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The Brothers (S D Hinton, HarperCollins)
Released August 2022
S D Hinton’s debut novel The Brothers is a masterclass in menacing tension. Set on the Victorian south coast, it starts with an isolated house and a series of threatening,... Read more
The Brink (Holden Sheppard, Text)
Released August 2022
In The Brink, schoolies week goes horribly wrong when a group of school leavers find themselves isolated on a remote island along the Western Australian coast. Everyone is trying to... Read more
Everything Feels Like the End of the World (Else Fitzgerald, A&U)
Released August 2022
In Everything Feels Like the End of the World, Else Fitzgerald lays bare our simmering anxieties around an uncertain future. The reader is walked through a speculative Australia transformed by... Read more
Faithless (Alice Nelson, Vintage)
Released August 2022
Alice Nelson’s Faithless is an astonishing novel that unfolds as a love letter from protagonist Cressida to her all-consuming love, Max. In the beginning, Cressida is looking after a young... Read more
Life Lessons for Little Ones: You Are Enough (Jess Sanders, illus by Ocean Hughes, Affirm)
Released August 2022
You are Enough is the first title in a new series, 'Life Lessons for Little Ones', that pairs the award-winning author of Love Your Body and Be Your Own Man,... Read more
The Deadly Daylight (Ash Harrier, Pantera)
Released August 2022
In Ash Harrier’s debut middle-grade novel, The Deadly Daylight, 12-year-old Alice England helps her father dress corpses in the family funeral home. She finds that certain personal objects are ‘resonant’:... Read more
Marlo (Jay Carmichael, Scribe)
Released August 2022
After previous success with Ironbark, a novel that wrestled with the coming of age of a gay man in rural Australia, Jay Carmichael turns his attention once again to queer... Read more
Wild Bush Days (Penny Harrison, illus by Virginia Gray, MidnightSun)
Released August 2022
Wild Bush Days is an illustrated account of two young explorers who go on a journey to find the hiding spot of infamous female outlaw Jessie Hickmans. A real-life historical... Read more
Enclave (Claire G Coleman, Hachette)
Released July 2022
Born of social media algorithms and convenience culture, with a biting critique of modern tribalism, Enclave, Claire G Coleman’s third novel, is Brave New World with every conceit flipped for... Read more
The Shop Train (Josie Wowolla Boyle, illus by Paul Seden, Magabala)
Released July 2022
With The Shop Train, the late Josie Wowolla Boyle offers a small memory-sketch of the days when the Tea and Sugar train travelled weekly across the Nullarbor to supply food... Read more
Grounded (Alisa Bryce, Text)
Released August 2022
Considering that we are such very clever land-based mammals it’s puzzling how little most of us know about soil—upon which we live, from which we (probably) come, and unto which... Read more
The Unbelieved (Vikki Petraitis, A&U)
Released August 2022
Having already collected Allen & Unwin's in-house crime fiction prize, The Unbelieved is set to launch with a splash as Vikki Petraitis gathers her considerable storytelling experience into an impressive... Read more
Hydra (Adriane Howell, Transit Lounge)
Released August 2022
Adriane Howell’s debut novel Hydra is unsettling and dreamlike. In its folds, the strange and unflinching Anja becomes the reader’s friend—because we’re privy to her thoughts, because she tolerates our... Read more
Willa and Woof (Jacqueline Harvey, Puffin)
Released July 2022
Jacqueline Harvey’s new series Willa and Woof follows a smart eight-year-old girl, Willa, and her ‘best four-legged friend’, Woof. In this first instalment, following in the tradition of other spirited... Read more
Rita’s Revenge (Lian Tanner, A&U)
Released July 2022
Rita’s Revenge is the companion book to Lian Tanner’s debut crime book A Clue for Clara (2020), and is set in the same small town of Little Dismal. Rita the... Read more
Women I Know (Katerina Gibson, Scribner)
Released July 2022
A solitary camper at a beach observes the families playing in the surf; a lonely woman laments her fractured relationship with her reclusive teenage son; a young marine biologist privately... Read more
August & Jones (Pip Harry, Lothian)
Released July 2022
Meet Jones and August: Jones’s family have had to sell their farm and relocate to Sydney because of the drought, while August’s quirky personality means he feels isolated both at... Read more
The All of It: A bogan rhapsody (Cadance Bell, Viking)
Released July 2022
Our lives are multiple, our stories of ourselves never-ending, and yet when it comes to being a transgender person, there is this idea that we have one sole identity: trans.... Read more
The Registrar (Neela Janakiramanan, A&U)
Released July 2022
Emma Swann has worked her whole life to get here—and it’s even worse than she imagined. The young doctor has recently been accepted onto the highly competitive orthopaedic surgery program... Read more
Of Marsupials and Men (Alistair Paton, Black Inc.)
Released July 2022
If members of the Acclimatisation Society of Victoria had had their way, monkeys and boa constrictors would have been let loose in the foliage of 19th-century Melbourne. That idea was... Read more
