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Fridays with My Folks (Amal Awad, Vintage)
Released February 2019
In her fifth nonfiction book, journalist Amal Awad investigates ageing in Australia from her perspective as an adult daughter grappling with a parent’s decline. Woven into her analysis is the... Read more
Rapture’s Roadway (Virginia Jealous, Peter Bishop)
Released February 2019
Author Virginia Jealous is a travel writer for Lonely Planet and a published poet in her own right, but in Rapture's Roadway, she pursues her late father’s lifelong obsession with... Read more
Accidental Feminists (Jane Caro, MUP)
Released February 2019
Jane Caro grew up in Australia in the 1960s and 1970s—the heyday of second-wave feminism. In her latest work of nonfiction, she paints a picture of the everyday women and... Read more
Invented Lives (Andrea Goldsmith, Scribe)
Released February 2019
On the streets of St Petersburg in 1985, Galina bumps into Andrew, an irrevocably shy Australian artist. Soon, she is on a plane to Melbourne in search of freedom. As... Read more
Stella the Unstoppable: The Talent Show Fiasco (Richard Newsome, Affirm)
Released February 2019
Richard Newsome is known for action-packed adventure tales like his Text Prize-winning ‘Billionaire’ series, but his newest series, ‘Stella the Unstoppable’, is a little bit of a departure. Aimed at... Read more
Fish Kid and the Lizard Ninja (Kylie Howarth, Walker Books)
Released February 2019
Bodhi is a boy who travels the world with his parents (a scientist and a photographer) as they study marine environments, in this case the Galapagos Islands. He would much... Read more
Gorski’s Bitemare (Robert Favretto, illus by Danny Willis, Ford St)
Released February 2019
Gorski Dragonovski lives with his mum and dad and his sister Drusella. Their home is a castle outside of town and they sleep all day, in coffins. Gorski and his... Read more
Tilly Maguire and the Royal Wedding Mess (Emma Grey, HarperCollins)
Released January 2019
Author Emma Grey declares this gloriously soapy book an ‘unapologetic fairytale’. Grey has fun with classic fairytale elements as well as modern pop culture: indeed, the book features run-ins with... Read more
Melody Trumpet (Gabrielle Tozer, HarperCollins)
Released January 2019
Melody’s parents are world-famous musicians (and narcissistic bores) who expect their only daughter to have inherited their incredible talent, but poor Melody can’t play any instruments and sounds like a... Read more
The Day We Built the Bridge (Samantha Tidy, illus by Fiona Burrows, MidnightSun)
Released February 2019
Samantha Tidy and Fiona Burrows take the creation of a national icon, the Sydney Harbour Bridge, and strip it back to a streamlined, succinct story of a need, an idea... Read more
Fusion (Kate Richards, Hamish Hamilton)
Released February 2019
Kate Richards burst onto the literary scene in 2013 with her award-winning Madness: A Memoir, which described her decade of living with psychosis. She returns now with her first novel,... Read more
A Season on Earth (Gerald Murnane, Text)
Released February 2019
In 1976 William Heinemann published Gerald Murnane’s second novel, A Lifetime on Clouds. In the book’s originally published two parts, the protagonist Adrian Sherd, a student at a Catholic high... Read more
Star-crossed (Minnie Darke, Michael Joseph)
Released March 2019
Star-crossed is a charming rom-com centred on an aspiring journalist whose attempts to influence fate lead to unintended—and at times hilarious—consequences. When Justine Carmichael finally gets a promotion at the... Read more
Yahoo Creek (Tohby Riddle, A&U)
Released March 2019
In this imaginative work, Tohby Riddle delves into the mystery of the yahoo (or the yowie, as it is commonly known today). Reported sightings of these large, hairy beasts were... Read more
Queen Celine (Matt Shanks, Walker Books)
Released February 2019
Matt Shanks’ latest picture book introduces us to Celine Beaufort. Celine lives a fairly ordinary life, doing ordinary things, but sometimes she gets to be the queen of a very... Read more
Mallee Sky (Jodi Toering, illus by Tannya Harricks, Walker Books)
Released February 2019
The Australia of Mallee Sky is a familiar one—wide, red-brown, drought-stricken, unforgiving, yet strikingly beautiful—but never a cliche. The book avoids patronising children, instead welcoming them into a mature literary... Read more
47 Degrees (Justin D’Ath, Puffin)
Released January 2019
Author Justin D’Ath lost his home in Victoria’s Black Saturday bushfires, and the story of that harrowing day forms the basis for his new novel, 47 Degrees. The morning of... Read more
Lottie and Walter (Anna Walker, Picture Puffin)
Released March 2019
Following in the tradition of her previous works Mr Huff and Florence, Anna Walker once again pays tribute to the creativity and resilience of children in this tale of a... Read more
Call Me Evie (J P Pomare, Hachette)
Released January 2019
What do you do when you can’t remember the incident that changed your life? Seventeen-year-old Kate—now using the alias ‘Evie’ to protect her identity—is being held captive in a remote... Read more
Half Moon Lake (Kirsten Alexander, Bantam)
Released January 2019
In July of 1913 Sonny Davenport, the four-year-old son of a prominent family in America’s Deep South, goes missing. The father puts his political ambitions on hold to chase up... Read more
