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Prize Catch (Alan Carter, Fremantle)
Released October 2024
Alan Carter’s latest crime novel, Prize Catch, is a page-turning thrill ride set on Australia’s Emerald Isle. With the action taking place in Hobart and its surrounds, and brimming with... Read more
A Song to Drown Rivers (Ann Liang, Macmillan)
Released October 2024
A Song to Drown Rivers is a bold departure from Ann Liang’s critically acclaimed YA rom-com novels (This Time It’s Real, I Hope This Doesn’t Find You, If You Could... Read more
Double Happiness (Rochelle Siemienowicz, MidnightSun)
Released October 2024
In Double Happiness, journalist and film critic Rochelle Siemienowicz explores the intricacies, challenges and taboos surrounding polyamory and ethical non-monogamy (ENM). Set in Melbourne between 2014 and the Covid lockdown... Read more
Game On (Prank Wars #1) (Louise Park & Mo Johnson, illus Jules Faber, Larrikin)
Released October 2024
If Game On is any indication, Louise Park and Mo Johnson’s new series, Prank Wars, will be a hit with middle-grade readers who are high in energy and imagination. It’s a... Read more
Twenty-Two Impressions (Jessica Friedmann, Scribe)
Released October 2024
For years, Jessica Friedmann (Things That Helped) circled the tarot, feeling a combination of mild embarrassment, curiosity and intellectual bewilderment when a pack was inevitably drawn at the end of... Read more
Stand Proud (Nicho Hynes with Marlee Silva, illus Blak Douglas, Puffin)
Released October 2024
Stand Proud is a picture book that shares one man's powerful story of self-discovery during childhood. Wiradjuri author and rugby league star Nicho Hynes tells his story with the help... Read more
Giinagay Juluum, Hello Mountains (Melissa Greenwood, ABC Books)
Released October 2024
Following the success of Miimi Marraal, Mother Earth, and Miimi and Buwaarr, Mother and Baby, the latest picture book by Melissa Greenwood (Giinagay Gaagal, Hello Ocean) is a vivid storytelling... Read more
No One Will Know (Rose Carlyle, Text)
Released October 2024
Pregnant, homeless, and alone, 24-year-old Eve Sylvester is faced with a desperate future when a meeting at her dead fiancé’s gravesite offers a chance too glorious to refuse: nannying for... Read more
Dusk (Robbie Arnott, Picador)
Released October 2024
In his fourth novel, Dusk, Robbie Arnott returns to familiar terrain. ‘Dusk’ is the name the highland graziers have given to a puma who has begun to ‘take’ shepherds and... Read more
Shapeshifting (ed by Jeanine Leane & Ellen van Neerven, UQP)
Released October 2024
In UQP’s new First Nations anthology, Shapeshifting, Daniel Browning meditates on the significance of the fact that there is no Bundjalung word for queer; Alison Whittaker intimately dissects the shifting... Read more
My Dad’s Gone Away (Andrew Krakouer & Jacqueline Dinan, illus Paul Seden, Magabala)
Released October 2024
My Dad’s Gone Away by Minang (Nyoongar) and Inggarda (Yamatji) author Andrew Krakouer and former foster carer Jacqueline Dinan is a sensitive exploration of a family navigating the incarceration of... Read more
The Ledge (Christian White, Affirm)
Released October 2024
When reading author and screenwriter Christian White’s fourth novel, The Ledge, it’s worth remembering the adage: ‘When you assume, you make an ass of u and me.’ As a seasoned... Read more
Matia (Emily Tsokos Purtill, UWA Publishing)
Released October 2024
Emily Tsokos Purtill’s debut novel, Matia, is a generational story that follows the lives of four Greek women in Australia over 125 years. Sia emigrated from Greece to Perth in... Read more
Dig Deep (Junkyard Fairies #1) (Edwina Wyatt, illus Lauren O’Hara, Walker)
Released October 2024
Deep in a quiet scrap heap on the edge of a forest live the junkyard fairies: Fur, Tip and Nug. Dig Deep is the first in the new Junkyard Fairies... Read more
Sabina and the Cats of Rome (Sophie Masson, illus Laura Wood, Christmas Press)
Released October 2024
Sabina and the Cats of Rome, a light fantasy chapter book for readers aged 6 to 9, packs adventure, action, mystery, love and fun into its pages. Sophie Masson (The... Read more
To Stir with Love (Kate Mildenhall, illus Jess Racklyeft, S&S)
Released October 2024
To Stir with Love by Kate Mildenhall (The Hummingbird Effect, The Mother Fault) and illustrator Jess Racklyeft (Tree, Australia: Country of Colour) is a beautiful picture book that’s sure to... Read more
Karkalla at Home (Mindy Woods, Murdoch)
Released September 2024
Karkalla at Home: Native foods & everyday recipes for connecting to Country by Mindy Woods is a remarkable cookbook showcasing contemporary recipes with native Australian ingredients. The book ‘extends an... Read more
Townsend of the Ranges (Peter Crowley, NLA)
Released September 2024
In Townsend of the Ranges, Peter Crowley pieces together from archival materials the biography of Thomas Scott Townsend (1812–1869), a surveyor previously forgotten by history. With the voice of a... Read more
The Audition (Stage Stars #1) (Penny McNamee, Scholastic)
Released September 2024
The Audition, the first book in actor Penny McNamee’s Stage Star series, introduces us to Millie Von Trapp, an enthusiastic but lonely Year 6 student whose immediate family are all... Read more
Zoom (Dannika Patterson, illus Ross Morgan, Ford St)
Released September 2024
Dannika Patterson’s Zoom is a touching story about a boy named Tom. After a bad day at school, Tom comes home upset and withdrawn. Although he initially shuts his mum... Read more
