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...
Unholy Terrors (Lyndall Clipstone, Penguin)
Tuesday, 15 August 2023
Unholy Terrors is an alluring, gothic tale of forbidden love and shifting allegiances in a land of magic and monsters. Everline Blackthorn is not like the other wardens who guard...
Zero Risk: Keeping others safe in a dangerous world (Tony Loughran, Echo)
Tuesday, 15 August 2023
Tony Loughran’s memoir, Zero Risk, certainly lives up to his motto—‘I’d rather spend one year as a tiger than a hundred years as a sheep’. From his rough-and-tumble—and then outright...
Kinky History (Esmé Louise James, Pantera)
Tuesday, 15 August 2023
Kinky History is based on the wildly popular TikTok account we all needed. Author Esmé Louise James (@esme.louisee) is a TikTok phenomenon with over 2.3 million followers, and it’s pretty...
Nikki Hind: Dressed for success (John Dickson, illus Chantel de Sousa, Berbay)
Tuesday, 15 August 2023
Nikki Hind: Dressed for Success is part of Vision Australia’s Big Vision series that profiles Australian people living with blindness or low vision. It’s a short biography of Nikki Hind,...
A–Z of Who I Could Be (Chloe Dalton, illus Kim Siew, A&U)
Tuesday, 15 August 2023
A–Z of Who I Could Be showcases 26 Australian top-performing female and non-binary athletes across 26 different sports. Chloe Dalton presents us with the likes of Ash Barty, Nova Peris,...
Green Dot (Madeleine Gray, A&U)
Tuesday, 15 August 2023
Madeline Gray’s debut novel, Green Dot, which has enjoyed a lot of pre-publication buzz, is a surprising read. With some superficial markers of the recently popular ‘sad girl’ novel—particularly in...
The Opposite of Success (Eleanor Elliott Thomas, Text)
Tuesday, 15 August 2023
Arianna Huffington’s quote, ‘Failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success’, is the essence of Eleanor Elliott Thomas’s debut novel and likely the source of its title....
Prima Facie (Suzie Miller, Picador)
Tuesday, 8 August 2023
Prima Facie, Suzie Miller’s debut novel (adapted from her internationally award-winning 2019 play of the same name), is a relentless, arresting story of a criminal defence barrister whose passionate faith...
Listen (Duncan Smith & Nicole Godwin, illus Jandamarra Cadd, Wild Dog)
Tuesday, 8 August 2023
From the team that brought us We Are Australians in 2022 comes another stunning picture book about First Nations people and their connection to the land. In simple but direct...
If You Tell Anyone, You’re Next (Jack Heath, Scholastic)
Tuesday, 8 August 2023
Bestselling author Jack Heath has written 40 books for children, teenagers and adults. He returns with a pulse-racing psychological thriller set in a suburban high school. Zoe’s best friend Jayden...
Salt River Road (Molly Schmidt, Fremantle)
Tuesday, 8 August 2023
Radio producer, journalist and now award-winning writer Molly Schmidt has poured her heart into her first book Salt River Road. ‘Write what you know’, they say, and having lost her...
The Modern (Anna Kate Blair, Scribner)
Tuesday, 8 August 2023
Art aficionados and literary enthusiasts will feel at home in The Modern, in which Anna Kate Blair navigates New York City’s modern art institutions. Sophia is a MoMA fellow in NYC, who grapples with her instinct to sentimentalise her...
Back to the Storks (Cressida Gaukroger, illus Andrew Joyner, Little Hare)
Tuesday, 8 August 2023
Back to the Storks plays on the old wives’ tale that babies are delivered to homes by storks. Otis is such a loud baby that when his parents are at...
Bennelong and Phillip: A history unravelled (Kate Fullagar, Scribner)
Tuesday, 8 August 2023
Bennelong and Phillip: A history unravelled is an important book for our current time. In 2023, Australians will vote in the Voice to Parliament referendum to decide whether to recognise Aboriginal...
Finding My Bella Vita (Pia Miranda, Hachette)
Tuesday, 8 August 2023
Pia Miranda’s memoir, Finding My Bella Vita, is like a long phone call with a friend. Based in Melbourne, Miranda is an actor best known for her role as Josie...
Faking It: Artificial intelligence in a human world (Toby Walsh, La Trobe University Press)
Tuesday, 1 August 2023
In his opening chapter, Toby Walsh says Faking It is about ‘the artificiality of artificial intelligence’. At a time when venture capitalist-backed hustlers dominate the field and try to make...
In Times of Bushfires and Billy Buttons (Steven Herrick, Ford St)
Tuesday, 1 August 2023
With his parents in jail for drug dealing, high-school student Ethan goes to live with his Aunt Helen, a supermarket stacker who dreams of the Greek Islands. He gets by...
Summer of Blood (Dave Warner, Fremantle)
Tuesday, 1 August 2023
Ned Kelly award-winning author and musician-songwriter Dave Warner revisits characters from his 1999 novel Big Bad Blood. Set two years after the events of that book, in 1967, Summer of...
Me, Her, Us (Yen-Rong Wong, UQP)
Tuesday, 1 August 2023
Yen-Rong Wong’s Me, Her, Us encapsulates the Asian female body experience in a post-pandemic world. Wong oscillates between belonging and unbelonging in this bold-yet-anxious slice of Asian-Australian diaspora experience. The work is broken...
The Sugar Palace (Fiona McIntosh, Michael Joseph)
Tuesday, 1 August 2023
Set in 1920s Sydney, The Sugar Palace is a pacy historical adventure with the perfect dose of romance, and shifts between the shadows of Sydney’s criminal underbelly and The Rocks....
This Book is a Time Machine (Tracey Dembo, illus Lucinda Gifford, Affirm)
Tuesday, 1 August 2023
Children, and readers of all ages, delight in books where all is not as it seems: conventions of time and space may be disrupted; the narrator speaks to the reader...
Kip of the Mountain (Emma Gourlay, HarperCollins)
Tuesday, 1 August 2023
Emma Gourlay’s debut novel for readers aged 8–12 is the madcap adventure of Kip Boowitt, who lives on South Africa’s Table Mountain. Beleaguered by a distant dad and cruel schoolmates,...
Giovanni (Crystal Corocher, illus Margeaux Davis, Wombat Books)
Tuesday, 1 August 2023
Giovanni is the true story of a young Italian boy who migrates to Australia with his family in 1881 as one of the first Italian migrants. Promised paradise by a...
We Know a Place (Maxine Beneba Clarke, Lothian)
Tuesday, 25 July 2023
Award-winning and well-loved writer for all ages, Maxine Beneba Clarke, celebrates the magic of bookshops in her latest title for younger readers. We Know a Place is an illustrated tribute to those...
Your Head’s Not The Place To Store Problems (Josh Pyke, illus Stephen Michael King, Scholastic)
Tuesday, 25 July 2023
By replacing human characters with a diverse range of animals, such as bears, dragons, fish, and dogs, Your Head's Not the Place to Store Problems skilfully demonstrates to children the...
Transgender Australia: A history since 1910 (Noah Riseman, MUP)
Tuesday, 25 July 2023
Noah Riseman’s Transgender Australia: A History since 1910 is the first book that tracks Australian trans history and explores the lives and impacts of gender-diverse people. It’s important for LGBTQ+...
Others Were Emeralds (Lang Leav, Viking)
Tuesday, 25 July 2023
The year is 1997—the era of Jerry Maguire and Scream, dial-up modems, and rising anti-Asian sentiment in the heavily politicised Australian town of Whitlam. Poet Lang Leav’s debut novel revolves...
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