The Shape of Sound (Fiona Murphy, Text)
Wednesday, 24 February 2021
Just like any relationship, even our relationship with our own body can be fraught with difficulty and denial. Fiona Murphy kept her deafness secret for 25 years, compensating for her...
Spring Clean for the Peach Queen (Sasha Wasley, Pantera)
Tuesday, 23 February 2021
Sasha Wasley’s latest novel marries small-town fiction and Marie Kondo’s The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up in a gentle exploration of what really matters. After her boyfriend dies of an...
Sunburnt Veils (Sara Haghdoosti, Wakefield)
Tuesday, 23 February 2021
Sunburnt Veils is a debut Own Voices novel that feels very relevant, and author and political activist Sara Haghdoosti’s voice is fresh and edgy. At times it is uncomfortable to...
You’ve Let Them In (Lois Murphy, Transit Lounge)
Tuesday, 23 February 2021
Scott is not happy when his hippy stepmum convinces his dad to buy a house straight out of The Amityville Horror. A far cry from their comfortingly overcrowded flat, the...
Tish (Edwina Wyatt, illus by Odette Barberousse, Berbay)
Wednesday, 17 February 2021
Due to their very definition, imaginary friends can come in all shapes and sizes, and Tish is no exception. Resembling a woolly mammoth but with wings and an odour problem...
No Document (Anwen Crawford, Giramondo)
Wednesday, 17 February 2021
In this arresting book, Anwen Crawford reckons with the death of a close friend and comrade. Seeking a language suitable for grief, Crawford stitches together material from a wide range...
The Katha Chest (Radhiah Chowdhury, illus by Lavanya Naidu, A&U)
Wednesday, 17 February 2021
In Radhiah Chowdhury and Lavanya Naidu’s book, elegant textile patterns are patchworked together with descriptive snapshot stories of young Asiya’s family members and their histories. Asiya delights in every one...
The Truth About Her (Jacqueline Maley, Fourth Estate)
Wednesday, 17 February 2021
There is a lot to love about Fairfax journalist Jacqueline Maley’s debut novel, the ripped-from-the-headlines story of Suzy, a journalist who’s blamed for the shocking death of Tracey Doran, a...
The Prison Healer (Lynette Noni, Penguin)
Wednesday, 10 February 2021
Lynette Noni, the winner of the 2019 Gold Inky for her dystopian sci-fi novel Whisper, returns to fantasy with The Prison Healer. Kiva’s daily life as prisoner and prison healer...
Love Objects (Emily Maguire, A&U)
Wednesday, 10 February 2021
Pop culture representations of hoarding tend to paint a picture of unrestrained excess. Perhaps this is why, when Emily Maguire introduces Nic, a 45-year-old who loves her job at the...
Tussaud (Belinda Lyons-Lee, Transit Lounge)
Wednesday, 10 February 2021
Madame Tussaud is synonymous with wax figures of the famous and infamous and also with the uncanny-valley discomfort that such figures evoke. This book takes the documented strange life of...
Huda and Me (H Hayek, A&U)
Wednesday, 10 February 2021
When their parents make a sudden trip back to their home country of Lebanon, Huda and Akeal find themselves left with their fellow siblings under the care of a family...
Paws (Kate Foster, Walker Books)
Wednesday, 3 February 2021
Kate Foster is a literary agent and now, with her middle-grade novel Paws, a published children’s author. Eleven-year-old Alex loves dogs, sketching and computer games. But he doesn’t have any...
Wonder Earth (Zanni Louise & Tiff Bollhorn, illus by Sophy Louise Smith, Five Mile)
Wednesday, 3 February 2021
Wonder Earth is a slightly strange hybrid of science reference and imaginative meditation. The authors set out to help children connect with the Earth at both an emotional and a...
Car Crash: A Memoir (Lech Blaine, Black Inc.)
Wednesday, 3 February 2021
In 2009, 17-year-old Lech Blaine and six of his friends were driving home together in Toowoomba. The driver swerved and was hit by an oncoming car. Blaine, who was sitting...
