Fluff: Bullies Beware (Matt Stanton, ABC Books)
Tuesday, 19 September 2023
Gilbert Morris lives with his mum and sister in a caravan park. After his dad goes missing in outer space, Gilbert’s mum gives him Fluff, a comfort toy, to squeeze...
Women & Children (Tony Birch, UQP)
Tuesday, 12 September 2023
Tony Birch’s latest novel, Women & Children, is a thoughtful and profound story of a working-class family doing their best to resist a system that’s geared against them. In 1965...
Kimmi: Queen of the dingoes (Favel Parrett, illus Astred Hicks, Lothian)
Tuesday, 12 September 2023
For young readers who enjoyed Favel Parrett’s alpine dingo tale in Wandi (2021), Kimmi follows a real-life tropical dingo who, like Wandi, now lives at the Dingo Discovery Sanctuary and...
Crow Baby (Helen Milroy, Fremantle)
Tuesday, 12 September 2023
Set in a time long ago, when the universe was newly created and things were ‘unpredictable and unique’, a baby is born containing two spirits—one human and one crow. The...
Big Mouth (Matt Preston, Viking)
Tuesday, 12 September 2023
Big Mouth is the first memoir from long-time MasterChef host Matt Preston, who has previously published eight bestselling cookbooks. This book details the experiences of a man who has kept his...
The Paris Cooking School (Sophie Beaumont, Ultimo)
Tuesday, 12 September 2023
Two middle-class women at a crossroads in life travel to Paris to learn to cook ‘the French Way’ at Sylvie Morel’s Paris Cooking School. Gabi has lost her muse, Kate...
An Unexpected Party (ed by Seth Malacari, Fremantle)
Tuesday, 12 September 2023
The queer experience is immensely diverse, too vast and evolving as a space to be summed up by any one representation, but An Unexpected Party—an anthology of queer speculative short stories—aims...
Strangely Enough (ed by Gillian Hagenus, MidnightSun)
Tuesday, 12 September 2023
Strangely Enough is a slim collection of very short fiction that leans towards the peculiar and slightly unsettling. It’s also very much on point with the current zeitgeist. Short, twisty...
Spies in the Sky (Beverley McWilliams, illus Martina Heiduczek, Pantera)
Wednesday, 6 September 2023
Inspired by the little-known story of the British National Pigeon Service, a volunteer organisation of pigeon breeders who provided their animals for military service during WWII, Spies in the Sky by...
Bedtime Stories for Hard Days (Scott Stuart, Bright Light)
Tuesday, 5 September 2023
Scott Stuart is a children’s book creator and speaker whose mission is to empower kids beyond gender stereotypes and toxic masculinity. He first became famous on social media for encouraging...
Artichoke to Zucchini (Alice Oehr, Scribble)
Tuesday, 5 September 2023
If you’re looking for an A–Z book with a twist, Alice Oehr’s Artichoke to Zucchini: An alphabet of delicious things from around the world is it. From ubiquitous bananas to...
Mrs Winterbottom Takes a Gap Year (Joanna Nell, Hachette)
Tuesday, 5 September 2023
‘Books with heart and humour,’ reads the tagline of author Joanna Nell’s website, and her latest book, Mrs Winterbottom Takes a Gap Year, is no exception. After the bestselling The...
World (Martine Murray, illus Anna Read, Parachute Press)
Tuesday, 5 September 2023
World is the third collaboration between author Martine Murray and illustrator Anna Read and is another powerful fable. A man leaves the city and comes to the forest with an axe...
Ask Aunty: Seasons (Aunty Munya Andrews, illus Charmaine Ledden-Lewis, HGE)
Tuesday, 5 September 2023
Seasons provide a beautiful and poetic lens through which to begin understanding a culture, and the brief cross-section that Ask Aunty invites us to peer into is brimming with knowledge and ways of...
Epic: Adventures across Aotearoa (Ray Salisbury, Exisle)
Tuesday, 5 September 2023
Covering 10 iconic journeys around and across Aotearoa New Zealand, Ray Salisbury retells each adventurer’s inspiring and often harrowing trek, working from first-hand accounts in blogs and books to bring...
