Thunderhead (Sophie Beer, A&U Children’s)
Tuesday, 1 October 2024
Thunderhead is the debut middle-grade novel by award-winning author and illustrator Sophie Beer. Thunderhead (the titular character’s online username—their name isn’t revealed until the end of the book) is an...
Tilly in a Tangle (Margrete Lamond, illus Monty Lee, Dirt Lane Press)
Tuesday, 1 October 2024
Tilly in a Tangle, written by Margrete Lamond (The Sorry Tale of Fox and Bear) and illustrated by Monty Lee (Grumpy Bear, Grouchy Bear), is a new picture book about...
The 113th Assistant Librarian (Stuart Wilson, Penguin)
Tuesday, 24 September 2024
The 113th Assistant Librarian is a fantastical story that opens with Oliver Wormwood sneaking out of his house to try to find the trade that is his Calling—his path in...
My Body, My Brain (Nicki Esler Gill, illus Inge Daniels, Scholastic)
Tuesday, 24 September 2024
Nicki Esler Gill’s My Body, My Brain (a companion title to the author’s My Body, My Rules) introduces neurodiversity in a generalised, accessible way for children aged 3 and up,...
The Thinning (Inga Simpson, Hachette)
Tuesday, 24 September 2024
In Inga Simpson’s The Thinning, Fin has grown up in a world long past its tipping point. Daughter to an astronomer father and an astrophotographer mother, Fin knows everything about...
Extreme Animal Facts (Jennifer Cossins, Lothian)
Tuesday, 24 September 2024
Animal books are big business as toddlers to tweens revel in discovering quirky titbits about earth’s creatures. Standing out in a saturated book field is no easy task, but CBCA...
Leave the Girls Behind (Jacqueline Bublitz, A&U)
Tuesday, 24 September 2024
Ruth-Ann Baker, affectionately known as ‘Ruthie’ to those around her, never takes the same route home, secures her apartment with three internal chain locks and can recite murder victim statistics...
Australian Gospel: A Family Saga (Lech Blaine, Black Inc.)
Tuesday, 24 September 2024
Following the success of Car Crash: A Memoir, Lech Blaine’s second book tells the true story of his unique family, who faced serious challenges inflicted by Michael and Mary Shelley,...
Our World Full of Wonder (Jevita Nilson, illus Jess Racklyeft, CSIRO Publishing)
Tuesday, 17 September 2024
Our World Full of Wonder is a parent's and educator’s dream, combining teachable moments written in Jevita Nilson’s heartfelt lyrical prose with charming illustrations from CBCA award-winning illustrator Jess Racklyeft...
Down the Rabbit Hole (Shaeden Berry, Echo)
Tuesday, 17 September 2024
In Shaeden Berry’s mystery debut, Down the Rabbit Hole, the lives of three women unravel in the aftermath of a tragedy. In 2015, Alice Montgomery goes missing. Seven years later,...
Cats and Dogs in Art and Design (ed by Laurie Benson & Imogen Mallia-Valjan, NGV with T&H)
Tuesday, 17 September 2024
Cats and Dogs in Art and Design is a vibrantly illustrated book featuring over 100 artworks from the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) collection, alongside short essays by NGV curators....
Vegan Italian Food (Shannon Martinez, Hardie Grant)
Tuesday, 17 September 2024
Prolific vegan chef and restauranteur Shannon Martinez’s fourth cookbook, Vegan Italian Food, is anything but conventional, but she promises she’s not out to shock your nonna. Martinez is a Spanish Australian...
Molly (Rosalie Ham, Macmillan)
Tuesday, 17 September 2024
Molly is a riveting prequel to The Dressmaker from much-loved Australian author Rosalie Ham, and can be enjoyed as a standalone novel. Set in the inner-city suburbs of Melbourne in...
The Strange and Unlikely Tale of Montgomery, the Mysterious Bird of Mystery (Antony Elworthy, Walker)
Tuesday, 17 September 2024
According to his grandson, Gramps has had ‘what they call a Chequered Career’. It has taken him on all sorts of adventures, though by far the most exciting was his...
Spinning Around: The Kylie Playlist (ed by Kirsten Krauth & Angela Savage, Fremantle)
Tuesday, 10 September 2024
Kylie Minogue’s greatest hits become writing prompts for popular Australian writers in Spinning Around: The Kylie Playlist. With contributors such as Alice Pung, Christos Tsiolkas and Lucy Treloar, this ‘playlist’...