Smokehouse (Melissa Manning, UQP)
Wednesday, 3 February 2021
Melissa Manning’s debut short story collection is an evocative and sometimes heartbreaking exploration of family, home and what it takes to build a fulfilling life. Bookended by two longer works...
Like Mother (Cassandra Austin, Hamish Hamilton)
Thursday, 28 January 2021
It’s 1969 in small-town Australia and new mother Louise can barely leave her own house or step beyond the shadow of her controlling mother, Gladys. With a constantly crying baby,...
The Edge of Thirteen (Nova Weetman, UQP)
Thursday, 28 January 2021
The Edge of Thirteen is the latest offering by acclaimed middle-grade author Nova Weetman. Following the characters from Weetman's 'The Secrets We Keep' series, yet working as a standalone story,...
Return to Uluru (Mark McKenna, Black Inc.)
Thursday, 28 January 2021
‘Perspective is everything,’ writes historian Mark McKenna in Return to Uluru, his mesmeric history–true crime hybrid. When starting the book, McKenna expected to tell an expansive history of central Australia,...
The Believer (Sarah Krasnostein, Text)
Thursday, 28 January 2021
The people who populate The Believer are remarkably different from one another. There are, among others, a convicted murderer, a ‘death doula’, paranormal investigators, and Christian researchers who have dedicated...
9 Things to Remember (and one to forget) (Alison Binks, Berbay)
Thursday, 28 January 2021
This picture book opens with a girl relaxing on a hammock somewhere in the forest, along with the words, ‘If you sleep outside remember that birds wake up very early...
My Year of Living Vulnerably (Rick Morton, Fourth Estate)
Wednesday, 20 January 2021
Anyone who enjoyed Rick Morton’s memoir One Hundred Years of Dirt will want to read My Year of Living Vulnerably. Under a disparate set of headings—The Self, Forgiveness, Animals, Touch,...
Rajah Street (Myo Yim, Walker Books)
Wednesday, 20 January 2021
In this sunny picture book, three-year-old Junya watches the world outside his window as he waits hopefully for the arrival of one of his most favourite things ever: the garbage...
Dropbear (Evelyn Araluen, UQP)
Wednesday, 20 January 2021
When I was in primary school, on the occasion that foreign travellers or tourists would come to visit, our conversation would inevitably turn to Australia's famous fauna and flora—to snakes...
The Breaking (Irma Gold, MidnightSun)
Wednesday, 20 January 2021
When Hannah meets fellow Australian traveller Deven in the lobby of a hostel in Thailand, her trip quickly gains a sense of purpose. Hannah’s drawn to the fiery, charismatic Deven...
Waking Romeo (Kathryn Barker, A&U)
Wednesday, 20 January 2021
Waking Romeo is a stunning reimagining of the classic tale of Romeo and Juliet—meets Wuthering Heights, meets epic time-travelling extravaganza. The main story revolves around Juliet and a group of...
The Gaps (Leanne Hall, Text)
Wednesday, 13 January 2021
The fourth novel by 2009 Text Prize winner Leanne Hall is simultaneously harrowing and enchanting. The Gaps begins as abruptly as a slap, with a newscast declaring schoolgirl Yin Mitchell...
The Detective’s Guide to Ocean Travel (Nicki Greenberg, Affirm)
Wednesday, 13 January 2021
Award-winning picture book and graphic novel author and illustrator Nicki Greenberg has turned her attention to middle-grade mystery in her newest work, The Detective’s Guide to Ocean Travel. Perfect for...
Main Abija My Grandad (Karen Rogers, A&U)
Wednesday, 13 January 2021
Written as a tribute to the author and artist Karen Rogers’s grandfather, who was instrumental in teaching her about her ancestry and Country, this picture book is a celebration of...
A Room Called Earth (Madeleine Ryan, Scribe)
Wednesday, 13 January 2021
In the light of a full moon on a sweltering December night—Christmas Eve eve—a nameless young woman drapes herself in a silk kimono and goes to a party, alone. Singularly...
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