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Untidy Towns (Kate O’Donnell, UQP)
Released October 2017
Seventeen-year-old Adelaide Longley has had enough. After five years of striving for success at her expensive boarding school, she’s done with trying to be the person her teachers and family... Read more
Call of the Reed Warbler (Charles Massy, UQP)
Released September 2017
Farmer and author Charles Massy has been thinking intensely about the environment and our relationship to it for most of his life. Brought up in the industrial farming tradition, with... Read more
The Life to Come (Michelle de Kretser, A&U)
Released October 2017
The Life to Come is Michelle de Kretser’s first novel since her Miles Franklin Literary Award-winning Questions of Travel in 2012, and it affirms her as a writer of great... Read more
Sherlock Holmes: The Australian Casebook (ed by Christopher Sequeira, Echo)
Released November 2017
The stories in this collection of fan fiction commissioned by Sherlock Holmes aficionado Christopher Sequeira come from writers both emerging and established (better known names include Kerry Greenwood, Meg Keneally... Read more
An Activist Life (Christine Milne, UQP)
Released November 2017
Rather than write a straight biography, former Australian Greens leader Christine Milne has chosen ‘objects’ to illustrate her life, her ideas and her actions. Her father’s gun represents old-fashion farm... Read more
Mirror Sydney: An Atlas of Reflections (Vanessa Berry, Giramondo)
Released October 2017
Every city has its ghost lines, those mysterious details that underpin the contemporary physicality of a place, the memories that are faded but visible to anyone with a keen eye... Read more
Writers on Writers: On John Marsden | On Kate Jennings (Alice Pung | Erik Jensen, Black Inc.)
Released October 2017
Australian writers are being honoured in a new essay series called ‘Writers on Writers’, published by Black Inc. in association with the University of Melbourne and the State Library of... Read more
Danny Blue’s Really Excellent Dream (Max Landrak, Lothian)
Released October 2017
Max Landrak’s first children’s book is a delight. A fanciful tale of a boy who unexpectedly dreams of ‘not-blue’ in a world that consists only of blue, it functions equally... Read more
M is for Mutiny! History by Alphabet (John Dickson, illus by Bern Emmerichs, Berbay)
Released November 2017
An alphabet book designed specifically for the middle-primary reader, M is for Mutiny! is a brilliant crash course in Australian history for those interested in learning more about significant events... Read more
Papa Sky (Jane Jolly, illus by Sally Heinrich, MidnightSun)
Released October 2017
Papa Sky is an educational picture book from the creative team behind CBCA Honour Book One Step at a Time. Papa Sky belongs where the earth meets the sky. When... Read more
Tintinnabula (Margo Lanagan, illus by Rovina Cai, Little Hare)
Released October 2017
Acclaimed for her short stories and novels, Margo Lanagan’s latest creation Tintinnabula is a picture book that explores light and shade. Through a poetic narrative, the story looks at the... Read more
The Very Noisy Baby (Alison Lester, Affirm)
Released November 2017
Alison Lester never disappoints. She is a much-loved, award-winning author and illustrator with many successful books to her name. This delightful book is no exception. It has all the trademarks... Read more
The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte Mettlestone (Jaclyn Moriarty, A&U)
Released November 2017
As a baby, Bronte Mettlestone was left in the lobby of her Aunt Isabelle’s building by her parents, before they set off to have adventures. When she is 10, Bronte... Read more
Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow Book One (Jessica Townsend, Lothian)
Released October 2017
Ten-year-old Morrigan Crow was born on Eventide and, like other children born on this day, is cursed to die at midnight on her 11th birthday. Her family are distant and... Read more
Tales from a Tall Forest (Shaun Micallef, illus by Jonathan Bentley, Hardie Grant Egmont)
Released October 2017
Shaun Micallef’s first book for children takes a large dose of fairytale ingredients, flavours them with a dash of nursery rhyme and a pinch of Greek mythology, and bakes them... Read more
Bring it On!: Play Like a Girl Book One (Jo Stanley, Five Mile)
Released September 2017
Finally, a series about our national sport that stars girls! Jo Stanley has combined her love of footy and empowering women in the new ‘Play Like a Girl’ series, with... Read more
Bertha and Bear (Christine Sharp, UQP)
Released September 2017
One little bee’s brave expedition through a storm to find somewhere safe to build a new hive is the focus of Christine Sharp’s third picture book Bertha and Bear. The... Read more
Beautiful Mess (Claire Christian, Text)
Released September 2017
Claire Christian’s 2016 Text Prize-winning book is a beautifully written YA novel that confidently navigates the murky waters of grief and male-female friendship. Chapters are voiced in turn by Ava,... Read more
A Semi-definitive List of Worst Nightmares (Krystal Sutherland, Penguin)
Released September 2017
This is a touching, hilarious and relatable book for older teens about depression, anxiety, facing your fears and learning to accept help when you need it most. Seventeen-year-old Esther’s life... Read more
The Missing Ace: The Mysterious World of Cosentino Book One (Cosentino & Jack Heath, illus by James Hart, Scholastic)
Released September 2017
Cosentino the Grand Illusionist runs the beloved Copperpot Theatre in Coppertown, a place in Magicland where the evil King has banned magic. Cos is working on his latest trick—escaping from... Read more
