The End and Everything Before It (Finegan Kruckemeyer, Text)
Fiction
Released July 2024, reviewed by Kate Frawley.
Moving, profound and deeply layered, The End and Everything Before It is a soulful debut novel from award-winning playwright Finegan Kruckemeyer....
Lost & Found (Tim Sharp, Pantera)
Nonfiction
Released July 2024, reviewed by Jacqui Davies.
Lost & Found is the latest book by author, speaker and leader of Australia’s positive psychology movement, Dr Tim Sharp...
What Do You Call Your Dad? (Ashleigh Barton, illus Martina Heiduczek, ABC Books)
Children’s picture book
Released July 2024, reviewed by Karys McEwen.
What Do You Call Your Dad? is a love letter to fathers by writer Ashleigh Barton (Freddie Spector, Fact Collector: Space...
Ella and the Amazing Frog Orchestra (Cassy Polimeni, illus Hykie Breeze, UWAP)
Younger readers
Released July 2024, reviewed by Angela Crocombe .
Ella and the Amazing Frog Orchestra by Cassy Polimeni (The Garden at the End of the World) is a beautifully...
Personal Logistics (Chris Palazzolo, Fremantle)
Poetry
Released July 2024, reviewed by Clare Millar.
Chris Palazzolo is a poet based in the East Kimberley region whose works have previously won the Viva La Novella...
The Book Star (Bec Nanayakkara, illus Joanna Bartel, Affirm)
Children’s picture book
Released July 2024, reviewed by M H Alessandrino.
The Book Star is a fun and engaging story about the importance of being yourself and following your interests. Centred...
The Mires (Tina Makereti, Ultimo)
Fiction
Released July 2024, reviewed by Ash Davida Jane .
Tina Makereti’s latest novel, The Mires, is a masterclass in social realism with just a touch of magic. Opening from...
Living Hot (Clive Hamilton & George Wilkenfeld, Hardie Grant Books)
Nonfiction
Released June 2024, reviewed by Jess Lomas.
Living Hot by Clive Hamilton (Silent Invasion) and independent energy consultant George Wilkenfeld, provides a stark assessment of Australia’s response to...
Leaf Letters (Lorena Carrington, Christmas Press)
Younger readers
Released July 2024, reviewed by Erin Wamala.
Nine-year-old Hazel Bird loves to explore her local area and collect little treasures. When her baby sister is born, she...
Return to Sender (Lauren Draper, Macmillan)
Young adult
Released July 2024, reviewed by Alida Galati.
A historical letter-writing mystery and searching for the missing ‘Adder Stone’ are two of the many compelling story arcs in...
A Language of Limbs (Dylin Hardcastle, Picador)
Fiction
Released July 2024, reviewed by Melissa Mantle.
Dylin Hardcastle’s tender and steamy third novel, A Language of Limbs, follows two sapphic young women (Limb One and Limb...
Raymaŋgirrbuy dhäwu, When I was a little girl (Kylie Gatjawarrawuy Mununggurr, Magabala)
Children’s picture book
Released July 2024, reviewed by Angela Meyer.
This beautiful book is written in dual languages: Dhuwal, also known as Djambarrpuyŋu (widely understood in north-east Arnhem Land), and...
Jade and Emerald (Michelle See-Tho, Vintage)
Fiction
Released January 1970, reviewed by Nadia Heisler.
Winner of the 2023 Penguin Literary Prize, Jade and Emerald is a portrait of what it means to grow up...
The Infant Vine (Isabella G Mead, UWAP)
Poetry
Released July 2024, reviewed by Denise Jarrott.
Isabella G Mead’s debut collection, The Infant Vine, speaks to the deeply elemental nature of motherhood. In these poems, the...
Outrider (Mark Wales, Macmillan)
Fiction
Released July 2024, reviewed by Fiona Hardy.
In Mark Wales’s debut novel, Outrider, China invades Australia, and the state of Victoria is now in the hands of enemy...
Wild About Book Week (Sarah Speedie, illus Kruti Desai, Larrikin House)
Children’s picture book
Released July 2024, reviewed by Angela Meyer.
Wild About Book Week is a meta-tale of sorts, which celebrates what has become an annual tradition for many families:...
Spiro (Anna McGregor, Scribble)
Children’s picture book
Released July 2024, reviewed by Karys McEwen .
Spiro is a humorous new picture book by Anna McGregor, the multi-award-winning creator of Anemone Is Not the Enemy. The protagonist is...
Always Was, Always Will Be (Aunty Fay Muir & Sue Lawson, Magabala)
Nonfiction
Released June 2024, reviewed by Angela Glindemann.
Always Was, Always Will Be is set to be an indispensable resource for young people looking to understand First Nations resistance...
Milk (Matthew Evans, Murdoch)
Nonfiction
Released July 2024, reviewed by Becca Whitehead.
Dairy milk is an odd battleground for political polarisation, yet it always seems to be one. Milk is an attempt to make...
Animal Activism On and Off Screen (ed by Claire Parkinson & Lara Herring, SUP)
Nonfiction
Released July 2024, reviewed by Anthony Morris.
Animal activists have been at the forefront of using the media to get their message out—and in turn, the media...
