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The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies (Alison Goodman, HarperCollins)
Released June 2023
The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies by Alison Goodman is a joyous romp through Regency England that is equally entertaining, revealing, feminist, heartbreaking and humorous. Our protagonist, Lady Augusta, is... Read more
Feast (Emily O’Grady, A&U)
Released June 2023
Like her Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award-winning debut The Yellow House, Emily O’Grady’s Feast is a compelling but often uncomfortable work of literary fiction. In a secluded manor house in the Scottish... Read more
The Interpreter (Brooke Robinson, Harvill Secker)
Released June 2023
Revelle Lee is a court interpreter in London. She spends her days translating the words of victims, criminals and witnesses. It’s her job to inhabit them, wear their skin and... Read more
Sunshine on Vinegar Street (Karen Comer, A&U Children’s)
Released June 2023
Everything in Freya’s world has changed. Her dad has taken a job in Broome for the next 18 months and her mum has a new job in the inner-city Melbourne... Read more
Monsties #1: The Lost Bunny (Zanni Louise & Kyla May, HGCP)
Released June 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,... Read more
We Need to Talk About Ageing (Melissa Levi, Hachette)
Released June 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... Read more
The Archipelago of Us (Reneé Pettitt-Schipp, Fremantle Press)
Released June 2023
Originally written as part of Reneé Pettitt-Schipp’s PhD thesis, The Archipelago of Us is a moving travel memoir mixed with a reflective story of trauma and healing. Pettitt-Schipp decided to... Read more
Sad Girl Novel (Pip Finkemeyer, Ultimo)
Released June 2023
When we first meet aspiring writer Kim Mueller, she’s taking a train through Berlin, on her way to see her therapist. She’s wondering if she’s ‘talented or deluded’. She has... Read more
Queen Narelle (Sally Murphy, illus by Simon O’Carrigan, Walker)
Released June 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... Read more
Birdie Lights Up the World (Alison McLennan, illus by Lauren Mullinder, EK Books)
Released June 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... Read more
Backyard Footy (Carl Merrison, illus by Samantha Campbell, Lothian)
Released June 2023
Kicking the footy around in your backyard is fun, but playing with mates is even better! Jaru/Kija author Carl Merrison and illustrator Samantha Campbell score big with their lively, cumulative... Read more
Sunday Skating (Andrea Rowe, illus by Hannah Sommerville, HGCP)
Released June 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... Read more
Notes on Her Colour (Jennifer Neal, Vintage)
Released June 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... Read more
Minds of Sand and Light (Kylie Chan, Voyager AU)
Released June 2023
Two rebel journalists get caught up in a conflict between secretive AIs in this new cyberpunk thriller. Minds of Sand and Light is set some 50 years in the future:... Read more
Trump’s Australia (Bruce Wolpe, A&U)
Released June 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... Read more
Sensational Sharks (Tim Flannery & Emma Flannery, illus by Katie Melrose, HGCP)
Released June 2023
The latest book by scientists Tim Flannery and Emma Flannery delves into similar territory as Flannery's 'Explore Your World' series, but is pitched at a younger age group. Giving the... Read more
Search History (Amy Taylor, A&U)
Released May 2023
Most of us have left some kind of regrettable imprint on the internet. It’s with this discarded online ephemera that anxiety swells about what people may make of it all—including... Read more
Monster Island (George Ivanoff, Puffin)
Released June 2023
When Bernie’s mother gets a top-secret new job, it seems too good to be true. So instead of staying behind with his aunt, Bernie decides instead to sneak along—and it’s... Read more
Where I Slept (Libby Angel, Text)
Released June 2023
Where I Slept, by award-winning poet and author Libby Angel, is a sharp and sobering piece of autofiction that follows a struggling, unnamed poet/artist living on the margins in 1990s... Read more
Media Monsters (Sally Young, NewSouth)
Released June 2023
After breaking through to the mainstream with her 2019 Stella Prize-longlisted book Paper Emperors, academic Sally Young continues to expose the dark interplay between Australian media and politics with Media... Read more
