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Love-shy (Lilli Wilkinson, A&U)
Released April 2012
YA author Lili Wilkinson is well known for her insightful views into the teenage mind, with books such as The (Not Quite) Perfect Boyfriend and Pink. Love-shy is the next... Read more
Love Notes from Vinegar House (Karen Tayleur, Walker Books)
Released April 2012
Family secrets. A cursed house. Things that go bump in the night ... Freya Kramer doesn’t believe in ghosts. Not really. But spending her holidays at Vinegar House might just... Read more
Losing It (Julia Lawrinson, Penguin)
Released April 2012
Award-winning YA novelist Julia Lawrinson’s latest book, Losing It, is a sassy coming-of-age tale with a uniquely Australian twist: in a bid to preserve their sexual dignity and avoid the... Read more
The Industry: The Industry Book 1 (Rose Foster, HarperCollins)
Released April 2012
Fans of ‘The Hunger Games’ will lap up this debut YA trilogy from young Melbourne author Rose Foster. Kirra Hayward, 16, is her school’s top maths student. When she stumbles... Read more
I’ll Tell You Mine (Pip Harry, UQP)
Released April 2012
Yate Elliot has a secret—an even darker side to her already Goth persona—that has landed her in boarding school. Bound by the rules and restrictions of her new life, she... Read more
Grace beside Me (Sue McPherson, Magabala)
Released April 2012
One of the winners of the inaugural black & write! kuril dhagun Indigenous Writing Fellowship, Grace beside Me is a YA debut that is simply written but affecting nonetheless. After... Read more
A Confusion of Princes (Garth Nix, A&U)
Released April 2012
Khemri is a prince of the empire, which governs the staggeringly huge population of humanity scattered across the galaxy. Taken from their parents as children and equipped with the ultimate... Read more
The Children of the King (Sonya Hartnett, Viking)
Released April 2012
The Children of the King challenges stereotypes of war from the first page, which opens, not with a sombre and terror-filled London, but with a lively household full of love... Read more
A Boy Like Me (Libby Hathorn, illus by Bruce Whatley, ABC Books)
Released May 2012
Libby Hathorn and Bruce Whatley have teamed up to tackle very difficult subject matter in an inventive and evocative way in A Boy Like Me. We see the world through... Read more
‘Andy Roid’ series (Felice Arena, Puffin): Andy Roid and the Superhero Secret and Andy Roid and the Field Trip Terror
Released April 2012
Andy Reid always thought his parents were bakers. He was wrong, as he discovers after a horrifying accident. His parents are actually scientists working on secret military technologies for the... Read more
10 Futures (Michael Pryor, Woolshed Press)
Released April 2012
Sam and Tara are best friends. Sam has an artistic bent and loves working with his hands, while Tara is passionate and driven by social justice. Across the 21st century... Read more
A Youth Not Wasted (Ian Parkes, HarperCollins)
Released April 2012
In 1951 at the age of 16, Ian Parkes decided to leave his Perth home to work on a sheep station. For the next few years he was a stockman... Read more
One Way or Another (Nikki McWatters, Black Inc.)
Released April 2012
In her Gold Coast home in 1981, with the aid of a stuffed rabbit named Andy Gibb and numerous Countdown viewings, 15-year-old Nikki McWatters connects her ever-consuming lust with rock... Read more
The Office: A Hardworking History (Gideon Haigh, Miegunyah Press)
Released May 2012
We have had histories of salt, porcelain and even double-entry bookkeeping—so why not the office? It is an integral part of many people’s lives and yet we know so little... Read more
A History of Books (Gerald Murnane, Giramondo)
Released May 2012
A History of Books is in many ways a continuation of the musings of Gerald Murnane’s 2009 book Barley Patch. It’s a safe prediction that A History of Books will... Read more
A Cook’s Life (Stephanie Alexander, Lantern)
Released April 2012
For many Australians, Stephanie Alexander is a household name synonymous with her bestselling foodie's bible, The Cook’s Companion. In her long and distinguished career, she has been an outspoken champion... Read more
Behind the Shock Machine (Gina Perry, Scribe)
Released May 2012
In 1961, Stanley Milgram, an ambitious 27-year-old associate professor of psychology at Yale University, conducted a series of controversial experiments designed to test the limits of obedience. He recruited over... Read more
The Weight of a Human Heart (Ryan O’Neill, Black Inc.)
Released May 2012
Despite the present-day profusion of literary magazines and outstanding short-story collections, the 21st century does not seem to be as hospitable to short-story writers as the 19th and 20th centuries... Read more
We All Fall Down (Peter Barry, Transit Lounge)
Released May 2012
We All Fall Down is the second novel from Peter Barry, author of I Hate Martin Amis et al. Where Amis focussed on the literary world, We All Fall Down... Read more
Secrets of the Tides (Hannah Richell, Little, Brown)
Released May 2012
The Tide family has fallen apart. It’s been 10 years since a sudden tragedy transformed the lives of Helen, Richard, Dora and Cassie, but no-one has been able to move... Read more
