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Hannah & Emil (Belinda Castles, A&U)
Released September 2012
Hannah & Emil is the third novel from Vogel Literary Award winner Belinda Castles, and is inspired by the events of her grandparents’ lives. In a similar style to Anna... Read more
Pilgrimage (Jacinta Halloran, Scribe)
Released September 2012
Jacinta Halloran’s debut novel Dissection, about a female GP embroiled in a negligence suit and the personal devastation that followed, was published to critical acclaim in 2008. Pilgrimage again features... Read more
Bridge of Swords: Empire of Bones Book 1 (Duncan Lay, HarperVoyager)
Released September 2012
Duncan Lay’s latest book offers something for new and old readers. While it’s set in the same world as his previous ‘Dragon Sword Histories’ and features some of the same... Read more
American Stories: Tales of Hope and Anger (Michael Brissenden, UQP)
Released September 2012
ABC TV’s Michael Brissenden has written a sharply observed and hugely entertaining collection of essays on contemporary American life. He covers the expected turf—healthcare, the war on drugs, asylum seekers,... Read more
The Two Frank Thrings (Peter Fitzpatrick, Monash University Publishing)
Released September 2012
The rise of commercial cinema in Australia and the nascence of our independent film industry provide a fascinating backdrop to this meticulous academic biography of the two Frank Thrings, father... Read more
Try Whistling This: Writings on Music (Andrew Ford, Black Inc.)
Released August 2012
Andrew Ford is a composer, critic and broadcaster—he presents The Music Show on ABC Radio National—whose knowledge of and passion for music is evident in the 34 essays collected in... Read more
Money Shot: A Journey into Porn and Censorship (Jeff Sparrow, Scribe)
Released September 2012
In his investigation into the state of censorship in Australia, author and Overland editor Jeff Sparrow discusses anti-porn activists Gail Dines and Melinda Tankard-Reist, porn star Lexie Bell, Sexpo and... Read more
Foal’s Bread (Gillian Mears, A&U)
Released November 2011
It’s been 16 years since Gillian Mears published her last novel, The Grass Sister, which won the regional Commonwealth Prize for best book in 1996. The Mint Lawn won the... Read more
All That I Am (Anna Funder, Hamish Hamilton)
Released August 2011
Given the striking intelligence and originality that Anna Funder brought to the subject of the East German Secret Police in her award-winning Stasiland, it comes as no surprise to find... Read more
Cold Light (Frank Moorhouse, Vintage)
Released November 2011
In the final volume of Frank Moorhouse’s ‘Edith Trilogy’, former League of Nations officer Edith Campbell Berry has fallen on hard times: Canberra in the 1950s. As a married woman—albeit... Read more
Past the Shallows (Favel Parrett, Hachette)
Released May 2011
The wild coast of Tasmania provides a moody backdrop for this story of two young boys. Harry and his older brother Miles live in a tumbledown shack with their worn-down... Read more
Ten Tiny Things (Meg McKinlay, illus by Kyle Hughes-Odgers, Fremantle Press)
Released August 2012
Each day Tessa and Zachary travel to school in a ‘shiny machine’ that is ‘smooth and swift and splendiferous’. It’s the perfect way to travel to school, but when the... Read more
Slave Girl (Alexa Moses, HarperCollins)
Released August 2012
Fashion-obsessed Jenna Bookallil-Brown thought a two-month exchange trip to New York would be the perfect adventure, but one museum trip too many has left her with cultural overload. Hoping to... Read more
The Nerdy Ninjas vs the Really Really Bad Guys: Nerdy Ninjas 1 (Shogun Whamhower, illus by Heath McKenzie, Scholastic)
Released July 2012
Jake, Pongo, Veejay and Ben are about as nerdy as they come. In fact they are so nerdy that the most famous bully of all Crispin Staniforth—Financial Times reader and... Read more
Welcome to Normal (Nick Earls, Vintage)
Released July 2012
Welcome to Normal is the title of the opening story in a new collection of short stories by Nick Earls. Two men are on a business trip in Normal, Illinois,... Read more
To the Highlands (Jon Doust, Fremantle Press)
Released August 2012
What is a man and how does a boy become one? Jack Muir was searching for the answers to these questions in Boy on a Wire, the first book in... Read more
Darkness on the Edge of Town (Jessie Cole, Fourth Estate)
Released August 2012
Darkness on the Edge of Town is a fast-paced and tense novel. Vincent, a 40-year-old single dad, helps a young woman, Rachael, when she crashes her car outside his home.... Read more
Time Vandals (Craig Cormick, Omnibus)
Released July 2012
This foray into children's fiction by the historical author Craig Cormick has got everything: time travel, battle scenes, zombies, Napoleon, ninjas and haemorrhoids. Jack and Mei are recruited by Temporal... Read more
The Beloved (Annah Faulkner, Picador)
Released July 2012
Roberta ‘Bertie’ Lightfoot suffers from polio as a child, and is helped through it by her tough-minded mother, along with the paper and pencils given to her by her father.... Read more
Burning Lies (Helene Young, Michael Joseph)
Released July 2012
Helene Young is the recent winner of the Australian Romance Readers Association Favourite Romantic Suspense Award for her second novel Shattered Sky. Burning Lies is her third book and her... Read more
