Tuesday, 9 May 2023
The Watchful Wife is the latest novel by the author of The Deceptions and The Teacher’s Pet, Suzanne Leal. It follows the life of its narrator, Ellen Wells, the daughter...

Tuesday, 9 May 2023
From critically acclaimed author Zana Fraillon and fine artist and illustrator Ross Morgan, The Gargoyle is a picture book that leaves a lasting impression of hope and kindness for our...

Tuesday, 9 May 2023
Kristy Shaw wants to win back her first true love, Max. Desperately. She will go to any lengths, including unwittingly signing up to appear on the new reality TV show...

Tuesday, 2 May 2023
Jamie Langton doesn’t mean to be so angry. He didn’t mean to partake in car theft. He didn’t mean to end up in juvenile detention. After a plan to get...

Tuesday, 2 May 2023
In 2021, during one of Victoria’s most arduous Covid-19 lockdowns, essayist and podcaster Madison Griffiths underwent the termination of a pregnancy. So begins Tissue, an insightful and perceptive critical analysis...

Tuesday, 25 April 2023
The word ‘heartfelt’ is what comes to mind upon closing the pages of Ella and Star. The winning team of Michelle Wanasundera and Nichole Wade, along with creative small press...

Tuesday, 25 April 2023
Chinese Fish is a brilliant work of genre-bending prose poetry by award-winning poet Grace Yee. Full of subtle poetic turns, Yee’s narrative is an intimate look at a Cantonese family...

Tuesday, 18 April 2023
The first in a new series, Monsties: The Lost Bunny will no doubt be literary candy for its target readership of 5–8-year-olds. The story is a frothy concoction of zany,...

Tuesday, 18 April 2023
Melissa Levi is a clinical psychologist who intended to specialise in paediatric medicine. It’s a happy accident that she ended up helping the ageing instead. With We Need to Talk...

Tuesday, 11 April 2023
Sally Murphy is one of the best verse novelists in Australian children’s fiction. Her tenderness, lyricism, poetic voice and sensitive handling of troubling themes are what make her verse novels...

Tuesday, 11 April 2023
From performer and voiceover artist Alison McLennan comes a story about a penguin who is thought to be the ‘chosen one’. Birdie is convinced she has the unique ability to...

Tuesday, 11 April 2023
This picture book is as warm and tender as a sunset glow upon a band of friends. Award-winning author and illustrator duo Andrea Rowe and Hannah Sommerville follow the triumph...

Tuesday, 11 April 2023
Gabrielle has inherited the gift of being able to change the colour of her skin from her mother Tallulah, and her mother before her. Yet Gabrielle grows up in a...

Tuesday, 11 April 2023
What would happen to Australia should Donald Trump win a second term as president of the United States? Such a situation seems an impossibility, yet the same was said for...