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How to Avoid a Happy Life (Julia Lawrinson, Fremantle)

Released May 2024

How to Avoid a Happy Life is a lively memoir by Julia Lawrinson (Losing It), the author of over 15 books for young people. This memoir takes readers through a lifetime of sad and... Read more

Peripathetic: Notes on (un)belonging (Cher Tan, NewSouth)

Released May 2024

The nine essays in this collection, Peripathetic by Melbourne-based Cher Tan, use the form’s digressive capacity well. In elastic prose informed by wide reading, Tan heads down wordy, winding rabbit... Read more

Safe Haven (Shankari Chandran, Ultimo)

Released May 2024

Miles Franklin–winning author Shankari Chandran turns her focus to Australia’s inhumane practice of mandatory detention in her fourth novel, Safe Haven. As in Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens, a focal... Read more

Circadia (Judith Bishop, UQP)

Released May 2024

Judith Bishop’s Circadia is a collection of neatly formed, intelligent poems in which you can discover something new with each read. Bishop is in conversation with a chorus of voices and introduces... Read more

To Sing of War (Catherine McKinnon, HarperCollins)

Released May 2024

From Miles Franklin–shortlisted author Catherine McKinnon (Storyland), To Sing of War confronts the interconnectedness that binds humanity. Against the backdrop of WWII, we find ourselves immersed in the jungles of... Read more

Saltblood (Francesca de Tores, Bloomsbury)

Released May 2024

Saltblood is an engrossing, deeply felt historical novel by Melbourne poet, author and academic Francesca de Tores (with previous works published as Francesca Haig), fictionalising the life of pirate Mary... Read more

The Mistress of Dara Island (Averil Kenny, Echo)

Released April 2024

Traversing the 1950s to 1960s, Averil Kenny’s The Mistress of Dara Island follows Tally Ramsey, who spent her childhood on a paradisiacal tropical island. Despite its setting in the real-world... Read more

Ela! Ela! (Ella Mittas, Murdoch)

Released May 2024

Ela! Ela! means 'Come! Come!', and it’s a wonderfully fitting title for this generous, delicious and personal book of Turkish-Greek recipes, photography and essays, which documents Ella Mittas’s travels to Istanbul, Alaçatı,... Read more

The Deed (Susannah Begbie, Hachette)

Released May 2024

Small-town cattle farmer Tom Edwards knows he is going to die—before he does, he pays a visit to the local solicitor to change the terms of his will. Upon his... Read more

Human? (Ziggy Ramo, Pantera)

Released May 2024

For those familiar with the sounds of Ziggy Ramo, Human?—while his debut book—is but the latest in a collection of revolutionary literary works by the artist. Human? is Ramo’s powerful... Read more

Work Backwards (Tim Duggan, Pantera)

Released April 2024

If you’ve ever felt disenchanted by the daily grind or pondered the pointlessness of the eternal wheel of capitalism, then Work Backwards: How to design the life you want will... Read more

Thunderhead (Miranda Darling, Scribe)

Released April 2024

Set over one fever-pitched day of errand-running, child-rearing, appointment-hopping and dinner-party prep in the suburbs, Thunderhead is about Winona Dalloway’s desperate desire to be free of her domestic shackles and... Read more

The Work (Bri Lee, A&U)

Released April 2024

Having tackled power, privilege and sexual politics in her nonfiction books, Eggshell Skull, Beauty and Who Gets to Be Smart, Bri Lee brings the same shrewd scrutiny to her debut novel,... Read more

Sanctuary (Garry Disher, Text)

Released April 2024

Grace has been stealing her whole life. She is an expert thief, taught by pros and specialising in small, high-value items, such as stamps and watches. However, a life of... Read more

Deep Water (James Bradley, Hamish Hamilton)

Released April 2024

The first chapter of Deep Water is named ‘The Word for World Is Water’, a reference to science fiction writer Ursula K Le Guin’s novella The Word for World Is... Read more

Italian Coastal (Amber Guinness, T&H)

Released April 2024

Amber Guinness’s Italian Coastal: Recipes and stories from where the land meets the sea takes readers on a tour of the seven Italian regions that sit on the Tyrrhenian Sea—places... Read more

The Glass House (Anne Buist & Graeme Simsion, Hachette)

Released April 2024

Graeme Simsion is well-known for The Rosie Project, and Anne Buist for her crime novels. Partners in real life, their new collaboration, The Glass House, showcases their talent and fields of interest where... Read more

It Takes a Town (Aoife Clifford, Ultimo)

Released April 2024

Aoife Clifford’s latest crime novel, It Takes a Town, is set in the fictional town of Welcome. This small town produced a superstar talent, Vanessa ‘Baby Vee’ Walton, who tap-danced... Read more

The Most Famous Boy in Town (Bel Schenk, Espresso)

Released April 2024

Bel Schenk’s latest work and her fourth publication, The Most Famous Boy in Town, delves into the intricate relationship dynamics in Charlotte Bay, a coastal community that unravels in the... Read more

Black Silk & Sympathy (Deborah Challinor, HarperCollins)

Released April 2024

Deborah Challinor’s latest offering, Black Silk & Sympathy, sweeps readers away to the intriguing world of Victorian funeral customs in 1860s Sydney. In this expertly crafted novel, Challinor delivers a... Read more