The Grizzled Grist Does Not Exist (Juliette MacIver, illus by Sarah Davis, Gecko Press)
Tuesday, 19 July 2022
Following the international success of That’s Not a Hippopotamus, linguist Juliette MacIver returns with The Grizzled Grist Does Not Exist, an irresistible, rhyming rollick through the wilderness. While Ms Whisk...
Charlie’s Whale (Libby Gleeson, illus by Hannah Sommerville, Lothian)
Tuesday, 19 July 2022
Distinguished writer Libby Gleeson and CBCA-shortlisted illustrator Hannah Sommerville have successfully collaborated on Charlie’s Whale, a picture book that is destined for awards, and for popularity with children aged two...
Moon Sugar (Angela Meyer, Transit Lounge)
Tuesday, 19 July 2022
Mila—40, single, childless—is used to attending to the needs and wants of others. Her own wants, particularly her sexual desires, have always come second. Kyle, a tentative man in his...
A Girl Called Corpse (Reece Carter, A&U)
Tuesday, 19 July 2022
Reece Carter—who previously brought us The Garden Apothecary—has turned his hand to prose for his debut middle-grade novel A Girl Called Corpse. Corpse is a ghost with no memory of...
Seeing Other People (Diana Reid, Ultimo)
Wednesday, 13 July 2022
Eleanor and Charlie are sisters in their 20s, emerging from the pandemic and trying to decide what they want from their lives. Intellectual, straitlaced Eleanor has just broken up with...
Try Not to Think of a Pink Elephant (Fremantle Press)
Wednesday, 13 July 2022
Mental illness is so misunderstood—often even by those of us who live with it—but obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) gets an odd deal. The phrase 'a little bit OCD' infantalises the...
All That’s Left Unsaid (Tracey Lien, HQ Fiction)
Tuesday, 12 July 2022
Brutally murdered inside a restaurant on the night of his high-school graduation, Ky Tran’s brother, Denny, has suffered a ‘bad death’. It is 1996, and when Ky (pronounced ‘key’) travels...
11 Words for Love (Randa Abdel-Fattah, illus by Maxine Beneba Clarke, Lothian)
Tuesday, 12 July 2022
Multi–award winning author Randa Abdel-Fattah and highly acclaimed author–illustrator Maxine Beneba Clarke unite with 11 Words for Love, a beautifully rendered, timely picture book created with heart. Appealing to children...
The Upwelling (Lystra Rose, Lothian)
Tuesday, 12 July 2022
Kirra doesn’t understand how or why, but her dreams come true. And no one believes her, not even Nan, who told Kirra to never mention her ‘power’. One night, she...
The Jammer (Nova Weetman, UQP)
Tuesday, 12 July 2022
Fred has roller derby in her blood. As soon as she could walk, her mum had her skating. It was their thing—and a place where Fred always knew she belonged—until...
The Sun Walks Down (Fiona McFarlane, A&U)
Tuesday, 12 July 2022
Fiona McFarlane’s debut novel The Night Guest and short story collection The High Places received critical acclaim. Now teaching creative writing at the University of California, Berkeley, the author seals...
People Who Lunch (Sally Olds, Upswell)
Wednesday, 6 July 2022
People Who Lunch is the much-anticipated first book by Melbourne-based writer Sally Olds. Known among a devoted coterie of fans for her long-form standalone essays, Olds’ first full collection focuses...
A Message for Nasty (Roderick Fry, Awa Press)
Tuesday, 5 July 2022
Roderick Fry’s debut novel is the harrowing wartime story of a family fighting to reunite amid the destruction of the Second World War. The plot follows a married couple, Marie...
A Question of Age: Women, ageing and the forever self (Jacinta Parsons, ABC Books)
Tuesday, 5 July 2022
Jacinta Parsons wanted to get under the skin of ageing. What is it? And can we prepare ourselves for it, even before we have arrived at ‘old age’ (whatever that...
Itty Bitty Kitty (Maddy Mara, illus by Noémie Gionet Landry, Affirm)
Tuesday, 5 July 2022
Maddy Mara is the pseudonym for publishing powerhouses Hilary Rogers and Meredith Badger, who have between them worked across industry roles from illustration to acquisitions. Having previously collaborated on picture...
