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Avalanche: A Love Story (Julia Leigh, Hamish Hamilton)
Released May 2016
Author and director Julia Leigh began IVF treatment at 38, knowing that the odds were stacked against her yet still hoping that she would be ‘one of the lucky ones’.... Read more
Captain Jimmy Cook Discovers Third Grade (Kate and Jol Temple, illus by Jon Foye, A&U)
Released May 2016
Jimmy Cook is absolutely certain he is related to Captain James Cook. During History Week at school, Jimmy begins writing a Captain’s Log (not a diary, because those are for... Read more
I Just Couldn’t Wait to Meet You (Kate Ritchie, illus by Hannah Sommerville, Random House)
Released April 2016
This warm-hearted picture book from former Home and Away actor Kate Ritchie captures the anticipation of pregnancy and all the fun of preparing for the new baby. With a text... Read more
Incredibilia (Libby Hathorn, illus by Gaye Chapman, Little Hare)
Released May 2016
Little Georgie is the youngest and she’s frequently forgotten by the other children Max and Harriet who are otherwise occupied with their own play. Little Georgie is not deterred though,... Read more
Smile / Cry (Tania McCartney, illus by Jess Racklyeft, EK Books)
Released April 2016
Billed as a ‘beginner’s book of feelings’, this flip-over picture book is cleverly designed to be read from either the ‘Smile’ or the ‘Cry’ cover first. It doesn’t matter which... Read more
Milo (Tohby Riddle, A&U)
Released April 2016
The latest picture book from Tohby Riddle is all about Milo, a dog who ‘lived in a solid kennel in an okay part of town and had few complaints’. Milo... Read more
Gary (Leila Rudge, Walker Books)
Released May 2016
Gary the pigeon has wanderlust. His scrapbook is filled with mementos from everywhere, yet he has travelled nowhere. Unlike his fellow racing pigeons, Gary can’t fly. But one day he... Read more
Rockhopping (Trace Balla, A&U)
Released April 2016
Clancy and his Uncle Egg, the heroes of Trace Balla’s Rivertime, are on a climbing adventure through Victoria’s Grampians. Their six-day trip is full of excitement, with some hairy situations... Read more
Chook Doolan: Rules are Rules: Book One (James Roy, illus by Lucinda Gifford, Walker Books)
Released May 2016
Chook Doolan: Rules are Rules kicks off James Roy’s new ‘Chook Doolan’ series, which features lead character Simon ‘Chook’ Doolan—a nervous boy who wishes he could be much braver. Chook... Read more
Special (Georgia Blain, Random House)
Released April 2016
Seventeen-year-old Fern Marlow always thought she was one of the lucky ones—not just lucky, but special. She’s a Lotto Girl: before she was born, her parents won the chance to... Read more
Dreaming the Enemy (David Metzenthen, A&U)
Released April 2016
Governments randomly selecting young people, training them to fight and then sending them off to kill is an age-old YA trope. So when the protagonist in David Metzenthen’s novel, Johnny... Read more
The Pain, My Mother, Sir Tiffy, Cyber Boy and Me (Michael Gerard Bauer, Omnibus)
Released May 2016
Michael Gerard Bauer returns to writing for young adults with a story about the rollercoaster nature of life that every individual experiences—the moments of happiness and sadness, the unexpected surprises... Read more
The Secrets We Keep (Nova Weetman, UQP)
Released April 2016
Eleven-year-old Clem Timmins never thought her life could change so suddenly. After a house fire destroyed all her possessions and took her mother’s life, Clem and her dad have moved... Read more
The Special Ones (Em Bailey, HGE)
Released April 2016
Four teens are prisoners on an Amish-style estate, forced to discard their true identities to play the roles that keep their online viewers fascinated. Their captor, the mysterious he, monitors... Read more
Between a Wolf and a Dog (Georgia Blain, Scribe)
Released April 2016
Georgia Blain’s Between a Wolf and a Dog explores the intricacies of modern family life with the emotional veracity you might expect of a book with a therapist as a... Read more
An Isolated Incident (Emily Maguire, Picador)
Released April 2016
There has been a proliferation of pretty-dead-girl thrillers in the past few years and it shows no sign of letting up. But don’t let the trend fool you into thinking... Read more
A Kiss from Mr Fitzgerald (Natasha Lester, Hachette)
Released April 2016
It’s 1920s New York. Evelyn Lockhart has moved to Manhattan to chase her dream of studying at Columbia University and becoming one of the first female doctors in America. In... Read more
The Last Painting of Sara de Vos (Dominic Smith, A&U)
Released May 2016
It’s the late 1950s and a young Australian post-grad student, Ellie Shipley, agrees to make a copy of a little known work by the 17th-century Dutch painter Sara De Vos.... Read more
Our Tiny, Useless Hearts (Toni Jordan, Text)
Released May 2016
Following the romantic capering of Fall Girl and the historically set Nine Days, Toni Jordan’s Our Tiny, Useless Hearts is a highly entertaining romp through the complexities of modern relationships.... Read more
The Secret Recipe for Second Chances (J D Barrett, Hachette)
Released April 2016
As Lucy’s philandering husband picks his teeth with a fish-bone pulled from a beautifully prepared roasted snapper stuffed with kaffir lime, she decides it’s finally time to leave him. Searching... Read more
