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Big World, Tiny World: Forest (Jess Racklyeft, Affirm)
Released February 2022
Jess Racklyeft will already be a familiar name to readers of picture books, and Big World, Tiny World: Forest is just as lovely as her earlier works. The book begins with a... Read more
The Grass Hotel (Craig Sherborne, Text)
Released February 2022
A woman suffering from dementia speaks to her son in her own idiosyncratic, damaged voice—her ‘wiring’ is gone. The mother-narrator's son is introverted and perhaps on the autism spectrum: he... Read more
The Furies (Mandy Beaumont, Hachette)
Released February 2022
A woman in a small Australian town is haunted. Death is all around her: she is still grieving her murdered sister, Mallory, while the spectre of her mother’s arrest and... Read more
South Flows the Pearl (Mavis Gock Yen, ed by Siaoman Yen & Richard Horsburgh, SUP)
Released February 2022
Over the 80s and 90s, Mavis Gock Yen (1916–2008) collected the stories of her contemporaries—Australian Chinese people whose memories and experiences spanned the late 1800s through to almost the end... Read more
The Cane (Maryrose Cuskelly, A&U)
Released February 2022
Award-winning nonfiction writer Maryrose Cuskelly’s first leap into fiction is set in a small Australian town where an unsolved crime turns the community upside down. It’s the 1970s and it... Read more
Xavier in the Meantime (Kate Gordon, Riveted Press)
Released February 2022
Xavier in the Meantime is the new companion novel to Kate Gordon’s CBCA award-winning Aster’s Good, Right Things. Focusing this time on Xavier, Aster’s best friend, the story takes a sensitive but... Read more
The Very Last List of Vivian Walker (Megan Albany, Hachette)
Released February 2022
This quiet but compelling novel follows the very ordinary path of an ordinary woman completing the ordinary business of dying. However, it is in this ordinariness that the heart of... Read more
A Witness of Fact (Drew Rooke, Scribe)
Released February 2022
A Witness of Fact examines the controversial public life of South Australia's former chief forensic pathologist Dr Colin Manock, and his problematic role in the state's criminal justice system. Manock might... Read more
Leo and Mina Fink: For the greater good (Margaret Taft, Monash Publishing)
Released February 2022
In this biography of the working lives of an impressive 20th-century power couple, the competing forces of hope and catastrophe are clearly at work. Historian Margaret Taft has expertly detailed... Read more
In an Artist’s Garden (Claire Orrell, Thames & Hudson)
Released February 2022
Like all good seek-and-find books, In an Artist’s Garden is a bit addictive regardless of the reader’s age, though is perhaps best suited to a middle/upper primary audience; the objects are simple... Read more
Ouch! Tales of Gravity (Kate Simpson, illus by Andy Hardiman, A&U)
Released February 2022
How do you explain something as complicated as gravity to a young audience (five-year-olds and above)? Well, humour certainly helps. The narrator in Ouch! Tales of Gravity is knowledgeable and... Read more
Cold Enough for Snow (Jessica Au, Giramondo)
Released February 2022
Cold Enough for Snow is Jessica Au’s second novel and the winner of Giramondo Publishing, Fitzcarraldo Editions and New Directions’ inaugural Novel Prize. The book’s narrator travels with her Hong... Read more
This is Me! (Sally Morgan, Magabala)
Released February 2022
Written and illustrated by well-loved author Sally Morgan, This is Me is a simple and colourful board book for very young children. Morgan’s illustration style features simple shapes and patterns... Read more
Found, Wanting (Natasha Sholl, Ultimo Press)
Released February 2022
Beginning with a sudden death, Natasha Sholl’s memoir sets us up to expect a traditional grief narrative, ending with the author having processed the loss, found new meaning in their... Read more
Tiny Wonders (Sally Soweol Han, UQP)
Released February 2022
This story has been told plenty of times but it’s one that is always worth listening to: the idea that our world has become so busy, so grey, so predictable,... Read more
The Competition (Katherine Collette, Text)
Released February 2022
When 21-year-old Frances’s parents give her the ultimatum to find some direction in her life or find herself a new place to live, she decides to sign up for the... Read more
Delia Akeley and the Monkey (Iain McCalman, Upswell)
Released February 2022
On an African hunting expedition in 1909, an American woman named Delia Akeley captured a baby vervet monkey to settle an argument. It was a casual act that changed both... Read more
The Riddle of Tanglewood Manor (Tracey Hawkins, Storytorch)
Released February 2022
The Riddle of Tanglewood Manor is a new younger readers novel from real-life detective-turned-children’s author Tracey Hawkins. When Sam and Harry’s parents tell them they're moving, it sounds like an... Read more
Twelve Summers (Adam Zwar, Hachette)
Released December 2021
Twelve Summers is a memoir by actor and writer Adam Zwar, structured around the retelling of several memorable performances by the Australian men’s cricket team during the author’s formative years.... Read more
The Beautiful Words (Vanessa McCausland, HarperCollins)
Released December 2021
Sylvie is a lover of words who lives a quiet and solitary life after an accident as a teenager robbed her of her memories. When her best friend from that... Read more