A Life Song (Jane Godwin, illus Anna Walker, Puffin)
Tuesday, 29 August 2023
The latest masterpiece by dream team Jane Godwin and Anna Walker, A Life Song is a gentle rhyming picture book that ponders growing up and finding your place in the world. ‘When you are...
The Vanishing Point (Andrea Hotere, Ultimo)
Tuesday, 29 August 2023
Journalist and researcher Andrea Hotere has put her investigative skills to work in The Vanishing Point: a dual-timeline historical mystery novel concerning Diego Velázquez’s 1656 royal portrait, Las Meninas. In 17th-century...
Everything Under the Moon (ed by Michael Earp, illus Kit Fox, Affirm)
Tuesday, 29 August 2023
Everything Under the Moon: Fairy tales in a queerer light is a collection of insightful stories from a variety of authors, including Michael Earp, Alison Evans, Helena Fox, Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner,...
Blair Moon: How to be cooler than the moon (AshIeigh Mounser, Ford St)
Tuesday, 29 August 2023
Blair Moon: How to be cooler than the moon by Ashleigh Mounser is a fast-paced novel that doesn’t let up, much like its protagonist, Blair Moon. Eleven-year-old Blair is precocious,...
Run Pups Run (Kerri Day, illus Nicky Johnston, Windy Hollow)
Tuesday, 29 August 2023
Kerri Day's Run Pups Run is a lively and charming story of a family beach excursion. The day begins as a family and their three dogs head down to the...
The Disappearance of Astrid Bricard (Natasha Lester, Hachette)
Tuesday, 29 August 2023
In Paris, 1917, 16-year-old Mizza Bricard is determined to leave a lasting mark on the world. She creates a house of couture that will establish a legacy spanning generations, reaching...
The Things We Live With (Gemma Nisbet, Upswell)
Tuesday, 29 August 2023
Gemma Nisbet is a writer and journalist who holds onto things, but this book isn’t about hoarding. It’s not even a self-help antidote to ‘Marie Kondo-ing’ your stuff. In this...
Home to Biloela (Priya Nadesalingam with Rebekah Holt, A&U)
Tuesday, 22 August 2023
Raw and poignant, Priya Nadesalingam’s Home to Biloela is a personal account of what became a national campaign to bring one family home. It provides an intimate insight into the well-known story...
The Rust Red Land (Robyn Bishop, Spinifex)
Tuesday, 22 August 2023
Set in country New South Wales beginning in 1890, The Rust Red Land follows Matilda as she comes of age through to the 1930s. She does all that is expected of her as...
Giinagay Gaagal, Hello Ocean (Melissa Greenwood, ABC Books)
Tuesday, 22 August 2023
With Giinagay Gaagal, Hello Ocean, Gumbaynggirr artist Melissa Greenwood, from the NSW region known as Coffs Harbour, once again gifts us with a beautiful ode to family and the land....
Gunflower (Laura Jean McKay, Scribe)
Tuesday, 22 August 2023
Laura Jean McKay’s Gunflower is a vivid and tantalising short story collection where animals are as seamlessly anthropomorphised as humans are animalised. McKay asks readers to suspend their narrative expectations and blurs...
What to Do When You’re Not Sure What to Do (Davina Bell, illus Hilary Jean Tapper, Lothian)
Tuesday, 22 August 2023
‘Some things need careful hands ... It’s always good to ask first ... Remember to look up! And look down.’ These are some of the little snippets of advice offered in...
Unfinished Woman (Robyn Davidson, Bloomsbury)
Tuesday, 22 August 2023
Robyn Davidson is perhaps best known for her novel Tracks and has a writing career spanning over 40 years. Her latest, Unfinished Woman, is a nomadic memoir that details the author’s traumatic childhood,...
The Observologist (Giselle Clarkson, Gecko)
Tuesday, 22 August 2023
An observologist is someone who makes scientific expeditions every day and notices interesting details in the world around them. This is the first thing we learn in The Observologist by Giselle Clarkson,...
Edenglassie (Melissa Lucashenko, UQP)
Tuesday, 15 August 2023
Melissa Lucashenko’s Edenglassie is a literary epic that skilfully weaves between the present day, where Grannie Eddie is looked after by her feisty granddaughter Winona and Dr Johnny, and mid-1850s Brisbane, where...
