Tuesday, 4 July 2023
Ash Barty hardly needs an introduction. She has captivated the world with her tennis skills, infectious personality and unwavering fair-mindedness since her first Women’s Tennis Association tour in 2011. Barty...

Tuesday, 4 July 2023
Backwaters by Emma Ling Sidnam is the 2022 winner of the distinguished Michael Gifkins Text Prize for an Unpublished Novel by a New Zealand writer. Drawing on themes of identity,...

Tuesday, 27 June 2023
Back Up, written by Walkley and Eureka award-winning science journalist Liam Mannix, exposes the appalling practices pervasive in the enormous industries set up to deal with back pain. Covering a...

Tuesday, 27 June 2023
Fiona Britton’s debut crime novel, Violet Kelly and the Jade Owl, offers readers a glimpse into 1930s Sydney—from a peek behind the curtain of the upscale brothel, Maison des Fleurs,...

Tuesday, 27 June 2023
Nina Nill is an Australia-based artist and illustrator who has amassed a large Instagram following for her digital art. We’re Moving Away is her first picture book, a gentle, warm-hearted tale...

Tuesday, 27 June 2023
In Nature’s Song, a girl hunts for the perfect treasure for her little brother, who is stuck at home with a broken leg. She sets out in her overalls, dog...

Tuesday, 27 June 2023
In Prehistoric Joy, archaeologist Andrew Sneddon applies his knowledge of prehistorical cultures to his past, specifically the years when his mother was in a relationship with a violent conman. After...

Tuesday, 20 June 2023
The title of Craig Semple’s memoir, The Cop Who Fell to Earth, suggests flight and ambition, but it could also be reframed as an earthbound slog through a dark maze...

Tuesday, 20 June 2023
File this one under ‘typography/lunchbox inspo/poetry/humour/veggies’—oh, sorry, you don’t have that section on your bookshelves? Well, make one, so you can put Maree Coote’s Letters for Lunch! there. This quirky,...

Tuesday, 20 June 2023
Catherine Norton’s first book, Crossing, was awarded the 2015 NSW Premier’s Literary Award for children’s literature and was a CBCA Notable book in the same year. The Fortune Maker is...

Tuesday, 20 June 2023
God Forgets About the Poor is an endearing chronicle of a migrant mother’s life from 1945 to the present. Vivid descriptions bring the locations to life, from being born amid...

Tuesday, 13 June 2023
Set in the ‘undecided and hazy spring’ when MAS370 disappeared, Jessica Zhan Mei Yu’s debut novel But the Girl transports us to London, where an Australian narrator of Chinese Malaysian...

Tuesday, 13 June 2023
Grandad is a rebel who breaks so many rules the family call him ‘Granbad’. He gives his grandchild lollies instead of healthy food, reads stories way past bedtime and flouts...

Tuesday, 13 June 2023
Author Andrew McDonald and illustrator Ben Wood, who together have earned fame with the Real Pigeons series, have branched out with a new early reader graphic novel series. In Hello...

Tuesday, 13 June 2023
Nothing Alike, a picture book by Zewlan Moor and illustrated by Peter Cheong, is impressive on many levels. The clean, playful and dynamic illustrations and design keenly reflect the substance...

Tuesday, 13 June 2023
Few would disagree that the Australian cultural and political landscape has undergone a seismic shift since the Howard era. In his new book, Graeme Turner argues that the result has...

Tuesday, 13 June 2023
Few books are narrated by their murder victim, but Stacey, who has just died in a car crash in sunny Los Angeles, is determined to find out what really happened...