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Catching Teller Crow (Ambelin and Ezekiel Kwaymullina, A&U)
Released September 2018
Siblings Ambelin and Ezekiel Kwaymullina have teamed up again on this distinctly Australian hybrid YA novel that blends thriller, crime and ghost story elements. Set in contemporary times, the book... Read more
Mother of Invention (ed by Rivqa Rafael & Tansy Rayner Roberts, Twelfth Planet Press)
Released September 2018
Artificial intelligence (AI) and its physical manifestation, the robot, are science-fiction perennials, and they’re ideas that have always resonated beyond just fiction. In 2016, Microsoft gave its learning chat bot,... Read more
Milk Teeth (Rae White, UQP)
Released September 2018
Rae White’s striking debut poetry collection, Milk Teeth, explores gender, identity and the body with an admirably light touch. The manuscript, which won the 2017 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, defies... Read more
No Place Like Home: Repairing Australia’s Housing Crisis (Peter Mares, Text)
Released September 2018
Why are Australia’s property prices so high? Is it a shortage of supply? The tax system rewarding speculation? In No Place Like Home, writer and journalist Peter Mares gives a... Read more
Man Out of Time (Stephanie Bishop, Hachette)
Released September 2018
In September 2001, Stella Gilman’s father, Leon, wanders the streets of a coastal city, armed with his camera, arbitrarily snapping photographs. His walkabout seems purposeless; his thoughts, fragmented. When the... Read more
The Helpline (Katherine Collette, Text)
Released September 2018
Germaine Johnson is an insurance probability outcomes mathematician with a burning passion for Sudoku championships. More comfortable with calculus and polynomials than people, the only job she can get post-retrenchment... Read more
Leaf Stone Beetle (Ursula Dubosarsky, illus by Gaye Chapman, Dirt Lane Press)
Released August 2018
This gentle fable presents a delicate perspective on the cyclical patterns of life in the natural world, where seasons and the weather can both offer adventure and prompt quiet philosophical... Read more
Off the Track (Cristy Burne, illus by Amanda Burnett, Fremantle Press)
Released August 2018
Cristy Burne’s latest work of adventure fiction takes us off the beaten track and deep into the Australian bush. Harry isn’t thrilled about spending a weekend hiking with his mum,... Read more
The Dog with Seven Names (Dianne Wolfer, Penguin)
Released July 2018
This book for middle readers uses the experiences of a dog with many owners to tell stories of Australia during wartime. While her family watches the running of the 1939... Read more
The Rapids: Ways of Looking at Mania (Sam Twyford-Moore, NewSouth)
Released August 2018
Sam Twyford-Moore’s The Rapids is a fascinating exploration of the fragility of the mind, states of mania and how mental ill-health is treated in art and popular culture. Having been... Read more
The Eastern Curlew (Harry Saddler, Affirm Press)
Released August 2018
All birds are miracles, but migratory shorebirds are perhaps the most wondrous of all. Author Harry Saddler is fascinated by the Eastern Curlews that chase summer across the hemispheres, breeding... Read more
No-Country Woman: A Memoir of Not Belonging (Zoya Patel, Hachette)
Released August 2018
In her razor-sharp debut, No-Country Woman: A Memoir of Not Belonging, Fijian-Indian-Australian writer Zoya Patel charts the chasm that results from juggling three cultures at once, never completely belonging to... Read more
The Honourable Thief (Meaghan Wilson Anastasios, Macmillan)
Released August 2018
Set in Crete and Turkey in the years around World War II, The Honourable Thief centres on the adventures and misfortunes of Benedict Hitchens, an archaeologist and reluctant dealer of... Read more
I Am Out with Lanterns (Emily Gale, Random House)
Released August 2018
I Am Out with Lanterns is nuanced, complex and thoroughly readable. Told from multiple perspectives, it follows a kaleidoscope of characters as it explores community, connections, and the desire to... Read more
After the Lights Go Out (Lili Wilkinson, A&U)
Released August 2018
Emergency drills, bug-out bags, a secret underground bunker with a year’s supply of food—life’s a little different when your dad’s a doomsday prepper. Seventeen-year-old Pru Palmer and her two younger... Read more
Zeroes and Ones (Cristy Burne, Xoum)
Released August 2018
Zeroes and Ones is a history of the most exciting milestones in computing, with a focus on individual inventors and innovators. It spans from Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine and Ada... Read more
A Song Only I Can Hear (Barry Jonsberg, A&U)
Released July 2018
Rob Fitzgerald is 13 years old, painfully shy, prone to panic attacks, and desperately, disgustingly in love for the very first time. Rob begins receiving texts from an unknown phone... Read more
Jane Doe and the Cradle of All Worlds (Jeremy Lachlan, Hardie Grant Egmont)
Released August 2018
Immediately exciting and inventive, this is a thrilling story set in a universe made up of multiple worlds. Twelve years ago, Jane and her father arrived at the island of... Read more
Wisp: A Story of Hope (Zana Fraillon, illus by Grahame Baker Smith, Lothian)
Released August 2018
There have been some beautiful, compassionate picture books that feature the plight of refugees and their search for a peaceful life away from war and poverty. Joining these is this... Read more
Sonam and the Silence (Eddie Ayres, illus by Ronak Taher, A&U)
Released August 2018
A fable about a young girl in Kabul during the Taliban occupation hardly sounds like the stuff of picture books so Sonam and the Silence was warily approached. However, fear... Read more