My Deadly Boots (Carl Merrison and Hakea Hustler, illus by Samantha Campbell, Lothian)
Tuesday, 5 July 2022
This is the story of a pair of fantastically bright footy boots which may or may not be the source of a young Indigenous boy’s confidence, joy, inspiration, energy, power...
The Wintrish Girl (Melanie La’Brooy, UQP)
Tuesday, 5 July 2022
Melanie La’Brooy’s The Wintrish Girl is an exciting middle-grade fantasy debut. Penn is an outsider in the strict world of Aralyia, a slave to the princess Seraphine, who is orphaned...
The Tree at Number 43 (Jess McGeachin, Puffin)
Tuesday, 5 July 2022
Jess McGeachin has fast established himself as an exciting and skilled creator of picture books, drawing on his work at Melbourne Museum to celebrate the beauty of the natural world...
Where You Left Us (Rhiannon Wilde, UQP)
Tuesday, 28 June 2022
Rhiannon Wilde’s second YA novel, Where You Left Us, is as bewitching as her Glendower Award–winning debut Henry Hamlet’s Heart. It follows the two Prince sisters, Cinnamon and Scarlett, who...
Take a Bow, Noah Mitchell (Tobias Madden, Penguin)
Tuesday, 28 June 2022
Noah and Eli play an online computer game together most nights. They take down swamp goblins and drink virtual flagons of ale for hours at a time, but they still...
Bon and Lesley (Shaun Prescott, Giramondo)
Tuesday, 28 June 2022
Shaun Prescott continues his existential explorations of modern life in his second novel, which follows his 2017 debut The Town. In the opening pages of Bon and Lesley we meet...
Birdbrain (Kelli Anne Hawkins, HarperCollins)
Tuesday, 28 June 2022
In her return to middle-grade fiction, Kelli Anne Hawkins delivers another madcap caper for 10- to 12-year-olds that has puns aplenty and some genuine chuckles. Hadley Boggs is 11 and...
Paper Cage (Tom Baragwanath, Text)
Tuesday, 28 June 2022
Paper Cage is a thrilling whodunnit and the winner of the 2021 Michael Gifkins Prize. The story centres on Lorraine, a records clerk at a small-town police department. She’s bright...
Naturopolis (Deborah Frenkel, illus by Ingrid Bartkowiak, Storytorch Press)
Tuesday, 28 June 2022
The narrative nonfiction genre of children’s books—particularly those exploring the natural world—seems to be growing, and it can be hard to get right, since the audience for the ‘story’ component...
Curlews on Vulture Street (Darryl Jones, NewSouth)
Tuesday, 28 June 2022
A fascination with birds and wildlife took hold early for Darryl Jones. Now a professor of ecology at Griffith University, he first noticed the creatures who shared his landscape as...
Dirt by Sea (Michael Wagner, illus by Tom Jellett, Puffin)
Tuesday, 21 June 2022
When Daisy mishears the lyrics of the national anthem, Dad declares a road trip in Mum’s Kombi to show her that Australia is an island, girt by sea, even if...
Honour Among Ghosts (Sean Williams, A&U)
Tuesday, 21 June 2022
Honour Among Ghosts is a high-action historical mystery set in a small Irish village where there are sorcerers, moralistic ghosts and spell-scribbling scribes. When 12-year-old Penny’s working-class father is thrown...
Dancing Barefoot (Alice Boyle, Text)
Tuesday, 21 June 2022
Dancing Barefoot brings a warm and uplifting queer contemporary romance to the #LoveOzYA, #AusQueerYA and #OwnVoices scenes. Winner of the 2021 Text Prize, Alice Boyle’s debut novel follows Patti ‘Patch’...
Be Careful, Xiao Xin! (Alice Pung, illus by Sher Rill Ng, Working Title Press)
Tuesday, 21 June 2022
The bilingual picture book Be Careful, Xiao Xin! shows us how hard it can be for a young child to move towards independence and for a family to keep their...
Wildflowers (Peggy Frew, A&U)
Tuesday, 21 June 2022
When we first meet 37-year-old Nina Atkins, the protagonist of Peggy Frew’s Wildflowers, she’s going through a strange time: she’s packing all her possessions into boxes, stealing clothes from the...
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