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Four Respectable Ladies Seek Part-time Husband (Barbara Toner, Bantam)
Released February 2018
It’s 1919, the Great War is over and the Spanish Flu has ended. In rural New South Wales, four women find themselves beset with problems and with no men in... Read more
Hangman (Jack Heath, A&U)
Released January 2018
In the age of the anti-hero, morally ambiguous characters compel readers to empathise with and root for them, despite their troubled natures and character flaws. Enter Timothy Blake, the Hangman,... Read more
The Lebs (Michael Mohammed Ahmad, Hachette)
Released March 2018
Punchbowl Boys High, often dubbed ‘NSW’s most troubled school’, was the subject of a 2016 autobiographical essay by Michael Mohammed Ahmad. Now, that reminiscence of his alma mater has become... Read more
The Lucky Galah (Tracy Sorensen, Picador)
Released March 2018
It is testament to debut author Tracy Sorensen’s talent that, against all odds, choosing to have a galah narrate her novel never becomes gimmicky. Somehow the reader suspends disbelief and... Read more
The Naturalist’s Daughter (Tea Cooper, HQ)
Released January 2018
At the heart of Tea Cooper’s The Naturalist’s Daughter are the stories of two bold, inspirational women connected across history by a great scientific controversy—the classification of the platypus. This... Read more
Spinifex and Sunflowers (Avan Judd Stallard, Fremantle Press)
Released February 2018
This disturbing novel is based on the experiences of its author, who spent three months working at Curtin Immigration Detention Centre in Western Australia. His protagonist, a university dropout and... Read more
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (Heather Morris, Echo)
Released February 2018
This novel is based on an incredible true story of resilience, loss and survival—the result of years of interviews between Heather Morris and Holocaust survivor Ludwig (Lale) Sokolov. The Tattooist... Read more
A Free Flame: Australian Women Writers and Vocation in the Twentieth Century (Ann-Marie Priest, UWA Publishing)
Released February 2018
This book traces the creative vocations of four notable Australian women writers of the mid-20th century, hinging on the notion of writing as an urgent, privately held imperative. Ann-Marie Priest’s... Read more
A Tangled Tale of Tagliatelle (Yves Stening, illus by Nigel Buchanan, PublishCreative Books)
Released December 2017
A Tangled Tale of Tagliatelle is the second instalment in Yves Stening and Nigel Buchanan’s self-published ‘Dinner Detectives’ series, which takes children on the hunt for the origins of specific... Read more
Unearthed (Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner, A&U)
Released December 2017
Unearthed is an explosive action-adventure with a touch of romance set on an alien planet. Earth is a devastated planet where resources are scarce and humans are desperate. When an... Read more
Me Too (Erika Geraerts & Charls Laubscher, illus by Gatsby, Walker Books)
Released February 2018
In this debut picture book, two children dream aloud about the best friend they hope to meet one day. As they describe the many admirable traits of this mysterious someone,... Read more
Initiate: Palace of Fires Book One (Bill Bennett, Penguin)
Released February 2018
Sixteen-year-old Lily lives a pretty normal life with her mum, Angela, on a farm in Northern California—until Angela vanishes. Lily discovers that her mum has been abducted by a secretive... Read more
Between Us (Clare Atkins, Black Inc.)
Released February 2018
Clare Atkins follows up her award-winning debut novel Nona & Me with this moving tale of two young people in Darwin who make a connection, though one of them lives... Read more
Quark’s Academy (Catherine Pelosi, Lothian)
Released February 2018
Once a year the prestigious and mysterious Quark’s Academy admits 15 exceptional young scientists for a week’s study that will culminate in the Best Invention Competition. This year’s batch of... Read more
Border Districts (Gerald Murnane, Giramondo)
Released November 2017
In Border Districts, which is conceived as Gerald Murnane’s last work of fiction, the narrator has moved to a remote town, near the border of a neighbouring state, so that he... Read more
Dissent (Sally Percival Wood, Scribe)
Released December 2017
Sally Percival Wood’s Dissent is a lively and accessible slice of Australian cultural history. Percival Wood revisits the tumultuous 1960s and reveals the extent to which an unlikely and often-forgotten... Read more
A Timeline of Australian Food (Jan O’Connell, NewSouth)
Released December 2017
Jan O’Connell’s A Timeline of Australian Food is a worthy and useful addition to the small but growing canon of Australian food history writing. Spanning 1860 to 2010, the book... Read more
The Woman Who Fooled the World: Belle Gibson’s Cancer Con (Beau Donelly & Nick Toscano, Scribe)
Released December 2017
The now infamous story of how Belle Gibson gave false hope to cancer patients in a global health and wellness scam is a treasure trove of lies and complicit enabling.... Read more
My Life and Other Fictions (Michael Giacometti, Spineless Wonders)
Released December 2017
Bringing together 20 very different stories, My Life and Other Fictions is a bold debut from Michael Giacometti and a unique exercise in experimentation with form and voice. Initially it... Read more
Into the World (Stephanie Parkyn, A&U)
Released December 2017
Inspired by true events in the 18th century, Into the World is the story of Marie-Louise Girardin, an unwed woman who must escape revolutionary France to save the life of... Read more
