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Kill Your Brother (Jack Heath, A&U)
Released December 2021
Kill Your Brother by Jack Heath is a taut thriller brimming with suspense and secrets. In regional NSW, a sister’s desperate search for her missing brother becomes a devious game of... Read more
Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens (Shankari Chandran, Ultimo)
Released January 2022
Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens immerses the reader in the microcosm of the Cinnamon Gardens Nursing Home. Against the backdrop of the heartbreaking trauma of the Sri Lankan Civil War, the... Read more
Between the Last Oasis and the Next Mirage: Writing on Australia (Guy Rundle, MUP)
Released December 2021
Guy Rundle lives off his wits. Correspondent-at-large for Crikey, a founding editor of the left-wing journal Arena, former sketch comedy show producer and famed writer of lives, Rundle produces writing... Read more
Buying and Selling the Poor: Inside Australia’s privatised welfare-to-work market (Siobhan O’Sullivan, Michael McGann & Mark Considine, SUP)
Released December 2021
When Paul Keating put elements of Australia’s ‘welfare to work’ system out to tender in the mid-1990s, he could scarcely have imagined the system we have in place today: one... Read more
Canticle Creek (Adrian Hyland, Ultimo)
Released December 2021
When Daisy Baker’s body is discovered on her outback property the case appears to be straightforward. Daisy’s boyfriend Adam Lawson, new to the Victorian town of Canticle Creek from the... Read more
The Long Weekend (Fiona Palmer, Hachette)
Released December 2021
Four strangers meet for a weekend writing retreat in an idyllic location south of Perth. While this might sound like a familiar premise for a work of commercial fiction, the individuality of the characters, and the... Read more
Cold Coast (Robyn Mundy, Ultimo)
Released November 2021
It's 1932. Ivanna ‘Wanny’ Woldstad longs to enter the male-dominated world of hunting and trapping. An independently minded woman, she runs her own taxi in Tromsø, in Northern Norway. A... Read more
The Freedom of Birds (Stephanie Parkyn, A&U)
Released December 2021
For the charming, self-absorbed Rémi Victoire and his faithful companion, Pascal, the life of itinerant storytellers allows them to forget the staggering betrayal that first caused them to flee Paris.... Read more
The Last Woman in the World (Inga Simpson, Hachette)
Released November 2021
Inga Simpson’s fourth novel asks who we would choose to become in a catastrophic near-future Australia. Ray, short for Rachel, is a glass artist who sequesters herself deep in the... Read more
Killernova (Omar Musa, Penguin)
Released December 2021
The latest collection from slam poet champion Omar Musa is a raw and muscular combination of poetry and woodcut art that uses the visual and literary capacities of each form... Read more
