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How to Go to Big School (Sarah Ayoub, illus Mimi Purnell, HarperCollins)
Released December 2025
After the success of How to Be a Friend, Sarah Ayoub and Mimi Purnell return with another heartfelt guide. How to Go to Big School offers practical tips for children aged... Read more
The Very Stinky Fly Hunt (Andrea Wild, illus Karen Erasmus, CSIRO Publishing)
Released November 2025
The Very Stinky Fly Hunt is a lively and humorous narrative nonfiction picture book inspired by the work of real-life dipterist (fly expert) Keith Bayless. Andrea Wild takes children on an... Read more
Softly Calls the Devil (Chris Blake, Echo)
Released November 2025
Prologues in crime novels are often inscrutable until the climax, but Chris Blake’s Softly Calls the Devil wastes no time and immediately hooks readers with an unexpected shoot-out at a traffic... Read more
This Is Us: Essential Poems for Young People (ed Libby Hathorn & Jude Fell, illus Tull Suwannakit, NLA Publishing)
Released November 2025
In This Is Us: Essential Poems for Young People, editors Libby Hathorn and Jude Fell bring together writers from around Australia in a companion volume to the enduringly popular This... Read more
Swallow (Alexandria Burnham, WestWords)
Released November 2025
In Swallow, Alexandria Burnham delivers a compelling work of historical fiction inspired by the documented prison escapes of sailor and petty thief William ‘Swallow’ Walker. Sentenced in 1820 to transportation to... Read more
Provecho: Real Mexican Food at Home (Daniella Guevara Muñoz, Murdoch)
Released November 2025
Author and cook Daniella Guevara Muñoz brings the flavours of her childhood in Mexico City to life in Provecho: Real Mexican Food at Home, with co-writer David Knight. Guevara Muñoz, who runs... Read more
The Transformations (Andrew Pippos, Picador)
Released November 2025
Andrew Pippos’ The Transformations is a reflective and introspective novel for lovers of the written word, tracing the gentle and at times unforgiving arc of a life lived in the... Read more
The Art of Kaylene Whiskey: Do You Believe in Love? (ed Natalie King & Iwantja Arts, T&H)
Released November 2025
To open The Art of Kaylene Whiskey: Do You Believe in Love? is to tumble into a kaleidoscopic world of colour, energy and cultural references. Edited by Natalie King and... Read more
Sundays Under the Lemon Tree (Julia Busuttil Nishimura, illus Myo Yim, Scribble)
Released November 2025
Best known for her cookbooks, Julia Busuttil Nishimura has released a debut picture book, Sundays Under the Lemon Tree, a cheerful story inspired by her own childhood. The unnamed narrator shares how... Read more
Rivers Flow: Reflections on the Songs of Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter (curated by Kim Scott, ed by Casey Mulder, Fremantle)
Released November 2025
Rivers Flow: Reflections on the Songs of Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter is a collection of writing as deeply personal and political as the music that inspired it. Curated and... Read more
Wirrawoorliny/Whirlwind (Kim Scott, Cass Lynch & Wirlomin Noongar Language and Stories Project, illus Monique Farmer, UWA Publishing)
Released November 2025
Wirrawoorliny/Whirlwind sweeps readers onto Noongar Country, where a boy is eaten by a djanak (devil) and later put back together by a mysterious whirlwind. It is ‘an old story retold’... Read more
Collision (Kelvin Templeton, Wilkinson Publishing)
Released November 2025
Kevin Templeton’s debut novel, Collision, transports readers to Melbourne during the 1970s and 1980s and into the world of 20-year-old Joshua Shamrock, whose life revolves around football, sex and booze. Raised in... Read more
Mega! Australia’s Megafauna (Laura Holloway, illus by Liz Duthie, Wild Dog)
Released November 2025
Move over, dinosaurs – Australia’s megafauna are stomping in with Laura Holloway’s Mega! Australia’s Megafauna. In this engaging and appealing nonfiction picture book, giant echidnas, kangaroos, pythons and many more... Read more
The Hiding Place (Kate Mildenhall, Scribner)
Released November 2025
No stranger to the literary scene, Kate Mildenhall (The Mother Fault, Skylarking, The Hummingbird Effect) returns with The Hiding Place, an eminently readable and vividly imagined novel. Four families seeking... Read more
Yes, No, Maybe (Ursula Dubosarsky, illus Andrew Joyner, Little Book Press)
Released November 2025
Children are inquisitive – they wonder, observe and ask questions. In Yes, No, Maybe, acclaimed collaborators Ursula Dubosarsky and Andrew Joyner (The Terrible Plop, Too Many Elephants in This House)... Read more
Escape from Sherwood (Beattie Alvarez, illus David Allan, Christmas Press)
Released November 2025
Something lurks just beyond the screen in Beattie Alvarez’s Escape from Sherwood, as Michael enters into a retro-style video game alongside his sister, his best friend, and a girl who... Read more
beautiful changelings (Maxine Beneba Clarke, Ultimo)
Released November 2025
According to myth, a changeling is a human child replaced by a faerie – one that looks similar enough, but is not of this world. In beautiful changelings, Maxine Beneba Clarke... Read more
Not Quite White in the Head (Melissa Lucashenko, UQP)
Released November 2025
Melissa Lucashenko’s Not Quite White in the Head shines a light on the beauty and pain that exist simultaneously in Australia as a colonised nation. Spanning 20 pieces, the book... Read more
Outback Country: A Collection of Short Stories from Cunnamulla (Kids from Cunnamulla, ILF)
Released November 2025
Outback Country by Kids from Cunnamulla is a spirited collection of short stories that capture life in the town through children’s eyes. Produced through the Indigenous Literacy Foundation’s Community Publishing... Read more
Mary Penfold (Grantlee Kieza, HarperCollins)
Released November 2025
Grantlee Kieza’s Mary Penfold is an intriguing biography of the Englishwoman who embraced her husband’s vision, made it her own, and turned their vineyard into one of Australia’s most enduring... Read more