Theory & Practice (Michelle de Kretser, Text)
Tuesday, 10 September 2024
Theory & Practice is a quietly experimental new novel from two-time Miles Franklin winner Michelle de Kretser (Scary Monsters). Set mainly in St Kilda in 1986, it captures a snapshot...
Off to the Nursery (Alice Oehr, Scribble)
Tuesday, 10 September 2024
Off to the Nursery is the latest from Alice Oehr, the award-winning creator of Off to the Market and Artichoke to Zucchini. With this new picture book, Oehr has focused on gardening and...
My Name Is Gucci: A Dog’s Story (Sun Jung, Transit Lounge)
Tuesday, 10 September 2024
Inyeon is a Korean word and Buddhist term meaning ‘destiny’ or ‘karmic relation’, representing the concept that two beings are bound to interact with each other in one way or...
Hazel’s Treehouse (Zanni Louise, illus by Judy Watson, Walker)
Tuesday, 10 September 2024
Zanni Louise (Cora Seen and Heard) has written over 40 books for children, two of which have received CBCA commendations. Louise has teamed up with equally lauded illustrator Judy Watson...
Amigo the Capybara (Amy Freund, illus Kooky Chooky, File Mile)
Tuesday, 10 September 2024
In Amigo the Capybara, Amy Freund takes a simple story about making friends and compromising, and capitalises on the ‘quirk’ factor by using a capybara and a chinchilla as the...
Pictures of You (Emma Grey, Penguin)
Tuesday, 3 September 2024
Emma Grey’s second adult romance, Pictures of You, follows her successful debut, The Last Love Note, and shares similar themes of love, grief and hope, while weaving in mystery and...
Words to Sing the World Alive (ed by Jasmin McGaughey and The Poet’s Voice, UQP)
Tuesday, 3 September 2024
Words to Sing the World Alive, edited by Torres Strait Islander and African American author/editor Jasmin McGaughey and organisation The Poet’s Voice, collects stories from 40 First Nations contributors as they...
All the Beautiful Things (Katrina Nannestad, ABC Books)
Tuesday, 3 September 2024
Approaching her fourth World War II novel, All the Beautiful Things, I feared Katrina Nannestad may have run out of stories to tell, but this book was as compelling and...
The Power of Two (Lisa Messenger & Sarah Megginson, Pantera)
Tuesday, 3 September 2024
Co-authoring a book is an intimate venture, but for Lisa Messenger and Sarah Megginson, The Power of Two is just the latest in a series of incredibly personal journeys the...
A Secret Garden in Paris (Sophie Beaumont, Ultimo)
Tuesday, 3 September 2024
Sophie Beaumont’s latest novel, A Secret Garden in Paris, follows three women whose lives intertwine in Paris. The women are each at a substantial crossroads in their lives: Emma has...
Meerkat Mayhem (Mem Fox & Judy Horacek, Puffin)
Tuesday, 3 September 2024
Mem Fox and Judy Horacek, the dream team behind the popular picture book Where Is the Green Sheep? (now celebrating its 20th anniversary), have a new collaboration that is also...
Epic Salads (Jessica Prescott, Hardie Grant Books)
Tuesday, 27 August 2024
If you’re ready to ditch the pre-made salads from your local supermarket, Jessica Prescott’s Epic Salads: For every mood, craving and occasion is a must-have for your cookbook collection. Prescott...
Stepping Sideways (ed by Emily Larkin & Lynne Stringer, Rhiza Edge)
Tuesday, 27 August 2024
An Irish water sprite takes on human form with dire consequences, young people without professional prospects are farmed out to sadistic circuses, and a clockwork pneumatic contraption becomes sentient. These...
The Whale’s Last Song (Joanne Fedler, HarperCollins)
Tuesday, 27 August 2024
Joanne Fedler’s spellbinding The Whale’s Last Song is set in a time known as ‘The Great Forgetting’, when a plague ravages the medieval hamlet of Villingraz. While the wealthy hide...
This Kingdom of Dust (David Dyer, Penguin)
Tuesday, 27 August 2024
In his sophomore novel, David Dyer skilfully blurs history and fiction to pose the question: What if the Apollo mission had failed to return from the Moon? This Kingdom of...
