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Non-Essential Work (Omar Sakr, UQP)
Released April 2023
Omar Sakr’s work is polished to a razor-sharp point in his third poetry collection. As expected, Non-Essential Work contends with notions around identities outside the white and heteronormative. But rather... Read more
The Garden at the End of the World (Cassy Polimeni, illus by Briony Stewart, UQP)
Released April 2023
After Isla discovers a unique seed pod, readers accompany her and her mother to the Global Seed Vault in Norway. The Garden at the End of the World is the... Read more
I Had a Father in Karratha (Annette Trevitt, Upswell)
Released April 2023
When her father dies, Annette Trevitt spends two-and-a-half years organising the detritus of his life in a remote WA mining town. I Had a Father in Karratha is a memoir... Read more
Little Treasure (Chanelle Gosper, illus by Jennifer Goldsmith, Lothian)
Released April 2023
Little Treasure is a beach story, for ages two to five, but it’s so much more than that. A mother and child are at the beach, playing in the sand,... Read more
Dragons of Hallow #1: Spellhound (Lian Tanner, illus by Sally Soweol Han, A&U Children’s)
Released April 2023
Lian Tanner is well known for her middle grade fantasy series, including The Keepers and The Rogues. Her latest is the first in a new series, set in the intriguing... Read more
Big Cat (Jess Racklyeft, A&U Children’s)
Released April 2023
Organised Catherine loves to investigate things, and when she hears rumours about the Big Cat sightings, she is intrigued and sets out to solve the mystery. The Big Cat that... Read more
West Side Honey (Claire Christian, Text)
Released April 2023
Claire Christian’s novel West Side Honey serves up everything you’d want from a bingeable, indulgent rom-com, all the while remaining original and exciting. When she and her ex-husband start a... Read more
Between You and Me (Joanna Horton, Ultimo)
Released April 2023
Numerous authors have invited comparisons to Sally Rooney, and Between You and Me undoubtedly will too. Similar to Frances and Bobbi in Rooney’s breakthrough debut Conversations with Friends, 25-year-old best... Read more
Aphrodite’s Breath (Susan Johnson, A&U)
Released April 2023
Author Susan Johnson, now in her early 60s, is drawn back to a place she travelled to as a young woman: Kythera, the most southern of the Ionian islands and... Read more
Logan’s Big Move (Logan Martin with Jess Black, illus by Shane McGowan, Puffin)
Released April 2023
Freestyle BMX Olympic gold medalist and X Games legend Logan Martin culminates his journey to riding success in this action-packed and inspiring picture book. Co-authored by Jess Black and illustrated... Read more
The Secret Life of You (Kerri Sackville, Pantera)
Released April 2023
Spending time alone splits the room: some prefer it, while some can’t do it. Kerri Sackville suspects that even those of us who can do it need to be better... Read more
Quiet Time with My Seeya (Dinalie Dabarera, A&U Children’s)
Released April 2023
Quiet Time with My Seeya is the debut solo picture book by Dinalie Dabarera, whose previous illustrations in The Cat With The Coloured Tail were nominated for the CBCA Award... Read more
Selfie (Allayne L Webster, Text)
Released April 2023
Tully Sinclair is in eighth grade. She loves art, has a long-time best friend Kira and some complicated family issues to deal with. Dene Walker is a social media influencer... Read more
Grace and Mr Milligan (Caz Goodwin, illus by Pip Kruger, Marshall Cavendish)
Released April 2023
Young Grace, old Mr Milligan from next door and his goat Charlie regularly enjoy spending time together in their gardens and at the nearby beach, happily munching on fruit grown... Read more
Things She Would Have Said Herself (Catherine Therese, Hachette)
Released April 2023
Catherine Therese’s novel Things She Would Have Said Herself is an ambitious undertaking, centring on the life of elderly matriarch Leslie Bird and her family. The novel switches between the... Read more
Crushing (Genevieve Novak, HarperCollins)
Released April 2023
After being unceremoniously dumped by her boyfriend of five years, Marnie finds herself alone for the first time in her adult life. As a self-professed serial girlfriend, the 28-year-old Melburnian... Read more
Gigorou (Sasha Kutabah Sarago, Pantera)
Released March 2023
As women our identity and self-worth is often defined and limited by our understanding of beauty. Gigorou is a reverent and awe-inspiring foray into memoir. It is the personal genre... Read more
Thirst for Salt (Madelaine Lucas, A&U)
Released April 2023
Madelaine Lucas’s debut novel opens with the unnamed female narrator, now 37 years old, recalling a past lover. Twenty-four years old at the time and holidaying with her mother, the... Read more
Philomella and the Impossible Forest (Doris Brett, HGCP)
Released April 2023
Philomella is having a perfectly ordinary terrible day when she stumbles across a door that shouldn’t be there that leads to a library which is, frankly, impossible. Sick of being... Read more
The Half Brother (Christine Keighery, Ultimo)
Released April 2023
Psychological thriller The Half Brother is the first adult novel by Christine Keighery, a prolific author of children’s and young adult books. The novel opens with alternating chapters from the... Read more
