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Sunlight and Seaweed: An Argument for How to Feed, Power and Clean Up the World (Tim Flannery, Text)
Released August 2017
It is difficult to overstate the importance of this concise, convincingly argued view of our world’s prospects for its survival and improvement over the next 33 years (ie to 2050).... Read more
It’s Alive!: Artificial Intelligence from the Logic Piano to Killer Robots (Toby Walsh, LTUP)
Released August 2017
The human brain performs all its wondrous tasks on a mere 20 watts of power. By contrast, the world’s most sophisticated computer, IBM’s Watson, uses 80,000 watts. Will computers ever... Read more
Cold War Games (Harry Blutstein, Echo)
Released August 2017
The first Olympic Games held in the Southern Hemisphere occurred in Melbourne in 1956, just as the Cold War was gaining momentum, and the same year that Soviet Russia invaded... Read more
Pulse Points (Jennifer Down, Text)
Released August 2017
A woman makes a pilgrimage to a forest in Japan to honour her dead brother; a group of young men are out on the prowl in suburban Australia; two siblings... Read more
Lovesick (Jean Flynn, XO Romance)
Released August 2017
Beth Hampson is cruising along with an okay job, sharing a flat with her sister in Melbourne and crushing on one of the doctors at work. She’s not desperate for... Read more
The Art of Navigation (Rose Michael, UWAP)
Released August 2017
Beginning with a wild teenage night in 1987, Rose Michael’s The Art of Navigation quickly confounds the expectations created by its Australian gothic beginning. Despite being wise beyond her years,... Read more
The Inaugural Meeting of the Fairvale Ladies Book Club (Sophie Green, Hachette)
Released August 2017
Sophie Green’s novel The Inaugural Meeting of the Fairvale Ladies Book Club is an enjoyable, if predictable, examination of how women’s friendships and indeed good reading can overcome the darkest... Read more
The Undercurrent (Paula Weston, Text)
Released August 2017
Jules De Marchi just wants to live a normal life—but it’s a bit hard when there is an electrical current running beneath her skin that she can’t entirely control. She... Read more
Gap Year in Ghost Town (Michael Pryor, A&U)
Released August 2017
Anton is just a regular 18-year-old guy taking a gap year. He’s working at his dad’s second-hand bookshop, spending time with his best friend Bec, and getting some experience in... Read more
In the Dark Spaces (Cally Black, Hardie Grant Egmont)
Released August 2017
All Tamara wants is a safe space to live with her aunt and baby cousin, a place where she doesn’t have to hide and where they can talk louder than... Read more
The Shop at Hoopers Bend (Emily Rodda, HarperCollins)
Released August 2017
Emily Rodda is a household name in children’s literature. While her younger fans will be familiar with her fantasy realms, her new book has more in common with her earlier... Read more
Lintang and the Pirate Queen (Tamara Moss, Random House)
Released August 2017
Lintang lives in a world where creatures known as ‘mythies’ cause mayhem. Her home, the island of Desa, is protected by a sea monster, and Lintang yearns to travel out... Read more
Patty Hits the Court: Game Day Book One (Patty Mills & Jared Thomas, illus by Nahum Ziersch)
Released August 2017
Patty Hits the Court, the first instalment in the ‘Game Day’ series, is the latest in a tradition of sports stars writing for the junior crowd—this time it’s San Antonio... Read more
Sarah and the Steep Slope (Danny Parker, illus by Matt Ottley, Little Hare)
Released August 2017
Sarah and the Steep Slope is a new picture book from the creative duo behind Tree and Parachute. Sarah wakes up one day to find a slope trapping her in... Read more
Fluke (Lesley Gibbes, illus by Michelle Dawson, Working Title Press)
Released August 2017
This new picture book by Lesley Gibbes, author of CBCA Honour Book Scary Night, is based on the true story of a southern right whale who gave birth to her... Read more
Watching Out (Julian Burnside, Scribe)
Released August 2017
Julian Burnside is well known to those who follow refugee policy and human rights issues in Australia. In Watching Out, a successor to the earlier volume Watching Brief, Burnside examines... Read more
Whipbird (Robert Drewe, Viking)
Released August 2017
What better set-up than a huge family gathering to dissect attitudes, skewer pretensions and tell lots of stories? On a hot November weekend at his newly acquired vineyard near Ballarat,... Read more
Taboo (Kim Scott, Picador)
Released August 2017
Despite a bracingly strange start—a dead narrator speaks of when ‘we lifted ourselves from the riverbed and went back up the hill into town’; a skeleton of wood and stone... Read more
On the Java Ridge (Jock Serong, Text)
Released August 2017
Two boats on Indonesian waters: one carrying Australian surf tourists, the other filled with asylum seekers. In Canberra, the Minister for Immigration announces a new policy to outsource responsibility for... Read more
The Lone Child (Anna George, Viking)
Released August 2017
Away from the city and the lover who left her when she was eight months pregnant, Neve Ayres spends her days alone with her newborn son in the Victorian coastal... Read more
