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What’s Murder Between Friends (Meg Gatland-Veness, Pantera)
Released June 2024
Hallie has always dreamed of being an actor. Thanks to her drama teacher, Ms Lovelace, the school is finally putting on its first show. When Hallie’s class stumbles upon Ms... Read more
Love from Scratch (Amy Hutton, S&S)
Released June 2024
Amy Hutton’s new romance, Love from Scratch, reunites readers with the gorgeous actor Ethan from her previous book, Sit, Stay, Love. Ethan, once terribly fearful of dogs, is now filming... Read more
The Immortals of Australian Rugby Union (Gordon Bray, Gelding Street Press)
Released June 2024
The current crop of Wallabies may have lost their lustre, but Gordon Bray’s latest offering, The Immortals of Australian Rugby Union, harks back to a golden age of the sport.... Read more
How Babies Are Made (Philip Bunting, Scholastic)
Released June 2024
An engaging first look at human reproduction, How Babies Are Made features Philip Bunting’s signature friendly illustration style and the sense of humour common to both his fiction and nonfiction... Read more
Magic Counting (Nabeel Khan, illus Tete Garcia, Scribble)
Released June 2024
Magic Counting is a beautifully illustrated book that goes beyond the basics of counting, exploring the magic that can be found in the world of numbers. While counting from one... Read more
Drop into the Ocean (Karen Wasson, illus Marta Tesoro, Hardie Grant Explore)
Released June 2024
Drop into the Ocean: A tour of the world’s oceans and seas is exciting, colourful, entertaining and insightful. Packed with fun facts and well-researched information, it’s the type of book... Read more
What’s That? Australian mammals (Myke Mollard, Woodslane)
Released June 2024
This educational picture book for young children begins by telling us that every modern mammal descended from a common ancestor from around 180 million years ago, and that it’s up... Read more
Borderlands: Riding the Slipstream (ed by Paul Collins, Ford St)
Released June 2024
Borderlands: Riding the Slipstream is a new Australian anthology for young readers, collating over 40 short stories and poems by well-known children’s authors. Compiled by Paul Collins, who has previously... Read more
Dear Mutzi (Tess Scholfield-Peters, NLA)
Released June 2024
Tess Scholfield-Peters’ debut book, Dear Mutzi, is a narrative nonfiction account of her grandfather's experience in Nazi Germany. It powerfully describes how 18-year-old Hermann Pollnow fled Nazi Germany for rural... Read more
Heartsease (Kate Kruimink, Picador)
Released June 2024
Ellen 'Nelly' and Charlotte 'Lot' are as unalike as sisters come, yet they were once inseparable despite this. Lot is Nelly’s elder by eight years—an employment lawyer and single mother... Read more
Every Last Suspect (Nicola Moriarty, HarperCollins)
Released June 2024
Nicola Moriarty’s latest novel combines the domestic drama she’s known for with a compelling hook that will draw in mystery and thriller readers. Harriet Osman lies dying on the floor,... Read more
Because I Love Him (Ashlee Donohue, Magabala)
Released May 2024
Because I Love Him is an intelligent and insightful reply to the question, ‘Why are you with him?'. As a society, we're beginning to realise that it's the wrong question... Read more
Grace the Amazing (Aleesah Darlison, Wombat Books)
Released May 2024
This tender middle-grade novel by well-established children’s author Aleesah Darlison (who wrote the popular junior series League of Llamas) explores friendship, coming to terms with death, and finding the courage... Read more
A Small Collection of Happinesses (Zana Fraillon, illus Stephen Michael King, Lothian)
Released May 2024
In the first pages of acclaimed author Zana Fraillon’s A Small Collection of Happinesses, Ada is ‘blown in…and dumped… right at the front gates of number 9 Hawkhurst Lane’. I... Read more
Book of Hours (Clare McFadden, Walker)
Released May 2024
Book of Hours, written and illustrated by Clare McFadden (The Flying Orchestra), tells a life story in a series of dreamy vignettes. These postcard moments capture memories by the sea—of... Read more
Bright Objects (Ruby Todd, A&U)
Released May 2024
Sylvia Knight works at a funeral home—the same one that buried her husband after an unsolved hit-and-run. Two years on, she has given herself ‘permission to finally leave this planet’... Read more
Suddenly Single at Sixty (Jo Peck, Text)
Released May 2024
Not long after Jo Peck’s 60th birthday, her husband drops a bombshell—he’s leaving her for a (much) younger woman. She is shocked and heartbroken that the life she’d worked towards—full... Read more
The Lost Letters of Rose Carey (Julie Bennett, S&S)
Released May 2024
Inspired by the life of the Australian swimmer and film icon Annette Kellerman, The Lost Letters of Rose Carey follows two heroines: Emma Quinn, in the present time, and Rose Carey, in... Read more
Love & Rome (Jenna Lo Bianco, Macmillan)
Released June 2024
Stella Chiaro is an Australian-Italian artist trying to find her place in the eternal city. With a one-way ticket back to Australia and dwindling funds, Stella has six months left... Read more
Boots (Elizabeth Pulsford, illus Krista Brennan, Wombat Books)
Released May 2024
The idea of walking in someone else’s shoes to evoke understanding and empathy is not a new concept, but Elizabeth Pulsford takes it further in her debut picture book, Boots,... Read more
