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Gazing at the Stars: Memories of a Child Survivor (Eva Slonim, Black Inc.)
Released January 1970
Eva Slonim was a 13-year-old girl when Nazis invaded her home in Bratislava in 1939 and tore apart her happy family and her life. Now, at the age of 83,... Read more
Captives (Angela Meyer, Inkerman & Blunt)
Released May 2014
In her first book of fiction, writer and literary journalist Angela Meyer demonstrates her gift for painting vivid pictures with a few adroit, restrained brush strokes. ‘Few’ being the operative word here—with... Read more
The Trouble with Flying and Other Stories (ed by Richard Rossiter & Susan Midalia, Margaret River Press)
Released May 2014
Outlets for new short stories seem to dwindle every year, which makes the Margaret River Short Story Competition a welcome proposition. The fruits of a partnership between the Margaret River Readers... Read more
A War of Words: The Man Who Talked 4000 Japanese into Surrender (Hamish McDonald, UQP)
Released May 2014
A War of Words delves into the military history of Asia in the early 20th century through the life story of Charles Bavier. A man of astonishing military and diplomatic... Read more
Telling True Stories: The Power and the Pitfalls of Writing Narrative Non-fiction (Matthew Ricketson, A&U)
Released April 2014
Matthew Ricketson (Writing Feature Stories, 2004) is professor of journalism at the University of Canberra and has worked as a journalist at the Age, the Australian and Time Australia. Writing... Read more
Flashbacks from the Flow Zone (Tom Crago, Hardie Grant)
Released May 2014
Tom Crago’s Flashbacks from the Flow Zone is ostensibly a memoir about work and travel in the just-connecting days of the early millennium. Global business and pleasure mix in heady... Read more
Tiddas (Anita Heiss, Simon & Schuster)
Released March 2014
Prolific author and academic Anita Heiss has created a fascinating subgenre of popular women’s fiction, dubbed ‘choc-lit’, as a way of celebrating Australia’s Indigenous culture and promoting it to a... Read more
Stormswept (Shannon Curtis, Pan Macmillan)
Released April 2014
Fans of The Bold and the Beautiful won’t be disappointed with Momentum’s tie-in with the popular daytime soap. Stormswept sees Hope Logan and long-time friend and former flame, Oliver, travelling... Read more
No Limit (Holly Childs, Hologram)
Released April 2014
Ash’s flight out of Auckland is grounded by an erupting volcano, so she heads back into the city. With her new friends, she visits the drive-in for a disaster-movie marathon,... Read more
Lick: Stage Dive 1 (Kylie Scott, Pan Macmillan)
Released May 2014
Kylie Scott is a USA Today bestselling romance author who lives in Queensland. I mention this because her latest book is firmly set in the US—Las Vegas, LA and Portland.... Read more
Joyful (Robert Hillman, Text)
Released February 2014
At the beginning of Joyful, Tess, wife of the asexual Leon and lover of many men, dies. The reader then learns of their courtship, where Leon dresses Tess in glamorous... Read more
The Bush Book Club (Margaret Wild, illus by Ben Wood, Scholastic)
Released March 2014
Some children can be reluctant readers, and this picture book is a great resource for parents and teachers to encourage page-turning habits. As the name suggests, every animal in the... Read more
Foreign Soil (Maxine Beneba Clarke, Hachette)
Released May 2014
Recently, and rather controversially, a reviewer of Black Inc.’s Best Australian Stories 2013 complained that overall there was little that was memorable or stuck in the mind amidst last year’s... Read more
The N00bz: New Adventures in Literature (if:book Australia, Editia)
Released May 2014
In 2013, if:book Australia challenged 14 Australian writers to try a new professional experience, to become a beginner (or Noob) again, and then to write about the experience for futureofthebook.org.au.... Read more
Dangerous Allies (Malcolm Fraser, MUP)
Released May 2014
Former prime minister Malcolm Fraser argues that for too long Australia has relied on what he terms ‘strategic dependence’. Rather than set our own course on defence strategy and foreign... Read more
The Colonial Journals: And the Emergence of Australian Literary Culture (Ken Gelder & Rachael Weaver, UWA Publishing)
Released May 2014
Academics Rachael Weaver and Ken Gelder have trawled through the archives of colonial Australia’s journals to reproduce articles, stories, poems and editorials documenting the emergence of Australia’s literary culture. Each... Read more
Tapestry (Fiona McIntosh, HarperCollins)
Released May 2014
Fiona McIntosh is certainly prolific; she has written over 25 adult novels and six young-adult novels spanning several genres. Her new novel Tapestry blends historical fiction and fantasy. It starts... Read more
The Strays (Emily Bitto, Affirm Press)
Released May 2014
Following Emily Bitto’s shortlisting for the 2013 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript, The Strays became one of the most highly anticipated debuts of 2014—and it certainly lives... Read more
The Promise (Tony Birch, UQP)
Released May 2014
This impressive new collection from the author of Blood (2011) introduces a host of peculiarly Australian outsiders: émigrés, kids, ex-cons and other lost souls, from vagabond ‘blackfellas’ to cuckolded husbands.... Read more
The Blue Mile (Kim Kelly, Pan Macmillan)
Released May 2014
The latest novel from Kim Kelly (Black Diamonds, This Red Earth) is an engaging, entertaining read set in 1930s Sydney against the backdrop of the building of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.... Read more
