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The Comedienne’s Guide To Pride (Hayli Thomson, HarperCollins)
Released June 2022
The only phrase you’ll need to get this debut into the hands of avid YA readers will be ‘Sapphic rom-com’—but there’s a lot more to this novel that will capture... Read more
Open Your Heart to Country (Jasmine Seymour, Magabala)
Released June 2022
Open Your Heart to Country is the stunning fourth picture book from Dharug woman and award-winning author/illustrator Jasmine Seymour. It’s a story of welcome and belonging told in two languages,... Read more
Black River (Matthew Spencer, A&U)
Released June 2022
He’s been dubbed the Blue Moon Killer: someone who has been killing young women along Sydney’s Parramatta River whenever the moon is full. Sydney is on edge, and the cops,... Read more
The Making of Her (Bernadette Jiwa, Bantam)
Released June 2022
The Making of Her is a historical family drama that immediately conjures the sense of a time not so long ago. Spanning the 1960s to the 1990s, this cross between... Read more
Hard Joy: Life and writing (Susan Varga, Upswell)
Released June 2022
Susan Varga spent the first half of her life having affairs with inappropriate men, including some of the older leading lights of the libertarian Sydney Push. At the same time,... Read more
Daughters of Durga: Dowries, gender violence and family in Australia (Manjula Datta O’Connor, MUP)
Released June 2022
With Daughters of Durga, author, psychiatrist and campaigner Manjula Datta O'Connor has written an impassioned and empathetic treatise on the abuses of a patriarchal system. It may surprise readers to... Read more
Horse (Geraldine Brooks, Hachette)
Released June 2022
Four decades after covering horse racing as a cadet reporter for the Sydney Morning Herald, award-winning novelist Geraldine Brooks has returned to the track. Her latest book is based on... Read more
A Feather on a Wing (Maria Speyer, UQP)
Released June 2022
The darkness of night is a common fear for many children trying to get to sleep after lights-out. The dark can make you feel alone and separated from everyone, even... Read more
When Only One (Meg Gatland-Veness, Pantera)
Released June 2022
Everything changes when Sam’s one-time best friend Emily appears outside his window for the first time in five years. He knows why she’s back and it isn’t good. The story... Read more
Our Members Be Unlimited (Sam Wallman, Scribe)
Released June 2022
Unionism is about more than your rights at work. It is something greater even than a form of politics at the point of production: union struggle is composed of those... Read more
Hip Hop & Hymns (Mawunyo Gbogbo, Penguin)
Released June 2022
Hip Hop & Hymns is a beautiful and heart-wrenching memoir by Mawunyo Gbogbo, music and pop culture reporter for the ABC. Gbogbo begins her story in Ghana, where her parents... Read more
The Eulogy (Jackie Bailey, Hardie Grant)
Released June 2022
The Eulogy by Jackie Bailey is at once sprawling and intimate: it’s a novel of race, disability, trauma, poverty, abuse and maternal rage that takes place over the course of... Read more
What We All Saw (Mike Lucas, Puffin)
Released June 2022
In a small English country town in the 1970s, four friends make their way to the local quarry, a place where stories of witches and curses are born. Hag’s Drop,... Read more
An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life (Paul Dalla Rosa, A&U)
Released June 2022
The fiction of Melbourne-based Paul Dalla Rosa has been published in the Paris Review, Granta, McSweeney's and Meanjin. His debut book, An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life, contains 10 short... Read more
The Museum of Broken Things (Lauren Draper, Text)
Released June 2022
The concise opening of Lauren Draper’s debut YA novel immediately had me hooked: a new town, a mysterious statue and a curse all make for intriguing storylines. In The Museum... Read more
Swimming Home (Judy Cotton, Black Inc.)
Released June 2022
Judy Cotton is an internationally celebrated visual artist who has work in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Gallery of Australia. Her father, Sir Robert... Read more
My Spare Heart (Jared Thomas, A&U)
Released June 2022
There’s a lot to unpack in this YA novel, which covers issues including alcoholism, climate change, divorce and racism. At the centre of it all is 17-year-old Phoebe. She is... Read more
Old Fellow (Christopher Cheng, illus by Liz Anelli, Walker)
Released June 2022
Old Fellow, written by Christopher Cheng and illustrated by Liz Anelli, is a warm, simple and engaging story of an old man and his old dog. Which one of the... Read more
Katerina Cruickshanks (Daniel Gray-Barnett, Scribble)
Released May 2022
Daniel Gray-Barnett’s playful second book as both author and illustrator tells a cautionary tale about exiling exuberance and individuality. Katerina Cruickshanks’ wild and inventive approach to the world becomes too... Read more
How to Spell Catastrophe (Fiona Wood, Pan)
Released May 2022
Fiona Wood, three-time winner of the CBCA Book of the Year for Older Readers, moves into middle-grade fiction with the funny and charming How to Spell Catastrophe. Nell McPherson is... Read more
