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One Boy Missing (Stephen Orr, Text)
Released February 2014
Detective Sergeant Bart Moy has given up on life. His young son is dead (in an accident, it is slowly revealed) and his wife has divorced him. He’s retreated to... Read more
The Yellow Papers (Dominique Wilson, Transit Lounge)
Released March 2014
The first full-length novel from short story writer Dominique Wilson is a sorrowful but captivating historical epic, and a unique view of the formation of modern China. Spanning nine decades,... Read more
The Dealer is the Devil (Adrian Newstead, Brandl & Schlesinger)
Released February 2014
The Dealer is the Devil could have been called Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Aboriginal Art. Adrian Newstead started selling Indigenous art in Sydney in 1981 and I... Read more
Inside Trader (Trader Faulkner, Scribe)
Released February 2014
Born in Sydney—to a Ballets Russes ballerina improbably named Sheila and a larrikin silent-movie actor, John—young Ronald Faulkner earned his sobriquet after trading back his lost marbles for a whiff... Read more
The Italians at Cleat’s Corner Store (Jo Riccioni, Scribe)
Released March 2014
Connie is dissatisfied with village life and feels the smallness of Leyton closing in on her future, which seems to consist mainly of listening to village gossip while serving customers... Read more
Coming of Age: Australian Muslim Stories (ed by Amra Pajalic & Demet Divaroren, A&U)
Released February 2014
Coming of Age is the kind of book that will change how readers look at the world, at others and themselves. This anthology of real-life stories from Australian Muslim authors... Read more
My Two Blankets (Irena Kobold, illus by Freya Blackwood, Little Hare)
Released February 2014
Cartwheel and her auntie have to leave their country because of a war, and end up in ‘this country to be safe’. The country feels strange, the people are strange,... Read more
Nymph: The Love Oracles Book 1 (Tonya Alexandra, Walker Books)
Released January 1970
When star nymph Merope is banished from Olympus for spurning the advances of her would-be suitor Orion, she can’t imagine ever fitting into this strange place where ‘hot’ means attractive... Read more
Lilli-Pilli’s Sister (Anna Branford, illus by Linda Catchlove, Walker Books)
Released February 2013
Bringing a new child into a family is always an exciting (if fraught) occasion and this book presents the event with a slight twist: the family look pretty much like... Read more
On Cringila Hill (Noel Beddoe, UQP)
Released November 2013
A gritty story about drug wars, drive-bys, sexual assault and long-buried secrets, Noel Beddoe’s latest novel draws loosely on real events and is set in and around the Wollongong suburb... Read more
Koombana Days (Annie Boyd, Fremantle Press)
Released December 2013
A century ago, there weren’t many roads in Australia, and outside the main cities and the south-eastern states, what railways there were tended to run inland from ports rather than... Read more
The Grass Castle (Karen Viggers, A&U)
Released February 2014
Karen Viggers, author of the successful The Lightkeeper’s Wife and The Stranding, has penned this new tale of two women, generations apart, set in the evocative bush of the Brindabella... Read more
Infidelity (Hugh Mackay, Pan Macmillan)
Released December 2013
Infidelity has an intriguing plot but struggles to live up to its promise. It is the story of Australian psychologist Tom Harper, whose dalliance with a patient has resulted in... Read more
The Kensington Reptilarium (N J Gemmell, Random House)
Released November 2013
December, 1945. When their father goes missing in mysterious circumstances, the four Caddy children are uprooted from their lives in outback Australia and taken to London to live with an... Read more
The Year My Life Broke (John Marsden, Macmillan)
Released December 2013
Twelve-year-old Josh is highly unimpressed when his family packs up and moves to Tarrawagga, the most boring town in Australia. Determined not to enjoy himself at his new school, he... Read more
These Broken Stars: The Starbound Trilogy (Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner, A&U)
Released December 2013
Society princess Lilac LaRoux and war hero from the wrong side of the tracks Tarver Merendsen lock eyes across the room during yet another party aboard the luxury space liner... Read more
Almost Dead (Kaz Delaney, A&U)
Released January 2014
What do you do if you wake up in the dead of night to see a spirit standing by your bed … and he’s really, really hot? Such is the... Read more
Bitter Wash Road (Garry Disher, Text)
Released November 2013
Garry Disher’s new novel is a rewarding mix of small-town policing and corruption, parish politics, vested interests and the closing of ranks against an outsider. The outsider in question is... Read more
Bloodline: Heritage Trilogy Book One (Alan Gold & Mike Jones, S&S)
Released November 2013
A Palestinian youth is shot while trying to bomb the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem, and his Israeli doctor discovers that they share a common bloodline. A Jewish operative plots... Read more
Eyrie (Tim Winton, Hamish Hamilton, October)
Released November 2013
Tim Winton is an outstanding writer, whose distinctive originality has never been more evident than in his newest novel, Eyrie. He has always been interested in characters whose lives are... Read more
