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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
Frances Bloom (Frances Bloom #1) (Katrina Nannestad, illus Marina Zlatanova, HarperCollins)
Released November 2025
Children’s literature powerhouse Katrina Nannestad (All the Beautiful Things) returns with Frances Bloom, a delightful beginning to a new series. Eight-year-old Frances has posted her parents to the South Sandwich... Read more
Chosen Family (Madeleine Gray, Summit Books)
Released November 2025
Warning: Clear your schedule for the all-consuming read that is Madeleine Gray’s second novel, Chosen Family. Set over 18 years, the novel follows Sydney friends Eve and Nell from high... Read more
Stories about Fire, Wind, the Moon and other Dreamings: Warinypa wariny Mangunyjajamuwarr wirlarrapa wangalpa wika (Solomon Cocky, ed Barbara Hale & Inge Kral, UWA Publishing)
Released November 2025
Stories about Fire, Wind, the Moon and other Dreamings: Warinypa wariny Mangunyjaja muwarr wirlarrapa wangalpa wika is a newly edited collection of Nyangumarta narratives by Solomon Cocky and his father.... Read more
Eros: Queer Myths for Lovers (Zoe Terakes, Hachette)
Released November 2025
Zoe Terakes’ debut, Eros: Queer Myths for Lovers, retells five ancient Greek myths, drawing on the richness of their Cretan heritage to celebrate the long lineage of queer storytelling. Some stories... Read more
A Murder is Going Down (Kate Emery, A&U Children’s)
Released November 2025
Kate Emery (My Family and Other Suspects, The Not So Chosen One) returns with a mystery within a mystery in A Murder is Going Down, while remaining true to her... Read more
Last One Out (Jane Harper, Macmillan)
Released October 2025
When 21-year-old Sam Crowley disappears in Carralon Ridge, his footprints are found scattered around three abandoned houses. Five years later, his mother, Ro, returns to town for the annual memorial... Read more
