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The Other Mother (Kelly Chandler, Affirm)
Released April 2017
When Kelly met Pete, it was easy, straightforward and just what she’d been looking for. Negotiating where she fitted into his life with two kids under six, however, would prove... Read more
Stop Fixing Women: Why Building Fairer Workplaces is Everybody’s Business (Catherine Fox, NewSouth)
Released April 2017
Catherine Fox’s new book explores the longstanding issue of gender imbalance in the workplace, interrogating ingrained myths and assumptions about why this problem persists. She looks at what she terms... Read more
Things That Helped (Jessica Friedmann, Scribe)
Released April 2017
Canberra-based writer Jessica Friedmann makes an impressive debut with her essay collection Things That Helped. Having lived with depression her entire life, Friedmann has learnt to find comfort in cherished... Read more
A Writing Life: Helen Garner and Her Work (Bernadette Brennan, Text)
Released April 2017
I don’t think there has been a more significant writer in my bookselling life than Helen Garner—Monkey Grip was published in 1977, the year I began selling books. Every work... Read more
Don’t Wake the Dingo (Sally Morgan, illus by Sarah Boese, Scholastic)
Released April 2017
The rhythmic text, with frequent alliteration, makes this story perfect for reading aloud at bedtime. The dingo is asleep in a dim, dry cave, which is warm and comfortable. He’s... Read more
The Beast of Hushing Wood (Gabrielle Wang, Puffin)
Released April 2017
Ziggy Truegood isn’t looking forward to turning 12, and with a very good reason: every night for the past month she has dreamt she will drown on her birthday. With... Read more
The Blue Cat (Ursula Dubosarsky, A&U)
Released April 2017
Slow, dreamlike and meandering, The Blue Cat is a glimpse into life in wartime Australia. Set in Sydney in 1942, it follows Columba in her adventures with her force-of-nature best... Read more
Jack of Spades (Sophie Masson, Eagle Books)
Released April 2017
Prolific writer Sophie Masson’s latest book is a young-adult historical fiction, set in Europe in 1910. The book’s title refers to a card sent to 16-year-old English girl, Linda, from... Read more
Mammoth Mistake: Starring Olive Black Book One (Alex Miles, illus by Maude Guesne, Affirm Press)
Released April 2017
Mammoth Mistake is the first book in a new series by author Alex Miles, who, among other things, has written for the hugely successful ‘Zac Power’ series. Olive Black is... Read more
Sci-Fi Junior High (John Martin & Scott Seegert, Koala Books)
Released April 2017
As the son of two supergeniuses, Kelvin Klosmo has Mighty Mega Supergenius-sized shoes to fill … The only trouble is his supergeniusness hasn’t quite kicked in yet. When Kelvin’s parents... Read more
Night Swimming (Steph Bowe, Text)
Released April 2017
Kirby Arrow and her best friend Clancy Lee are the only two 17-year-olds in their tiny town. Clancy wants to leave as soon as possible, but Kirby is determined to... Read more
Remind Me How This Ends (Gabrielle Tozer, HarperCollins)
Released April 2017
In Remind Me How This Ends, the author of The Intern, Gabrielle Tozer, swaps the high-pressure world of the fashion industry for a quieter and more introspective story about love,... Read more
The Secret Science of Magic (Melissa Keil, HGE)
Released April 2017
Melissa Keil has established herself as a powerful new voice in contemporary YA after winning the Ampersand Prize for her first novel Life in Outer Space and an Inky shortlisting... Read more
The Silent Invasion (James Bradley, Pan)
Released April 2017
Callie was six when the Change came to earth. She’s 14 now, and the world’s a different place. The Change, a mysterious illness spread by alien seedpods, has thrown humanity... Read more
The Things We Promise (J C Burke, A&U)
Released March 2017
Gemma can’t wait for her brother Billy to return from New York. An up-and-coming hair and make-up artist, Billy has promised to help Gemma get ready for her school formal,... Read more
Frogkisser! (Garth Nix, A&U)
Released March 2017
Princess Anya, second in line to the throne, lives with her childish, spoilt older sister Princess Morven, her stepmother and her step-stepfather, Evil Socrerer Duke Rikard (it’s far less complicated... Read more
The Eleventh Hour: Agent Nomad Book One (Skye Melki-Wegner, Random House)
Released March 2017
The Eleventh Hour kicks off the ‘Agent Nomad’ series by Skye Melki-Wegner, author of ‘Chasing the Valley’. It follows 15-year-old protagonist Natalie Palladino as she discovers a world she thought... Read more
Harry Kruize, Born to Lose (Paul Collins, Ford Street)
Released March 2017
Harry feels like a born loser: his dad walked out of his life and never looked back, the school bully has Harry squarely in his sights, and his sessions with... Read more
Shearing Time (Allison Paterson, illus by Shane McGrath, Big Sky Publishing)
Released March 2017
Though shearing is engrained in Australian mythology, chances are that most children aren’t familiar with the practice of removing a woolly coat from its owner. Allison Paterson’s book tries, with... Read more
Mopoke (Philip Bunting, Scholastic)
Released February 2017
‘This is a mopoke’ is the opening line of a new picture book that stars the Bookbook Owl. Extremely common around Australia, this quiet bird keeps to itself. Or at... Read more
