is a memoir that takes the reader on a tour of Australian counterculture at the beginning of the 21st century, through queer spaces, art festivals, DIY...
The Way of Dog (Zana Fraillon, UQP)
Tuesday, 29 March 2022
The Way of Dog is the latest work from internationally acclaimed author Zana Fraillon. A beautifully written verse novel told through an animal voice, this is an ambitious and absorbing...
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