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Tissue (Madison Griffiths, Ultimo)
Released July 2023
In 2021, during one of Victoria’s most arduous Covid-19 lockdowns, essayist and podcaster Madison Griffiths underwent the termination of a pregnancy. So begins Tissue, an insightful and perceptive critical analysis... Read more
Ella and Star (Michelle Wanasundera & Nichole Wade, Little Pink Dog)
Released July 2023
The word ‘heartfelt’ is what comes to mind upon closing the pages of Ella and Star. The winning team of Michelle Wanasundera and Nichole Wade, along with creative small press... Read more
The Terrible Event (David Cohen, Transit Lounge)
Released June 2023
The Terrible Event comprises eight accessible, absurdist stories by David Cohen, past winner of the Russell Prize for Humour Writing. Each instalment is a tightly crafted pocket of madness, driven,... Read more
Chinese Fish (Grace Yee, Giramondo)
Released June 2023
Chinese Fish is a brilliant work of genre-bending prose poetry by award-winning poet Grace Yee. Full of subtle poetic turns, Yee’s narrative is an intimate look at a Cantonese family... Read more
Gurril: Storm Bird (Trevor Fourmile, illus by Jingalu, Magabala)
Released June 2023
Gurril: Storm Bird tells the Gimuy Walubara Yidinji (First Nations people from the Cairns area) traditional creation story of the origins of the black cockatoo and its call. Incorrigible young... Read more
Endo Days (Libby Trainor Parker, Wakefield)
Released June 2023
Libby Trainor Parker has written the perfect book adaptation of the cabaret show she performed in her PJs about endometriosis. The vibe? Women have been in pain, and ignored, forever.... Read more
The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies (Alison Goodman, HarperCollins)
Released June 2023
The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies by Alison Goodman is a joyous romp through Regency England that is equally entertaining, revealing, feminist, heartbreaking and humorous. Our protagonist, Lady Augusta, is... Read more
Feast (Emily O’Grady, A&U)
Released June 2023
Like her Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award-winning debut The Yellow House, Emily O’Grady’s Feast is a compelling but often uncomfortable work of literary fiction. In a secluded manor house in the Scottish... Read more
The Interpreter (Brooke Robinson, Harvill Secker)
Released June 2023
Revelle Lee is a court interpreter in London. She spends her days translating the words of victims, criminals and witnesses. It’s her job to inhabit them, wear their skin and... Read more
Sunshine on Vinegar Street (Karen Comer, A&U Children’s)
Released June 2023
Everything in Freya’s world has changed. Her dad has taken a job in Broome for the next 18 months and her mum has a new job in the inner-city Melbourne... Read more
Monsties #1: The Lost Bunny (Zanni Louise & Kyla May, HGCP)
Released June 2023
The first in a new series, Monsties: The Lost Bunny will no doubt be literary candy for its target readership of 5–8-year-olds. The story is a frothy concoction of zany,... Read more
We Need to Talk About Ageing (Melissa Levi, Hachette)
Released June 2023
Melissa Levi is a clinical psychologist who intended to specialise in paediatric medicine. It’s a happy accident that she ended up helping the ageing instead. With We Need to Talk... Read more
The Archipelago of Us (Reneé Pettitt-Schipp, Fremantle Press)
Released June 2023
Originally written as part of Reneé Pettitt-Schipp’s PhD thesis, The Archipelago of Us is a moving travel memoir mixed with a reflective story of trauma and healing. Pettitt-Schipp decided to... Read more
Sad Girl Novel (Pip Finkemeyer, Ultimo)
Released June 2023
When we first meet aspiring writer Kim Mueller, she’s taking a train through Berlin, on her way to see her therapist. She’s wondering if she’s ‘talented or deluded’. She has... Read more
Queen Narelle (Sally Murphy, illus by Simon O’Carrigan, Walker)
Released June 2023
Sally Murphy is one of the best verse novelists in Australian children’s fiction. Her tenderness, lyricism, poetic voice and sensitive handling of troubling themes are what make her verse novels... Read more
Birdie Lights Up the World (Alison McLennan, illus by Lauren Mullinder, EK Books)
Released June 2023
From performer and voiceover artist Alison McLennan comes a story about a penguin who is thought to be the ‘chosen one’. Birdie is convinced she has the unique ability to... Read more
Backyard Footy (Carl Merrison, illus by Samantha Campbell, Lothian)
Released June 2023
Kicking the footy around in your backyard is fun, but playing with mates is even better! Jaru/Kija author Carl Merrison and illustrator Samantha Campbell score big with their lively, cumulative... Read more
Sunday Skating (Andrea Rowe, illus by Hannah Sommerville, HGCP)
Released June 2023
This picture book is as warm and tender as a sunset glow upon a band of friends. Award-winning author and illustrator duo Andrea Rowe and Hannah Sommerville follow the triumph... Read more
Notes on Her Colour (Jennifer Neal, Vintage)
Released June 2023
Gabrielle has inherited the gift of being able to change the colour of her skin from her mother Tallulah, and her mother before her. Yet Gabrielle grows up in a... Read more
Minds of Sand and Light (Kylie Chan, Voyager AU)
Released June 2023
Two rebel journalists get caught up in a conflict between secretive AIs in this new cyberpunk thriller. Minds of Sand and Light is set some 50 years in the future:... Read more
